THE BAT AGN SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY (BASS) PROVIDED THE FIRST LARGE AND COMPLETE CENSUS OF THE KEY PHYSICAL PARAMETERS OF THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES THAT ARE POWERING THE LOCAL ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN) POPULATION INCLUDING THE BLACK HOLE MASS OBSCURATION BOLOMETRIC LUMINOSITY AND ACCRETION RATE. WE REQUEST FUNDING FOR THE BASS PI TO COMPLETE THE 105-MONTH DATA RELEASE WHICH WILL INCLUDE AN UPDATED SOURCE CATALOG AND X-RAY ANALYSIS BASED ON ARCHIVAL DATA. MOST OF THE NEWLY AVAILABLE DATA COME FROM LEGACY SURVEYS WITH SWIFT-XRT NUSTAR AND XMM BAND C PROGRAMS THAT HAD NO ASSOCIATED ANALYSIS FUNDS. THE DATA RELEASE WILL FOCUS ON PROVIDING A COMPLETE CENSUS OF ALL AGN IN THE 105-MONTH SWIFT-BAT SURVEY AND PARTICULARLY THE NEWLY IDENTIFIED SOURCES NOT INCLUDED IN DR1. THE 105-MONTH RELEASE WILL ALSO PROVIDE UPDATED COUNTERPARTS BASED ON THE X-RAY WISE AND GAIA CROSS-MATCHING AS WELL AS AGN SUBCLASSES REDSHIFTS BLACK HOLE MASSES AND EDDINGTON RATIOS THAT ARE CRITICAL FOR LEGACY STUDIES. FINALLY WE REQUEST FUNDING TO RELEASE A CATALOG OF UV PHOTOMETRY FROM SWIFT-UVOT AND XMM-OM AND AN ASSOCIATED PSF EXTRACTION MACHINE LEARNING TOOL FOR UV IMAGES. THIS DATA WILL ENABLE US TO PROPERLY MEASURE THE BOLOMETRIC LUMINOSITY FROM THE SIMULTANEOUS X-RAY AND UV DATA AS WELL AS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE IMPROVED SPATIAL RESOLUTION TO MEASURE THE CENTRAL STAR FORMATION OF SWIFT-BAT AGN HOST GALAXIES. WE WILL RELEASE ALL OF THE DATA TO THE COMMUNITY ENABLING DOZENS OF ADDITIONAL STUDIES BEYOND OUR SUCCESS IN THE DR1. THIS WORK WILL INCREASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMPTON-THICK AGN THE COSMIC X-RAY BACKGROUND NUCLEAR STAR FORMATION IN AGN AND BLACK HOLE GROWTH ACROSS COSMIC TIME THUS SATISFYING NASA STRATEGIC PLAN TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF BLACK HOLES.
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