“…(2) Since we aim to explore the intrinsic X-ray and UV/optical properties of our sample, objects affected by heavy absorption in the X-ray and UV/optical bands were excluded. We discarded 11 objects in total, nine of which are well-studied objects (PG 1700 + 518, Mrk 486, NGC 4051, NGC 4151, NGC 3516, NGC 3227, NGC 3783, Mrk 5273, and MCG-6-30-15) with X-ray emission affected by ionized and/or neutral absorption related to outflows, and some of them also show continuum reddening or broad absorption lines (BALs) in their UV spectra (e.g., Pounds et al 2004;Kraemer et al 2005Kraemer et al , 2006Kraemer et al , 2012Cappi et al 2006;Ballo et al 2008Ballo et al , 2011Turner et al 2011;Beuchert et al 2015;Pahari et al 2017;Dunn et al 2018). A super-Eddington accreting AGN, Mrk 202, shows an unusually flat 2-10 keV spectrum and an absorption feature prominent in the < 2 keV spectrum, so that it was also excluded.…”