Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-06-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Focusing on hard X-ray variability, we reanalyzed Suzaku data of Type I Seyfert galaxy MCG-6-30-15 obtained in 2006. Intensity-sorted spectroscopy and a principal component analysis consistently revealed a very hard component that varies independently of the dominant power-law emission. Although the exact nature of this hard component is not yet identified, it can be modeled as a power-law with a photon index ~2 affected by a partial covering absorption, or as a thermal Comptonization emission with a relatively large optical depth. When this component is included in the fitting model, the time-averaged 2.5-55 keV spectrum of MCG-6-30-15 can be reproduced successfully by invoking a mildly broadened iron line with its emission region located at > 8 times the gravitational radii from the central black hole, and a moderate reflection with a covering fraction of ~3.4. This result implies that the solution of a highly spinning black hole in MCG-6-30-15, obtained by Miniutti et al. (2007, PASJ, 59, S315) using the same Suzaku data, is a model dependent result.
Makishima Kazuo.
Nakazawa Kazuhiro
Noda Hirofumi
Uehara Yuuichi
Yamada Shin'ya
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