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Chandra观测到的7个INTEGRAL硬X射线源中发现严重遮蔽的AGN

Discovery of heavily-obscured AGN among 7 INTEGRAL hard X-ray sources observed by Chandra

S. Sazonov, M. Revnivtsev, R. Burenin, E. Churazov, R. Sunyaev, W. R. Forman, S. S. Murray

摘要:

我们用钱德拉X射线天文台观测了7个积分源,将它们的定域精度提高到~2角秒,并研究了它们的X射线谱。有两个来源被推断有银河系的起源:IGR J 08390 -4833最有可能是一个磁激变变星,白矮星的自转周期约为1,450 s; IGR J 21343 +4738是一个高质量的X射线双星。五个源(IGR J 02466 -4222、IGR J 09522 -6231、IGR J14493-5534、IGR J14561-3738和IGR J23523+5844)被证明是活动星系核,沿视线方向具有显著的固有X射线吸收。它们的红移和硬X射线(17-60 keV)光度分别在0.025 - 0.25和~2x10^43-~2x10^45 erg/s之间,与IGR J 14493 -5534的距离仍然未知。源IGR J 02466 -4222和IGR J 14561 -3738很可能是康普顿厚度的活动星系核,其吸收柱密度NH>10^24 cm^-2,而且前者似乎是最近的X射线明亮、光学正常的星系之一。有了这些新发现的活动星系核,INTEGRAL探测到的被严重遮蔽的活动星系核(NH>10^24 cm^-2)的数量增加到了10个左右。因此,这类天体占本宇宙硬X射线明亮、非耀变体活动星系核的10-15%。在我们的样本中,软(0.5-8.0 keV)与硬(17-60 keV)带通量(钱德拉与积分)的比值很小(<<1%),并且在一些康普顿厚度的活动星系核中没有检测到光学窄线发射,这表明存在一类新的物体,其中中心的大质量黑洞可能被几何厚度的尘埃环包围,尘埃环具有窄电离锥。

英文摘要:

We observed 7 INTEGRAL sources with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to refine their localization to ~2 arcsec and to study their X-ray spectra. Two sources are inferred to have a Galactic origin: IGR J08390-4833 is most likely a magnetic cataclysmic variable with a white dwarf spin period ~1,450 s; and IGR J21343+4738 is a high-mass X-ray binary. Five sources (IGR J02466-4222, IGR J09522-6231, IGR J14493-5534, IGR J14561-3738, and IGR J23523+5844) prove to be AGN with significant intrinsic X-ray absorption along the line of sight. Their redshifts and hard X-ray (17-60 keV) luminosities range from 0.025 to 0.25 and from ~2x10^43 to ~2x10^45 erg/s, respectively, with the distance to IGR J14493-5534 remaining unknown. The sources IGR J02466-4222 and IGR J14561-3738 are likely Compton-thick AGN with absorption column densities NH>10^24 cm^-2, and the former further appears to be one of the nearest X-ray bright, optically-normal galaxies. With the newly-identified sources, the number of heavily-obscured (NH>10^24 cm^-2) AGN detected by INTEGRAL has increased to ~10. Therefore, such objects constitute 10-15% of hard X-ray bright, non-blazar AGN in the local Universe. The small ratio (<<1%) of soft (0.5-8.0 keV) to hard (17-60 keV) band fluxes (Chandra to INTEGRAL) and the non-detection of optical narrow-line emission in some of the Compton-thick AGN in our sample suggests that there is a new class of objects in which the central massive black hole may be surrounded by a geometrically-thick dusty torus with a narrow ionization cone.

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