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| Name: Abhijit Kayal Affiliation: PRL, Ahmedabad Conference ID: ASI2019_137 Title : Nature of Obscuring material around AGN using X-ray observations Authors and Co-Authors : Abhijit Kayal, Veeresh Singh Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Extragalactic Astronomy Abstract : X-ray emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is believed to arise from the accretion disk around the supermassive black hole (SMBH). The obscuring material along the line-of-sight to AGN can be traced by X-ray spectra as it causes photoelectric absorption to the soft X- ray photons (0.5 − 10 keV). Therefore, X-ray spectral modeling of obscured AGN is expected to yield high equivalent hydrogen column density (N_H > 10^22 cm^−2 ), high equivalent width of Fe Kα line and strong reflection component. We present the modeling of X-ray spectra of a sample of AGN with the aim to understand the nature of the obscuring material around AGN. |