XMM observations of the narrow-line QSO PHL 1092: Detection of a high and variable soft component

Details XMM observations of the narrow-line QSO PHL 1092: Detection of a high and variable soft component XMM observations of the narrow-line QSO PHL 1092: Detection of a high and variable soft component

2004-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404550v2

Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) 626-633

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 figures, 8 pages, emulateapj style, ApJ in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/423837

We present results based on an XMM-Newton observation of the high luminosity narrow-line QSO PHL 1092 performed in 2003 January. The 0.3 - 10 keV spectrum is well described by a model which includes a power-law (Gamma ~ 2.1) and two blackbody components (kT ~ 130 eV and kT ~ 50 eV). The soft X-ray excess emission is featureless and contributes ~ 80% to the total X-ray emission in the 0.3 - 10 keV band. The most remarkable feature of the present observation is the detection of X-ray variability at very short time scale: the X-ray emission varied by 35% in about 5000 s. We find that this variability can be explained by assuming that only the overall normalization varied during the observation. There was no evidence for any short term spectral variability and the spectral shape was similar even during the ASCA observation carried out in 1997. Considering the high intrinsic luminosity (~ 2x10^45 erg/s) and the large inferred mass of the putative black hole (~ 1.6x10^8 M_sun), the observed time scale of variability indicates emission at close to Eddington luminosity arising from very close to the black hole. We suggest that PHL 1092 in particular (and narrow line Seyfert galaxies in general) is a fast rotating black hole emitting close to its Eddington luminosity and the X-ray emission corresponds to the high-soft state seen in Galactic black hole sources.

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