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Nuclear obscuration structure in Mrk 417 based on NuSTAR and Swift/BAT data

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-05-26 v1

Abstract

We present the results of X-ray spectral analysis of the Seyfert type 2 galaxy Mrk 417 observed by the NuSTAR (3-60 keV) and the Swift/BAT (14-150) observatories. The NuSTAR data shows a good fit with a baseline model which composed of an absorbed cutoff power-law component and reflected emission from the cold neutral medium. We found that the spectrum is steep Γ=1.630.11+0.10\Gamma = 1.63_{-0.11}^{+0.10} and obscured by hydrogen column density of NH=3.220.39+0.411023cm2N_{H} = 3.22_{-0.39}^{+0.41} \cdot 10^{23} cm^{-2}, narrow FeKαFeK_\alpha emission line has an equivalent width of EW=1151+2EW = 115_{-1}^{+2} eV that suggests this feature is originated in a moderate density of obscurer. In combining NuSTAR data with Swift/BAT spectrum we also applied a more physically motivated approach using complex physical models MYTorus and BNTorus. For the first case the photon index of ΓMYTorus=1.680.09+0.09\Gamma_{MYTorus} = 1.68_{-0.09}^{+0.09} and the line-of-sight column density of the absorber NH,l.o.s=3.360.07+0.041023cm2N_{H,l.o.s} = 3.36_{-0.07}^{+0.04} \cdot 10^{23} cm^{-2}. Applying BNTorus model shows the photon index ΓBNTorus=1.750.09+0.09\Gamma_{BNTorus} = 1.75_{-0.09}^{+0.09} and absorption NH,l.o.s=3.720.39+0.491023cm2N_{H,l.o.s} = 3.72_{-0.39}^{+0.49} \cdot 10^{23} cm^{-2}. Based on the results we get an estimation of gas-dust torus covering factor fc=0.290.34f_{c} = 0.29-0.34 and an intrinsic X-ray luminosity in 2-10 keV of 3.161043\approx 3.16\cdot 10^{43} erg/s. Further analysis of Mid-Infrared (MIR) observational data, indicates that the covering factor maybe even smaller fc0.12f_{c} \approx 0.12. Our results allow us to suggest that obscuring material of Mrk 417 has preferably a ring-like geometry.

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@article{arxiv.2005.11573,
  title  = {Nuclear obscuration structure in Mrk 417 based on NuSTAR and Swift/BAT data},
  author = {O. V. Kompaniiets and A. A. Vasylenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11573},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication to Astrofizika (Astrophysics (Ap)), main text in Russian but with a large detailed description at English

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