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追踪NGC 3516中的盘风

Tracing a Disk Wind in NGC 3516

T. J. Turner, J. N. Reeves, S. B. Kraemer, L. Miller

摘要:

活动星系核的X射线谱通常包含多层气体吸收的特征,这些气体的电离状态和覆盖率可能随时间而变化。迄今为止,我们还不清楚活动星系核中观测到的X射线光谱和时间行为有多少可以归因于吸收的变化,而不是发射或反射成分强度的变化。在了解观测效应的起源之前,活动星系核内部区域的诊断无法可靠地进行。我们研究了X射线吸收体在Seyfert 1星系NGC 3516中的作用。时间平均和通量选择光谱被用来检查的钱德拉HETG和XMM数据从2006年10月观察到的NGC 3516的行为。在Fe K体系中发现的新的类氢和类氦发射和吸收特征揭示了NGC 3516中存在一个以前未知的环核气体区,log xi约为4.3,柱密度为1 E23 cm^-2。一个低电离层log xi ~2和类似的柱密度从以前的观测中得到证实,这一层的覆盖率约为50%,覆盖的变化提供了一个简单的解释,在光变曲线的深度下降,我们解释为日食的连续体由于通过的云在半天的视线。这些吸收气体的内部区域被检测到具有在1000-2000 km/s范围内的流出速度,这一点和对径向位置的限制与NGC 3516中作为盘风的一部分的起源一致。

英文摘要:

X-ray spectra of AGN often contain signatures indicative of absorption in multiple layers of gas whose ionization-state and covering fraction may vary with time. It has been unclear to date how much of the observed X-ray spectral and timing behavior in AGN can be attributed to variations in absorption, versus variations in the strengths of emission or reflection components. Diagnostics of the inner regions of AGN cannot be reliably performed until the origin of observed effects is understood. We investigate the role of the X-ray absorbers in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3516. Time-averaged and flux-selected spectroscopy is used to examine the behavior of NGC 3516 observed in Chandra HETG and XMM data from Oct 2006. New H-like and He-like emission and absorption features discovered in the Fe K regime reveal a previously unknown zone of circumnuclear gas in NGC 3516 with log xi ~ 4.3 and column density 1E23 cm^-2. A lower-ionization layer with log xi ~2 and of similar column density is confirmed from previous observations, this layer has a covering fraction around 50%, and changes in covering provide a simple explanation of a deep dip in the light curve that we interpret as an eclipse of the continuum due to passage of a cloud across the sight line within half a day. These inner zones of absorbing gas are detected to have outflow velocities in the range 1000-2000 km/s, this, and constraints on radial location are consistent with an origin as part of a disk wind in NGC 3516.

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