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NGC 7582 is a well-studied X-ray bright Seyfert 2 with moderately heavy($N_{\text{H}}\sim10^{23}-10^{24}$~cm$^{-2}$), highly variable absorption andstrong reflection spectral features. The spectral shape changed around the year2000, dropping in observed flux and becoming much more highly absorbed. Twoscenarios have been put forth to explain this spectral change: 1) the centralX-ray source partially ``shut off'' around this time, decreasing in intrinsicluminosity, with a delayed decrease in reflection features due to thelight-crossing time of the Compton-thick material or 2) the source became moreheavily obscured, with only a portion of the power law continuum leakingthrough. NuSTAR observed NGC~7582 twice in 2012, two weeks apart, in order toquantify the reflection using high-quality data above 10 keV. We find that themost plausible scenario is that NGC 7582 has recently become more heavilyabsorbed by a patchy torus with a covering fraction of $\sim\,80-90\%$ and anequatorial column density of $\sim 3 \times10^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$. We find the needfor an additional highly variable full-covering absorber with $N_{\text{H}}=4-6 \times10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$ in the line of sight, possibly associated with ahidden broad line region.

The NuSTAR view of reflection and absorption in NGC 7582