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NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterAnna Trindade FalcãoMultiwavelength astrophysicist · Black-hole winds · AGN feedback
Compton-Thick Active Galactic Nuclei
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Compton-Thick Active Galactic Nuclei

I use resolved Fe K emission and broadband X-ray spectroscopy to probe heavily obscured accretion and circumnuclear structure.

Chandra · NuSTAR · Swift · XMM-NewtonCompton-Thick AGNImage source: NASA · SOFIA · Lynette Cook ↗Supporting publication ↗

Scientific questions

Questions guiding this work

  1. 01

    How is X-ray-reprocessing material distributed around a heavily obscured nucleus?

  2. 02

    What can resolved Fe K emission reveal about fast outflows and compact accretion structures?

  3. 03

    How can nuclear emission be separated from extended circumnuclear components?

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