Evidence for a circum-nuclear and ionised absorber in the X-ray obscured BroadLine Radio Galaxy 3C 445

Details Evidence for a circum-nuclear and ionised absorber in the X-ray obscured BroadLine Radio Galaxy 3C 445 Evidence for a circum-nuclear and ionised absorber in the X-ray obscured BroadLine Radio Galaxy 3C 445

2011-02-25

arxiv.org/abs/1102.5234v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Accepted by MNRAS; 13 pages, 6 figures, 4 tables

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Here we present the results of a Suzaku observation of the Broad Line Radio Galaxy 3C 445. We confirm the results obtained with the previous X-ray observations which unveiled the presence of several soft X-ray emission lines and an overall X-ray emission which strongly resembles a typical Seyfert 2 despite of the optical classification as an unobscured AGN. The broad band spectrum allowed us to measure for the first time the amount of reflection (R~0.9) which together with the relatively strong neutral Fe Kalpha emission line (EW ~ 100 eV) strongly supports a scenario where a Compton-thick mirror is present. The primary X-ray continuum is strongly obscured by an absorber with a column density of NH =2-3 x10^{23} cm^{-2}. Two possible scenarios are proposed for the absorber: a neutral partial covering or a mildly ionised absorber with an ionisation parameter log\xi ~ 1.0 erg cm s^{-1}. A comparison with the past and more recent X-ray observations of 3C 445 performed with XMM-Newton and Chandra is presented, which provided tentative evidence that the ionised and outflowing absorber varied. We argue that the absorber is probably associated with an equatorial disk-wind located within the parsec scale molecular torus.

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