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We present one of the largest multiwavelength studies of simultaneous optical-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of unobscured ( N H < 10 22 cm −2 ) active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe. Using a representative sample of hard-X-ray-selected AGN from the 70-month Swift /BAT catalog, with optical/UV photometric data from Swift /UVOT and X-ray spectral data from Swift /XRT, we constructed broadband SEDs of 236 nearby AGN (0.001 < z < 0.3). We employed GALFIT to estimate host galaxy contamination in the optical/UV and determine the intrinsic AGN fluxes. We used an absorbed power law with a reflection component to model the X-ray spectra and a dust-reddened multi-temperature blackbody to fit the optical/UV SED. We calculated intrinsic luminosities at multiple wavelengths, total bolometric luminosities ( L bol ), optical-to-X-ray spectral indices ( α ox ), and multiple bolometric corrections ( κ λ ) in the optical, UV, and X-rays. We used black hole masses obtained by reverberation mapping and the virial method to estimate Eddington ratios ( λ Edd ) for all our AGN. We confirm the tight correlation (scatter = 0.45 dex) between UV (2500 Å) and X-ray (2 keV) luminosity for our sample. We observe a significant decrease in α ox with L bol and λ Edd , suggesting that brighter sources emit more UV photons per X-rays. We report a second-order regression relation (scatter = 0.15 dex) between the 2–10 keV bolometric correction ( κ 2 − 10 ) and α ox , which is useful to compute L bol in the absence of multiband SEDs. We also investigate the dependence of optical/UV bolometric corrections on the physical properties of AGN and obtain a significant increase in the UV bolometric corrections ( κ W2 and κ M2 ) with L bol and λ Edd , unlike those in the optical ( κ V and κ B ), which are constant across five orders of L bol and λ Edd . We obtain significant dispersions (∼0.1–1 dex) in all bolometric corrections, and hence recommend using appropriate relations with observed quantities while including the reported scatter, instead of their median values.

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
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2024-11-01
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https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450567
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We present one of the largest multiwavelength studies of simultaneous optical-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of unobscured ( N H < 10 22 cm −2 ) active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe. Using a representative sample of hard-X-ray-selected AGN from the 70-month Swift /BAT catalog, with optical/UV photometric data from Swift /UVOT and X-ray spectral data from Swift /XRT, we constructed broadband SEDs of 236 nearby AGN (0.001 < z < 0.3). We employed GALFIT to estimate host galaxy contamination in the optical/UV and determine the intrinsic AGN fluxes. We used an absorbed power law with a reflection component to model the X-ray spectra and a dust-reddened multi-temperature blackbody to fit the optical/UV SED. We calculated intrinsic luminosities at multiple wavelengths, total bolometric luminosities ( L bol ), optical-to-X-ray spectral indices ( α ox ), and multiple bolometric corrections ( κ λ ) in the optical, UV, and X-rays. We used black hole masses obtained by reverberation mapping and the virial method to estimate Eddington ratios ( λ Edd ) for all our AGN. We confirm the tight correlation (scatter = 0.45 dex) between UV (2500 Å) and X-ray (2 keV) luminosity for our sample. We observe a significant decrease in α ox with L bol and λ Edd , suggesting that brighter sources emit more UV photons per X-rays. We report a second-order regression relation (scatter = 0.15 dex) between the 2–10 keV bolometric correction ( κ 2 − 10 ) and α ox , which is useful to compute L bol in the absence of multiband SEDs. We also investigate the dependence of optical/UV bolometric corrections on the physical properties of AGN and obtain a significant increase in the UV bolometric corrections ( κ W2 and κ M2 ) with L bol and λ Edd , unlike those in the optical ( κ V and κ B ), which are constant across five orders of L bol and λ Edd . We obtain significant dispersions (∼0.1–1 dex) in all bolometric corrections, and hence recommend using appropriate relations with observed quantities while including the reported scatter, instead of their median values.

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