Constraints on the absorption-dominated model for the X-ray spectrum of MCG-6-30-15

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2009-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3099v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. 5 pages with 1 figure

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Complexities in the X-ray spectrum of the nearby Seyfert 1.2 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 are commonly interpreted in terms of a broad iron line and the associated Compton reflection hump from the innermost relativistic regions of an accretion disk around a rapidly spinning black hole. However, an alternative model has recently been proposed in which these spectral features are caused entirely by complex (ionized and partial-covering) absorption. By considering the fluorescent emission that must accompany photoelectric absorption, we show that the absorption-dominated model over-predicts the 6.4keV iron line flux unless the marginally Compton-thick absorber responsible for the hard X-ray hump satisfies very restrictive geometric constraints. In the absence of a specific model that both obeys these geometrical constraints and is physically-plausible, the relativistic-reflection model is favoured.

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