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X射线窄线区域变异性作为几何探针:NGC 5548的情况

X-ray narrow line region variability as a geometry probe: The case of NGC 5548

R. G. Detmers, J. S. Kaastra, I. M. McHardy

摘要:

我们研究了Seyfert 1星系NGC 5548中产生X射线窄发射线的气体的长时间尺度变化,以限制发射气体的位置和几何形状。使用X射线光谱与Chandra-LETGS和HETGS仪器和XMM-牛顿RGS,并将它们与长期监测观测的罗西X射线定时探测器(RXTE),我们进行相关分析,以试图约束的时间尺度上的窄线发射气体响应的连续通量的变化。随着2007年Chandra-LETGS观测的加入,我们在历史上最低的通量水平上进行了额外的观测。我们的结论是NGC 5548中的NLR是在一个电离锥的形式,紧凑的大小,并位于1和15 pc之间的中心源,这取决于NLR的确切几何形状。

英文摘要:

We study the long time scale variability of the gas responsible for the X-ray narrow emission lines in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548, in order to constrain the location and geometry of the emitting gas. Using X-ray spectra taken with the Chandra-LETGS and HETGS instruments and with XMM-Newton RGS and combining them with long-term monitoring observations of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we perform a correlation analysis in order to try constrain the time scale on which the narrow line emitting gas responds to variations of the continuum flux. With the inclusion of the 2007 Chandra-LETGS observation we have an additional observation at an historically low flux level. We conclude that the NLR in NGC 5548 is in the form of an ionization cone, compact in size, and located between 1 and 15 pc from the central source, depending on the exact geometry of the NLR.

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