Evidence for Ionised Accretion Discs in Five Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

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2000-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0011360v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.323:506,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages. Accepted to MNRAS. The constant density models presented in this paper are available as a XSPEC atable file at htt

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04234.x

(Abridged) We present the results of fitting ASCA spectra of six narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies with the ionised reflection models of Ross & Fabian (1993). We find that five of the galaxies (TONS 180, PKS 0558-504, Ark 564, Mrk 335 and PG 1244+026) are well fit by the ionised disc model, and these are often better fits than the alternative models considered. The sixth galaxy, NGC 4051, has additional spectral complexity that cannot be well described by a simple ionised disc model or any of the other alternative models. All six of the NLS1s we considered show evidence for a broad Fe Kalpha line, but none of the line centroids are consistent with emission from highly ionised Fe. This is most likely due to the line being redshifted because of relativistic effects. We note that sources with larger ionisation parameters tend to have larger Fe Kalpha EWs. We interpret this as evidence that ionised Fe features are making their presence felt in the spectra. Since most of our sources have steep spectra, highly ionised features are predicted even by the new variable density reflection models. The one source we analyse with a photon index less than two has the lowest ionisation parameter in our sample. We conclude that our result is the strongest evidence yet that NLS1 might have ionised accretion discs. This result gives further weight to the hypothesis that these objects contain rapidly accreting black holes.

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