SUZAKU VIEW OF THE SWIFT/BAT ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. I. SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF SIX ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND EVIDENCE FOR TWO TYPES OF OBSCURED POPULATION

We present a systematic spectral analysis with Suzaku of six active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected in the Swift/BAT hard X-ray (15-200 keV) survey: Swift J0138.6-4001, J0255.2-0011, J0350.1-5019, J0505.7-2348, J0601.9-8636, and J1628.1-5145. This is considered to be a representative sample of new AGNs without X-ray spectral information before the BAT survey. We find that the 0.5-200 keV spectra of these sources can be uniformly fitted with a base model consisting of heavily absorbed (log N-H > 23.5 cm(-2)) transmitted components, scattered lights, a reflection component, and an iron-K emission line. There are two distinct groups: three new-type AGNs (including the two sources reported by Ueda et al.) with an extremely small scattered fraction (f(scat) < 0.5%) and strong reflection component (R = Omega/2 pi greater than or similar to 0.8, where Omega is the solid angle of the reflector), and three classical-type ones with f(scat) > 0.5% and R less than or similar to 0.8. The spectral parameters suggest that the new type has an optically thick torus for Thomson scattering (N-H similar to 10(25) cm(-2)) with a small opening angle theta similar to 20 degrees. viewed in a rather face-on geometry, while the classical type has a thin torus (N-H similar to 10(23-24) cm(-2)) with theta greater than or similar to 30 degrees. We infer that a significant number of new-type AGNs with an edge-on view are missing in the current all-sky hard X-ray surveys.