The Swift BAT Survey Detects Two Optical Broad Line, X-ray Heavily   Obscured Active Galaxies: NVSS 193013+341047 and IRAS 05218-1212
  The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is discovering interesting new objects while monitoring the sky in the 14-195 keV band. Here we present the X-ray properties and spectral energy distributions for two unusual AGN sources. Both NVSS 193013+341047 and IRAS 05218-1212 are absorbed, Compton-thin, but heavily obscured (NH \sim 10^23 cm-2), X-ray sources at redshifts < 0.1. The spectral energy distributions reveal these galaxies to be very red, with high extinction in the optical and UV. A similar SED is seen for the extremely red objects (EROs) detected in the higher redshift universe. This suggests that these unusual BAT-detected sources are a low- redshift (z << 1) analog to EROs, which recent evidence suggests are a class of the elusive type II quasars. Studying the multi-wavelength properties of these sources may reveal the properties of their high redshift counterparts. 
J. Drew Hogg (CU), Lisa M. Winter (CU), Richard Mushotzky (UMD),   Christopher Reynolds (UMD), and Margaret Trippe (UMD)
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