Testing the unified model of Active Galactic Nuclei in X-ray selected type 1 and type 2 quasars

Resumen del trabajo presentado al Symposium X-Ray Universe, celebrado en Dublín (Irlanda) del 16 al 19 de junio de 2014.
We have investigated whether the dusty tori invoked in the standard orientation-based unified scheme of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is valid for all AGN types at both low and high luminosities. We used the Bright Ultra-hard XMM-Newton Survey (BUXS), one of the largest flux-limited samples of bright AGN selected above 4.5 keV with XMM-Newton, and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). BUXS includes 255 AGN detected over 44 deg2 of which to date 161 are identified as type 1 AGN and 89 as type 2 AGN and 98% are detected with WISE. We determined the distribution of covering factors of the obscuring region in X-ray type 1 and type 2 AGN by computing the AGN power re-processed into the IR (apparent covering factors) and the torus geometrical covering factor (i.e. the relative fraction of obscured AGN) using the clumpy torus models of Nenkova et al. We have also investigated whether our results favor the so-called receding torus scenario. Finally, I will discuss the possibility of using the spectral energy distributions of the sources in the 3XMM-DR4 catalogue, produced by the >Astronomical Resource Cross-matching for High Energy Studies> (ARCHES) project, to extend such studies over a broader range of AGN parameters.