Discovery of Probable Relativistic Fe Emission and Absorption in the Cloverleaf Quasar H 1413+117

Details Discovery of Probable Relativistic Fe Emission and Absorption in the Cloverleaf Quasar H 1413+117 Discovery of Probable Relativistic Fe Emission and Absorption in the Cloverleaf Quasar H 1413+117

2007-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702742v2

Astrophys.J.661:678-692,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

28 pages, includes 12 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/516816

We present results from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar H 1413+117. Our spatial and spectral analysis of a recent deep Chandra observation confirms a microlensing event in a previous Chandra observation performed about 5 years earlier. We present constraints on the structure of the accretion flow in H 1413+117 based on the time-scale of this microlensing event. Our analysis of the combined spectrum of all the images indicates the presence of two emission peaks at rest-frame energies of 5.35 keV and 6.32 keV detected at the > 98% and > 99% confidence levels, respectively. The double peaked Fe emission line is fit well with an accretion-disk line model, however, the best-fitting model parameters are neither well constrained nor unique. Additional observations are required to constrain the model parameters better and to confirm the relativistic interpretation of the double peaked Fe Kalpha line. Another possible interpretation of the Fe emission is fluorescent Fe emission from the back-side of the wind. The spectra of images C and D show significant high-energy broad absorption features that extend up to rest-frame energies of 9 keV and 15 keV respectively. We propose that a likely cause of these differences is significant variability of the outflow on time-scales that are shorter than the time-delays between the images. The Chandra observation of H 1413+117 has made possible for the first time the detection of the inner regions of the accretion disk and/or wind and the high ionization component of the outflowing wind of a LoBAL quasar.

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