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NGC 5643中康普顿厚度活动星系核和超亮X射线候选源的NuSTAR观测

NuSTAR Observations of the Compton-thick Active Galactic Nucleus and Ultraluminous X-ray Source Candidate in NGC 5643

A. Annuar, P. Gandhi, D. M. Alexander, G. B. Lansbury, P. Arévalo, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Baloković, F. E. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, M. Brightman, F. E. C… 展开作者

A. Annuar, P. Gandhi, D. M. Alexander, G. B. Lansbury, P. Arévalo, D. R. Ballantyne, M. Baloković, F. E. Bauer, S. E. Boggs, W. N. Brandt, M. Brightman, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, A. Del Moro, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, R. C. Hickox, G. Matt, S. Puccetti, C. Ricci, J. R. Rigby, D. Stern, D. J. Walton, L. Zappacosta, W. Zhang

摘要:

我们提出了两个NuSTAR观测的本地Seyfert 2活动星系核(AGN)和超铝X射线源(ULX)的候选人在NGC 5643。结合钱德拉、XMM-牛顿和Swift-BAT的存档数据,我们对活动星系核进行了20多年的高质量宽带光谱分析($\sim$ 0.5-100 keV)。以前的X射线观测表明,活动星系核被沿着我们视线的康普顿厚度(CT)的遮蔽气体柱所遮蔽。然而,由于缺乏高质量的$\gtrsim$ 10 keV观测,加上附近存在X射线发光源NGC 5643 X-1,在核光谱的定性方面留下了很大的不确定性。NuSTAR现在使AGN和NGC 5643 X-1能够首次在10 keV以上分别分辨,并允许直接测量朝向核的吸收柱密度。新的数据表明,细胞核确实被CT柱$N_{\rm{H}}$ $\gtrsim$ 5 $\times$ 10 $^{24}$ cm $^{-2}$所掩盖。由最佳拟合模型推断的2-10 keV吸收校正光度范围为$L_{2-10,\rm{int}} =$(0.8-1.7)$\times$ 10 $^{42}$ erg s $^{-1}$,与多波长本征光度指示器预测的结果一致。我们还研究了NGC 5643 X-1的NuSTAR数据,并表明它在能量$E$ $\sim$ 10 keV处具有光谱截止的证据,类似于NuSTAR观察到的其他ULX。随着2003-2014年3-8 keV波段X射线光度显著变化的证据,我们的结果进一步加强了NGC 5643 X-1的ULX分类。

英文摘要:

We present two NuSTAR observations of the local Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) and an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) candidate in NGC 5643. Together with archival data from Chandra, XMM-Newton and Swift-BAT, we perform a high-quality broadband spectral analysis of the AGN over two decades in energy ($\sim$0.5-100 keV). Previous X-ray observations suggested that the AGN is obscured by a Compton-thick (CT) column of obscuring gas along our line-of-sight. However, the lack of high-quality $\gtrsim$ 10 keV observations, together with the presence of a nearby X-ray luminous source, NGC 5643 X-1, had left significant uncertainties in the characterization of the nuclear spectrum. NuSTAR now enables the AGN and NGC 5643 X-1 to be separately resolved above 10 keV for the first time and allows a direct measurement of the absorbing column density toward the nucleus. The new data show that the nucleus is indeed obscured by a CT column of $N_{\rm{H}}$ $\gtrsim$ 5 $\times$ 10$^{24}$ cm$^{-2}$. The range of 2-10 keV absorption-corrected luminosity inferred from the best fitting models is $L_{2-10,\rm{int}} =$ (0.8-1.7) $\times$ 10$^{42}$ erg s$^{-1}$, consistent with that predicted from multiwavelength intrinsic luminosity indicators. We also study the NuSTAR data for NGC 5643 X-1, and show that it exhibits evidence for a spectral cut-off at energy, $E$ $\sim$ 10 keV, similar to that seen in other ULXs observed by NuSTAR. Along with the evidence for significant X-ray luminosity variations in the 3-8 keV band from 2003-2014, our results further strengthen the ULX classification of NGC 5643 X-1.

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