Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-26
Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 232-239
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages. Modified discussion of Fe-K band absorption features in PDS 456 and PG 1211+143
Scientific paper
10.1086/425338
(abridged) We searched for evidence of soft X-ray absorption by hot gas in the vicinity of the Galaxy in a small sample of fifteen type I AGN observed with the high resolution X-ray gratings on board Chandra. We find that around half of the sight lines in our sample exhibit absorption due to local H- or He-like Oxygen (or both) at confidence levels ranging from >90% to >3sigma. Depending on the sight line, the absorption can be identified with hot gas in particular local structures, the Local Group (LG) or the putative local hot intergalactic medium (IGM). Several sight lines in our sample coincide with sight lines in a study of O VI absorption by local gas, so an assumption of collisional ionization equilibrium (CIE) allows us to constrain the temperature of the local hot gas. We show that some portion of the hot absorbing outflows apparently detected in the spectra of NGC 4051, PDS 456 and PG 1211+143 respectively could actually correspond to absorption by hot local gas since the outflow velocity from each of these AGN coincides with the respective cosmological recession velocity of the AGN.
McKernan Barry
Reynolds Chris S.
Yaqoob Tahir
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