Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 2009
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"High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy: Towards IXO, Proceedings of the international workshop held at the Mullard Space Science La
Computer Science
Scientific paper
Soft X-ray spectral features of warm absorbers (WA) are often found in Seyfert 1 galaxies. The ionizing continuum coming from the central engine and which photoionizes the WA, can be optimally modeled to have three spectral components a) the 'disk blackbody' at about 10 eV - the spectrum from the accretion disk of the black hole, b) the X-ray powerlaw - representing the dominant component at energies 1 keV and above and c) the soft excess in sub keV - which is seen in most objects after deducting the powerlaw component. We use the thermal equilibrium curves generated by the photoionization code CLOUDY to study the influence of the soft excess component on the nature of the WA.
Our studies show that the nature of the WA is strongly dependent on the chemical composition of the absorbing gas, particularly on the abundance of iron, oxygen and the X-ray group (C, Ne, O, Fe) which have important atomic transitions in the energy range 0.3 - 1.5 keV where the soft excess component is supposed to have maximum effect. One of the popular models for the soft excess component is a blackbody with its temperature lying between 100 - 200 eV. We find that the soft excess component seems to decide the stability properties of the gas at 10^5 K; the range of xi/T over which stable warm absorber exists almost doubles if the soft excess luminosity is equal to the luminosity in the powerlaw (0.1 - 10 keV) which is a ratio not unheard of. Even if the soft excess is represented using alternative spectral shapes like the 'comptonized reflection' model, the stability properties of the WA do not change significantly.
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