XMM-Newton Proposal 02038901

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Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003xmm..prop..207m&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #02038901

Computer Science

Ic 2560, Xmm-Newton Proposal 02038901

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We propose a moderately long (80 ksec) observation of IC 2560, a Seyfert 2 galaxy with a luminous water megamaser that shows many similarities to the archtypical megamaser NGC 4258. IC 2560 is likely to be a key object for our understanding of accretion disks around supermassive black holes. A brief Chandra observation showed that the X-ray source is hidden behind Compton-thick obscuration, with an extremely strong (EW 3.6 keV) Fe K alpha line. Our observation will collect approximately 10,000 source photons, allowing us to obtain a high-quality spectrum of the central source, which will be used to determine the source parameters, search for a Compton shoulder on the Fe K alpha line, and obtain a vastly improved spectrum of the soft X-ray emission.

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