XMM-Newton observations of the Lockman Hole IV: spectra of the brightest AGN

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2005-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506718v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 39 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20052881

This paper presents the results of a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of a sample of 123 X-ray sources (46 being type-1 AGN and 28 type-2 AGN) detected with XMM-Newton in the Lockman Hole field. Using a single power law model our sources' average spectral slope hardens at faint 0.5-2 keV fluxes but not at faint 2-10 keV fluxes. We explain the effect in terms of an increase in X-ray absorption at faint fluxes. The average spectral slope of our sources is ~1.9 with an intrinsic dispersion of ~0.28. We detected X-ray absorption in 37% of the sources, ~10% in type-1 AGN and ~77% in type-2 AGN. Using X-ray fluxes corrected for absorption, the fraction of absorbed objects and the absorbing column density distribution did not vary with X-ray flux. Our type-1 and type-2 AGN do not appear to have different continuum shapes, but the distribution of intrinsic absorption is different among both classes. A significant fraction of our type-2 AGN (5 out of 28) were found to display no substantial absorption. We discuss possible interpretations to this in terms of Compton-thick AGN and intrinsic Broad Line Region properties. An emission line compatible with Fe Kalpha was detected in 8 sources with rest frame equivalent widths 120-1000 eV. The AGN continuum or intrinsic absorption did not depend on X-ray luminosity and/or redshift. Soft excess emission was detected in 18 objects, but only in 9 could we fit this spectral component with a black body model. The 0.5-2 keV luminosities of the fitted black body were not significantly different in type-1 and type-2 AGN, although the temperatures were slightly higher in type-2 AGN than in type-1 AGN. For 9 sources (including 1 type-1 AGN and 3 type-2 AGN) a scattering model provided a better fit of the soft excess emission.

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