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NGC 3256南核中一个AGN的红外和X射线证据

Infrared and X-Ray Evidence of an AGN in the NGC 3256 Southern Nucleus

Youichi Ohyama, Yuichi Terashima, Kazushi Sakamoto

摘要:

我们在红外和X射线波段研究了亮红外星系NGC 3256中活动星系核(AGN)的迹象。NGC 3256有两个核,分别是北核和南核(以下分别称为N核和S核)。结果表明,在S核上提取的Spitzer IRAC光谱是类活动星系核的,并且在<6 μ m处的Spitzer IRS光谱比在N核上的更蓝。我们为S核建立了一个活动星系核-星爆复合模型,其中包含一个强吸收的活动星系核,不仅成功地再现了~3arcsec的IRAC和IRS分光光度测量,而且还再现了Diaz-Santos等人在0.36”尺度上观测到的硅酸盐深9.7 μ m吸收。我们在HST NICMOS图像上发现了S核处的一个2.2 μ m致密源,并确定了它的未分辨核心(0.26”分辨率)与以前中红外观测中的致密核心在可比的分辨率。2.2 μ m核的通量与我们的活动星系核光谱能量分布模型一致。我们还分析了比以往任何时候都更深的钱德拉X射线光谱的未解决的(在0.5”分辨率)源在S核。我们发现,一个双组分的幂律模型(初级和散射的)适合一个明显非常硬的光谱与一个中等大的吸收的主要组成部分。连同在6.4千电子伏的荧光Fe-K发射线的等效宽度的限制,X射线光谱与典型的康普顿薄塞弗特2是一致的。因此,我们认为,S核主机的重吸收低光度活动星系核。

英文摘要:

We investigate signs of Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 3256 at both infrared and X-ray wavelengths. NGC 3256 has double, the Northern and Southern, nuclei (hereafter, N and S nuclei, respectively). We show that the Spitzer IRAC colors extracted at the S nucleus are AGN-like, and the Spitzer IRS spectrum is bluer at <6um than at the N nucleus. We built for the S nucleus an AGN-starburst composite model with a heavily absorbed AGN to successfully reproduce not only the IRAC and IRS specrophotometries at ~3arcsec but also the very deep silicate 9.7um absorption observed at 0.36" scale by Diaz-Santos et al. We found a 2.2um compact source at the S nucleus in a HST NICMOS image and identified its unresolved core (at 0.26" resolution) with the compact core in previous mid-infrared observations at comparable resolution. The flux of the 2.2umm core is consistent with our AGN spectral energy distribution model. We also analyzed a deeper than ever Chandra X-ray spectrum of the unresolved (at 0.5" resolution) source at the S nucleus. We found that a dual-component power-law model (for primary and scattered ones) fits an apparently very hard spectrum with a moderately large absorption on the primary component. Together with a limit on equivalent width of a fluorescent Fe-K emission line at 6.4 keV, the X-ray spectrum is consistent with a typical Compton-thin Seyfert 2. We therefore suggest that the S nucleus hosts a heavily absorbed low-luminosity AGN.

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