Multiwavelength XMM-Newton observations of the Laor et al. sample of PG quasars

Details Multiwavelength XMM-Newton observations of the Laor et al. sample of PG quasars Multiwavelength XMM-Newton observations of the Laor et al. sample of PG quasars

2005-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510776v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:953-968,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09772.x

We present XMM-Newton/EPIC spectra for the Laor et al. sample of Palomar Green quasars. We find that a power-law provides a reasonable fit to the 2-5 keV region of the spectra. Excess soft X-ray emission below 2 keV is present for all objects, with the exception of those known to contain a warm absorber. A single power-law is, however, a poor fit to the 0.3-10.0 keV spectrum and instead we find that a simple model, consisting of a broken power-law (plus an iron line), provides a reasonable fit in most cases. The equivalent width of the emission line is constrained in just twelve objects but with low (<2 sigma) significance in most cases. For the sources whose spectra are well-fit by the broken power-law model, we find that various optical and X-ray line and continuum parameters are well-correlated; in particular, the power-law photon index is well-correlated with the FWHM of the Hbeta line and the photon indices of the low and high energy components of the broken power-law are well-correlated with each other. These results suggest that the 0.3-10 keV X-ray emission shares a common (presumably non-thermal) origin, as opposed to suggestions that the soft excess is directly produced by thermal disc emission or via an additional spectral component. We present XMM-Newton/OM data which we combine with the X-ray spectra so as to produce broad-band spectral energy distributions, free from uncertainties due to long-term variability in non-simultaneous data. Fitting these optical-UV spectra with a Comptonized disc model indicates that the soft X-ray excess is independent of the accretion disc, confirming our interpretation of the tight correlation between the hard and soft X-ray spectra.

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