Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006an....327.1020l&link_type=abstract
Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.327, Issue 10, p.1020
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Galaxies: Active, X-Rays: Galaxies, Techniques: Spectroscopic
Scientific paper
Thanks to the large effective area and the spectral resolution of current X-ray satellites, the detection of X-ray narrow spectral features in the 5-7 keV band is becoming commonplace in many AGN observations. Such lines, both in emission and in absorption, are mostly interpreted as arising from Iron atoms. When observed with some displacement from their rest frame position, these lines carry the potential to study the motion of circumnuclear gas in AGN, providing a diagnostic of the effects of the gravitational field of the central black hole. These narrow features have been often found with marginal statistical significance. A systematic search for narrow features in type1 AGN is being performed on all spectra available in the XMM-Newton archive with the aim to estimate the significance of the features with Monte Carlo simulations of synthetic spectra. The project and preliminary results are presented.
http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_data_acc/xsa/index.shtml
Bianchi Simone
Guainazzi Matteo
Lia Longinotti Anna
Roa J.
Santos-Lleo Maria
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