Monitoring RXTE Observations of Markarian 348: the origin of the column density variations

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2001-12-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112280v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 332 (2002) L23

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05392.x

We analyze 37 RXTE observations of the type 2 Seyfert galaxy Mrk348 obtained during a period of 14 months. We confirm the spectral variability previous reported by Smith et al., in the sense that thecolumn density decreases by a factor of ~3 as the count rate increases. Column density variations could possibly originate either due to the random drift of clouds within the absorption screen, or due to photoionization processes. Our modeling of the observed variations implies that the first scenario is more likely. These clouds should lie in a distance of >2 light years from the source, having a diameter of a few light days and a density of >10^7 cm^(-3), hence probably residing outside the Broad Line Region.

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