Nuclear obscuration structure in Mrk 417 based on NuSTAR and Swift/BAT data
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 and obscured by hydrogen column density of , narrow emission line has an equivalent width of 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 and the line-of-sight column density of the absorber . Applying BNTorus model shows the photon index and absorption . Based on the results we get an estimation of gas-dust torus covering factor and an intrinsic X-ray luminosity in 2-10 keV of erg/s. Further analysis of Mid-Infrared (MIR) observational data, indicates that the covering factor maybe even smaller . 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}
}
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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