Unknown active galactic nuclei study

Focusing on the 36 sources with measured redshift, we compute their spectral energy distribution (SED) from radio to {gamma}-rays with the aim to classify these objects. We apply emission models that attempt to reproduce the obtained SEDs, including: (i) a standard thin accretion disk together with an obscuring torus and a X-ray corona; (ii) a two temperature thick advection-dominated flow; (iii) an obscured AGN model, accounting for absorption along the line of sight at kiloelectronvolt energies and in the optical band; and (iv) a phenomenological model to describe the jet emission in blazar-like objects.

We integrate the models with the SWIRE template libraries to account for the emission of the host galaxy. For every source we found a good agreement between data and our model. Considering that the sources were selected in the hard X-ray band, which is rather unaffected by absorption, we expected and found a large fraction of absorbed radio-quiet AGNs (31 out of 36) and some additional rare radio-loud sources (5 out of 36), since the jet emission in hard X-rays is important for aligned jets owing to the boost produced by the beaming effect.