COMPTON THICK AGN WITH NUSTAR AND XMM-NEWTON

The Xray spectral analysis of Compton thick , having intrinsic obscurationNH>1E24 cm^2) AGN is key to understand the physics of the obscuring materialsurrounding accreting supermassive black holes. We propose to target with acombined NuSTAR/XMMNewton observation two candidate CTAGN selected from theBAT100month survey. Thanks to the excellent count statistics, we will be ableto constrain several spectral parameters (e.g., relative importance of thescattered component versus the direct one, geometry of the obscuring torus,equivalent width of the Iron emission line). This analysis will refineour knowledge of the selection function of CTAGN, therefore helping us in determine the true intrinsic fraction of CTAGN in the local Universe. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]