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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2014

NGC 1365: A LOW COLUMN DENSITY STATE UNVEILING A LOW IONIZATION DISK WIND

V. Braito,
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N. Reeves, J.
  • Fonction : Auteur
J. Gofford,
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E. Nardini,
  • Fonction : Auteur
G. Risaliti,
  • Fonction : Auteur

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We present the time-resolved spectral analysis of the XMM-Newton data of NGC 1365 collected during one XMM-Newton observation, which caught this "changing-look" active galactic nucleus in a high flux state characterized also by a low column density (N H ~ 1022 cm-2) of the X-ray absorber. During this observation, the low-energy photoelectric cut-off is at about ~1 keV and the primary continuum can be investigated with the XMM-Newton-RGS data, which show strong spectral variability that can be explained as a variable low N H that decreased from N H ~ 1023 cm-2 to 1022 cm-2 in a 100 ks timescale. The spectral analysis of the last segment of the observation revealed the presence of several absorption features that can be associated with an ionized (log ξ ~ 2 erg cm s-1) outflowing wind (v out ~ 2000 km s-1). We detected for the first time a possible P-Cygni profile of the Mg XII Lyα line associated with this mildly ionized absorber indicative of a wide angle outflowing wind. We suggest that this wind is a low ionization zone of the highly ionized wind present in NGC 1365, which is responsible for the iron K absorption lines and is located within the variable X-ray absorber. At the end of the observation, we detected a strong absorption line at E ~ 0.76 keV most likely associated with a lower ionization zone of the absorber (log ξ ~ 0.2 erg cm s-1, N H ~ 1022 cm-2), which suggests that the variable absorber in NGC 1365 could be a low ionization zone of the disk wind.

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hal-02326897 , version 1 (22-10-2019)

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V. Braito,, N. Reeves, J., J. Gofford,, E. Nardini,, Delphine Porquet, et al.. NGC 1365: A LOW COLUMN DENSITY STATE UNVEILING A LOW IONIZATION DISK WIND. The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 795 (1), pp.87. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/87⟩. ⟨hal-02326897⟩
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