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A Relativistic Disc Reflection Model for 1H0419-577: Multi-Epoch Spectral Analysis with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-12-26 v1

Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the spectral properties of the Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H0419-577, based on the archival XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and simultaneous Swift observations taken between 2002-2015. All the observations show a broad emission line feature at the iron band. We demonstrate that the broad band spectral variability at different levels can be explained by the combination of light-bending effects in the vicinity of the central black hole plus a thin warm absorber. We obtain a black hole spin of a > 0.98 by fitting the multi-epoch spectra with the relativistic disc reflection model. 1H0419-577 is accreting at 40% of its Eddington limit and its X-ray band shows the hardest powerlaw continuum in the highest flux state, which was previously more commonly seen in AGNs with a low accretion rate (e.g. LX/LEdd<102L_{\rm X} /L_{\rm Edd} < 10^{-2}). The NuSTAR observation shows a cool coronal temperature of kT=307+22kT=30^{+22}_{-7}keV in the high flux state.

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@article{arxiv.1811.10932,
  title  = {A Relativistic Disc Reflection Model for 1H0419-577: Multi-Epoch Spectral Analysis with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR},
  author = {Jiachen Jiang and Dominic J. Walton and Andrew C. Fabian and Michael L. Parker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10932},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted by MNRAS