The highly variable X-ray spectrum of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419-577

Details The highly variable X-ray spectrum of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419-577 The highly variable X-ray spectrum of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419-577

2001-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112215v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) L1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figures; accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05184.x

An XMM-Newton observation of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419-577 is presented. We find that the spectrum is well fitted by a power law of canonical slope (gamma ~ 1.9) and 3 blackbody components (to model the strong soft excess). The XMM data are compared and contrasted with observations by ROSAT in 1992 and by ASCA and BeppoSAX in 1996. We find that the overall X-ray spectrum has changed substantially over the period, and suggest that the changes are driven by the soft X-ray component. When bright, as in our XMM-Newton observation, it appears that the enhanced soft flux cools the Comptonising corona, causing the 2-10 keV power law to assume a `typical' slope, in contrast to the unusually hard (`photon-starved') spectra observed by ASCA and BeppoSAX four years earlier.

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