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# NuSTAR J033202-2746.8 : direct constraints on the Compton reflection in a heavily obscured quasar at z ≈ 2.

Del Moro, A. and Mullaney, J.R. and Alexander, D.M. and Comastri, A. and Bauer, F.E. and Treister, E. and Stern, D. and Civano, F. and Ranalli, P. and Vignali, C. and Aird, J.A. and Ballantyne, D.R. and Baloković, M. and Boggs, S.E. and Brandt, W.N. and Christensen, F.E. and Craig, W.W. and Gandhi, P. and Gilli, R. and Hailey, C.J. and Harrison, F.A. and Hickox, R.C. and LaMassa, S.M. and Lansbury, G.B. and Luo, B. and Puccetti, S. and Urry, C.M. and Zhang, W.W. (2014) 'NuSTAR J033202-2746.8 : direct constraints on the Compton reflection in a heavily obscured quasar at z ≈ 2.', Astrophysical journal., 786 (1). p. 16.

## Abstract

We report Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observations of NuSTAR J033202-2746.8, a heavily obscured, radio-loud quasar detected in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South, the deepest layer of the NuSTAR extragalactic survey (~400 ks, at its deepest). NuSTAR J033202-2746.8 is reliably detected by NuSTAR only at E > 8 keV and has a very flat spectral slope in the NuSTAR energy band ($\Gamma =0.55^{+0.62}_{-0.64}$; 3-30 keV). Combining the NuSTAR data with extremely deep observations by Chandra and XMM-Newton (4 Ms and 3 Ms, respectively), we constrain the broad-band X-ray spectrum of NuSTAR J033202-2746.8, indicating that this source is a heavily obscured quasar ($N_{\rm H}=5.6^{+0.9}_{-0.8}\times 10^{23}$ cm–2) with luminosity L 10-40 keV ≈ 6.4 × 1044 erg s–1. Although existing optical and near-infrared (near-IR) data, as well as follow-up spectroscopy with the Keck and VLT telescopes, failed to provide a secure redshift identification for NuSTAR J033202-2746.8, we reliably constrain the redshift z = 2.00 ± 0.04 from the X-ray spectral features (primarily from the iron K edge). The NuSTAR spectrum shows a significant reflection component ($R=0.55^{+0.44}_{-0.37}$), which was not constrained by previous analyses of Chandra and XMM-Newton data alone. The measured reflection fraction is higher than the R ~ 0 typically observed in bright radio-loud quasars such as NuSTAR J033202-2746.8, which has L 1.4 GHz ≈ 1027 W Hz–1. Constraining the spectral shape of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including bright quasars, is very important for understanding the AGN population, and can have a strong impact on the modeling of the X-ray background. Our results show the importance of NuSTAR in investigating the broad-band spectral properties of quasars out to high redshift.

Item Type: Article Galaxies: active, infrared: Galaxies, quasars: General, quasars: individual (NuSTAR J033202-2746.8), X-rays (VoR) Version of Record Download PDF (777Kb) Peer-reviewed http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/16 © 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. No date available 05 August 2014 May 2014 No date available