CAIXA: a Catalogue of AGN In the XMM-Newton Archive - Correlations

TL;DR

CAIXA is the largest catalog of high-quality X-ray spectra of radio-quiet, unobscured AGN from XMM-Newton, enabling systematic correlation studies between X-ray and multiwavelength properties.

Contribution

It provides a homogeneous dataset of 156 AGN spectra with multiwavelength data, facilitating new correlation analyses and insights into AGN properties.

Findings

Identification of significant correlations between X-ray spectral features and multiwavelength data.

Largest homogeneous catalog of high signal-to-noise AGN X-ray spectra.

Systematic analysis of AGN properties at a large scale.

Abstract

We presented CAIXA, a Catalogue of AGN in the XMM-Newton Archive, in Bianchi et al. (2009). It consists of all the radio-quiet X-ray unobscured (N$_\mathrm{H}<2\times10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$) active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed by XMM-Newton in targeted observations, whose data are public as of March 2007. With its 156 sources, this is the largest catalogue of high signal-to-noise X-ray spectra of AGN. All the EPIC pn spectra of the sources in CAIXA were extracted homogeneously and a baseline model was applied in order to derive their basic X-ray properties. These data are complemented by multiwavelength data found in the literature: Black Hole masses, Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) of Hbeta, radio and optical fluxes. A systematic search for correlations between the X-ray spectral properties and the multiwavelength data was performed for the sources in CAIXA. We discuss here some of the significant (>99.9 % confidence level) correlations.