Physics – Nuclear Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004nuphs.132..209n&link_type=abstract
Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, Volume 132, p. 209-212.
Physics
Nuclear Physics
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Scientific paper
NGC3516 in the low flux state shows a flat energy spectrum (photon index ~1) and an intense narrow iron line. Such spectra are also observed in other Seyfert galaxies, and a broad bump structure around 6 keV above the 'flat' power-law spectrum has been interpreted as the gravitationally red-shifted iron line, disk reflection, or cold and/or warm absorbers. However, six years if BeppoSAX observations, including our latest three ones in 2001, clearly demonstrate that energy spectra above 20 keV always exhibit steep power-laws with photon indices ~2, and the flux changes only by a factor of 2, while the soft X-ray flux by a factor of ~10. From this fact, using BeppoSAX and ASCA data, we have concluded that the flat spectrum results from reprocessed, and partially covered power-laws with Γ~1.8 by warm matter nearby the central source and a cold absorber moved in the line of sight, respectively, and that the broad iron line and disk reflection components are less significant than one ever thought. Thus, the long-term spectral variations can be considered by intervening absorbers rather than changes in the accretion rate.
Hong Seung Sae
Mihara Tatehiro
Negoro Hitoshi
Nogami Ken'ichi
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