Completing an Unbiased Census of AGN Obsuration

We propose to observe 7 farIRselected Comptonthick (CT) AGN candidatessimultaneously with accepted NuSTAR Legacy Survey observations in the NuSTARLocal AGN NH Distribution Survey (NuLANDS). All sources lack sufficient plannedsoft Xray coverage critical to constrain obscuring NH to > 90% confidence. Thetargets were selected via a novel CT AGN selection strategy that utilises theobscuration bias om nipresent in hard Xray selection, and has proven highlyefficient in identifying luminous CT AGN. We show that XMMNewton observationsof these 7 sources in conjunction with NuSTAR is the only way to complete theprimary science goal of NuLANDS to directly establish the true NH distributionin the local Universe without bias corrections. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]