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A stratified ultrafast outflow in 1H0707-495?

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-09-05 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Ultrafast outflows (UFOs) have recently been found in the spectra of a number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are strong candidates for driving AGN feedback. 1H0707-495 is a highly accreting narrow line Seyfert 1 and the second most X-ray variable bright AGN. Previous studies found evidence of blueshifted absorption at 0.1-0.2c in its spectrum. We perform a flux-resolved analysis of the full XMM-Newton dataset on this AGN using both CCD and grating data, focusing on the low flux spectrum. We find strong evidence for an ultrafast outflow in absorption at \sim0.13c, with an ionisation parameter log(ξ\log(\xi/erg cm s1)=4.3^{-1})=4.3. Surprisingly, we also detect blueshifted photoionised emission, with the velocity increasing at higher ionisation states, consistent with a trend that has been observed in the UV spectrum of this object. The bulk of the X-ray emitting material is moving at a velocity of 8000 km/s, with ionisation parameter log(ξ\log(\xi/erg cm s1)=2.4^{-1})=2.4. The wind kinetic power inferred from the UFO absorption is comparable to that of the UV and X-ray emission features despite their different velocities and ionisation states, suggesting that we are viewing an energy-conserving wind slowing down and cooling at larger distances from the AGN.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08204,
  title  = {A stratified ultrafast outflow in 1H0707-495?},
  author = {P. Kosec and D. J. K. Buisson and M. L. Parker and C. Pinto and A. C. Fabian and D. J. Walton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08204},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 8 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables