X-ray Observations of the Seyfert galaxy LB 1727 (1H 0419-577)

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1998-07-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9807142v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 7 figures. LaTeX with encapsulated postscript. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/306573

We discuss the properties of the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy LB 1727, also known as 1H 0419-577, from X-ray observations obtained by ASCA and ROSAT along with optical observations from earlier epochs. ASCA shows only modest (< 20%) variations in X-ray flux within or between the observations. In contrast, a daily monitoring campaign over 1996 Jun - Sept by the ROSAT HRI instrument reveals the soft X-ray (0.1-2 keV) flux to have increased by a factor ~3. The 2 - 10 keV continuum can be parameterized as a power-law with a photon index Gamma ~ 1.45-1.68 across ~0.7 - 11 keV in the rest-frame. We also report the first detection of iron Kalpha line emission in this source. Simultaneous ASCA and ROSAT data show the X-ray spectrum to steepen sharply at a rest-energy \~0.75 keV, the spectrum below this energy can be parameterized as a power-law of slope Gamma ~3.6. We show that LB 1727 is one of the few Seyferts for which we can rule out the possibility that the presence of a warm absorber is solely responsible for the spectral steepening in the soft X-ray regime. Consideration of the overall spectral-energy-distribution for this source indicates the presence of a pronounced XUV-bump visible in optical, ultraviolet and soft X-ray data.

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