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UGC 4203的钱德拉监测:X射线吸收体的结构

Chandra monitoring of UGC 4203: the structure of the X-ray absorber

G. Risaliti, M. Elvis, S. Bianchi, G. Matt

摘要:

我们提出了一个钱德拉监测活动的高度可变的塞弗特星系UGC 4203(“凤凰星系”),揭示了变化的X射线吸收柱密度的时间尺度上的两个星期。这是继NGC 1365和NGC 7582之后,在“变化外观”源中观察到的第三个明显的短时间尺度上的N_H剧烈变化的例子,即过去在反射主导和康普顿薄状态下观察到的活动星系核。对X射线吸收体与中心的距离的推断限制表明,X射线“环面”可以是与宽发射线区域相同的环面。这种情况下,第一次提出了一个“特设”的图片NGC 1365,可能是共同的结构,环核介质的活动星系核。

英文摘要:

We present a Chandra monitoring campaign of the highly variable Seyfert galaxy UGC 4203 (the "Phoenix Galaxy") which revealed variations in the X-ray absorbing column density on time scales of two weeks. This is the third, clear case, after NGC 1365 and NGC 7582, of dramatic N_H variability on short time scales observed in a "changing look" source, i.e. an AGN observed in the past in both a reflection-dominated and a Compton-thin state. The inferred limits on the distance of the X-ray absorber from the center suggest that the X-ray "torus" could be one and the same with the broad emission line region. This scenario, first proposed for an "ad-hoc" picture for NGC 1365, may be the common structure of the circumnuclear medium in AGN.

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