Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-06
Astron.Astrophys. 401 (2003) 903
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 Latex pages, 11 figures, To appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20030160
This paper presents ASCA (July 1997), XMM-Newton (December 2000) and BeppoSAX (January 2001) observations of the Piccinotti Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO198-G24. The BeppoSAX 0.1-200 keV spectrum exhibits reprocessing features, probably produced by an X-ray illuminated, relativistic accretion disk subtending a solid angle \~2 pi. During the XMM-Newton observation the fluorescent iron K-alpha line profile (centroid energy E~6.4 keV) was broad and twice as bright as in the BeppoSAX observation. An additional emission feature (E~5.7 keV), detected at the 96.3% confidence level, may be part of a relativistic, double-peaked profile. By contrast, in the earlier ASCA observation the line profile is dominated by a remarkably narrow "core" (intrinsic width <50 eV). If this component is produced by reflection off the inner surface of a molecular torus, its large Equivalent Width (~300 eV) most likely represents the "echo" of a previously brighter flux state, in agreement with the dynamical range covered by the historical X-ray light curve in ESO198-G24.
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