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The X-Ray Spectrum and Variability of NGC 4151

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

K. M. Leighly
Affiliation:
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University 538 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027 leighly@ulisse.phys.columbia.edu
M. Matsuoka
Affiliation:
Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, RIKEN Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351, Japan
M. Cappi
Affiliation:
Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, RIKEN Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351, Japan
T. Mihara
Affiliation:
Cosmic Radiation Laboratory, RIKEN Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, Saitama 351, Japan

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We report investigation of the iron Kα line in a long (100 ks) ASCA observation of NGC 4151. This observation offers unprecedented good statistics; however, the situation is complicated by the fact that the absorption in NGC 4151 is complex and therefore it is difficult to deconvolve a broad iron line from the power law strongly curved by the absorption. Preliminary spectral fitting with a dual absorber model, using updated abundances and response matrices, and also allowing for iron overabundance, revealed significant spectral residuals around 5 keV which could be modeled with a broad Gaussian. This profile resembles the line characteristic of emission from a relativistic accretion disk; however, that model fit the spectra poorly. Since the energy of the narrow core is nearly 6.4 keV, the orientation of the accretion disk should be nearly face-on, because if the inclination were higher, the blue horn should be shifted to higher energies. If the orientation is face-on, there should be no emission blueward of 6.4 keV; however, a small blue wing as well as a long red wing are present in the residuals.

Type
Session 3: Diagnostics of High Gravity Objects with X- and Gamma Rays
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998