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A failed wind candidate in NGC 3783 from the 2001 year campaign with Chandra/HETGS

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-02-26 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We reanalyze the Chandra/HETGS observations of NGC 3783 from the campaign in the year 2001, identifying significant spectral variations in the Fe unresolved transition array (UTA) over timescales of weeks to months. These changes correlate with a 1.421.4-2 fold increase in the ionizing continuum and exceed 10σ10 \, \sigma significance. The variations primarily originate from a low-ionization state (logξ=1.65\rm log \xi = 1.65) component of the warm absorber. Time-dependent photoionization modelling confirms the sensitivity of this low-ionization component to continuum variations within the Fe UTA band. Local fitting indicates a lower density limit of >1012.3m3>10^{12.3} \, \rm m^{-3} at 3σ3 \, \sigma statistical uncertainty, with the component located within 0.27pc0.27 \, \rm pc. Our findings suggest that this low-ionization component is a potential failed wind candidate.

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@article{arxiv.2501.16880,
  title  = {A failed wind candidate in NGC 3783 from the 2001 year campaign with Chandra/HETGS},
  author = {Chen Li and Jelle S. Kaastra and Liyi Gu and Daniele Rogantini and Anna Juráňová and Missagh Mehdipour and Jelle de Plaa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16880},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted for publication in A&A, 10 pages, 12 figures