Investigating the Nuclear Properties of Highly Accreting Active Galactic Nuclei with XMM-Newton

Our understanding of highly accreting AGNs is hampered by the lack of a complete systematic investigation in terms of their main spectral and variability properties, and by the relative paucity of them in the local Universe, especially those powered by supermassive black holes with M_BH > 10^8 M_⊙. To overcome this limitation, we present here the X-ray spectral analysis of a new, large sample of 61 highly accreting AGNs named as the XMM-Newton High-Eddington Serendipitous AGN Sample, or X-HESS, obtained by cross-correlating the 11th release of the XMM-Newton serendipitous catalogue and the catalogue of spectral properties of quasars from the SDSS DR14. The X-HESS AGNs are spread across wide intervals with a redshift of 0.06更多