XMM-Newton observations of seven soft X-ray excess QSOs

Details XMM-Newton observations of seven soft X-ray excess QSOs XMM-Newton observations of seven soft X-ray excess QSOs

2004-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404444v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 352 (2004) 523

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07939.x

XMM-Newton observations of seven QSOs are presented and the EPIC spectra analysed. Five of the AGN show evidence for Fe K-alpha emission, with three being slightly better fitted by lines of finite width; at the 99 per cent level they are consistent with being intrinsically narrow, though. The broad-band spectra can be well modelled by a combination of different temperature blackbodies with a power-law, with temperatures between kT ~ 100-300 eV. On the whole, these temperatures are too high to be direct thermal emission from the accretion disc, so a Comptonization model was used as a more physical parametrization. The Comptonizing electron population forms the soft excess emission, with an electron temperature of ~ 120-680 eV. Power-law, thermal plasma and disc blackbody models were also fitted to the soft X-ray excess. Of the sample, four of the AGN are radio-quiet and three radio-loud. The radio-quiet QSOs may have slightly stronger soft excesses, although the electron temperatures cover the same range for both groups.

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