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Session 20 - All Sky Imaging Surveys of Black Hole Candidates and AGN - I.
Oral session, Tuesday, June 10
North Main Hall A,

[20.07] Heavily Obscured AGN and the X-ray Background

A. S. Wilson (U. Maryland, STScI)

I shall review recent studies of active galactic nuclei having very high columns of gas and dust to their nuclei. The relevance of this work to the origin of the X-ray background will also be discussed.


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