Summary, Conclusions and Outlook
The focus of this thesis was to probe the obscured accretion of supermassive black holes, with the ultimate aim of helping to understand its importance in driving global black hole growth. Having addressed some of the current questions highlighted in the
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Peter Boorman
The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR
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Peter Boorman
The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR Doctoral Thesis accepted by University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Author Dr. Peter Boorman Czech Academy of Sciences Astronomical Institute Prague, Czech Republic
Supervisor Dr. Poshak Gandhi School of Physics and Astronomy Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering University of Southampton Southampton, UK
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