Abstract
Modern and future surveys effectively provide a panchromatic view for large
numbers of extragalactic objects. Consistently modeling these multiwavelength
survey data is a critical but challenging task for extragalactic studies. The
Code Investigating GALaxy Emission (CIGALE) is an efficient PYTHON code for
spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting of galaxies and active galactic
nuclei (AGNs). Recently, a major extension of CIGALE (named X-CIGALE) has been
developed to account for AGN/galaxy X-ray emission and improve AGN modeling at
UV-to-IR wavelengths. Here, we apply X-CIGALE to different samples, including
COSMOS spectroscopic type 2 AGNs, CDF-S X-ray detected normal galaxies, SDSS
quasars, and COSMOS radio objects. From these tests, we identify several
weaknesses of X-CIGALE and improve the code accordingly. These improvements are
mainly related to AGN intrinsic X-ray anisotropy, X-ray binary emission, AGN
accretion-disk SED shape, and AGN radio emission. These updates improve the fit
quality and allow new interpretation of the results, based on which we discuss
physical implications. For example, we find that AGN intrinsic X-ray anisotropy
is moderate, and can be modeled as $L_X(þeta) 1+þeta$, where
$þeta$ is the viewing angle measured from the AGN axis. We merge the new code
into the major branch of CIGALE, and publicly release this new version as
CIGALE v2022.0 on https://cigale.lam.fr
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Fitting AGN/galaxy X-ray-to-radio SEDs with CIGALE and improvement of the code
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