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NuSTAR catches the unveiling nucleus of NGC 1068

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We present a NuSTAR and XMM-Newton monitoring campaign in 2014/2015 of the Comptonthick Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 1068. During the 2014 August observation, we detect with NuSTAR a flux excess above 20 keV (32 ± 6 per cent) with respect to the 2012 December observation and to a later observation performed in 2015 February. We do not detect any spectral variation below 10 keV in the XMM-Newton data. The transient excess can be explained by a temporary decrease of the column density of the obscuring material along the line of sight (from NH  1025 cm−2 to NH = 6.7 ± 1.0 × 1024 cm−2), which allows us for the first time to unveil the direct nuclear radiation of the buried active galactic nucleus in NGC 1068 and to infer an intrinsic 2-10 keV luminosity LX =7+7−4×1043 erg s−1.

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016, vol. 456, num. 1, p. L94-L98

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Articles publicats en revistes (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB))

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NuSTAR catches the unveiling nucleus of NGC 1068