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X-Ray Spectral Parameters for a Sample of 95 Active Galactic Nuclei

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-11-20 v3

Abstract

We present a broadband X-ray analysis of a new homogeneous sample of 95 active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the 22-month Swift/BAT all-sky survey. For this sample we treated jointly the X-ray spectra observed by XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL missions for the total spectral range of 0.5-250 keV. Photon index \Gamma, relative reflection R, equivalent width of Fe KαK_{\alpha} line (EW Fe KαK_{\alpha}), hydrogen column density NHN_{H}, exponential cut-off energy EcE_{c} and intrinsic luminosity LcorrL_{corr} are determined for all objects of the sample. We investigated correlations \Gamma - R, EW Fe KαK_{\alpha} - LcorrL_{corr}, \Gamma - EcE_{c}, EW Fe KαK_{\alpha} - NHN_{H}. Dependence \Gamma - R for Seyfert 1 and 2 type of galaxies has been investigated separately. We found that the relative reflection parameter at low power-law indexes for Seyfert 2 galaxies is systematically higher than for Seyfert 1 ones. This can be related to an increasing contribution of the reflected radiation from the gas-dust torus. Our data show that there exists some anticorrelation between EW Fe KαK_{\alpha} and LcorrL_{corr}, but it is not strong. We have not found statistically significant deviations from the AGN Unified Model.

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@article{arxiv.1501.04555,
  title  = {X-Ray Spectral Parameters for a Sample of 95 Active Galactic Nuclei},
  author = {A. A. Vasylenko and V. I. Zhdanov and E. V. Fedorova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04555},
  year   = {2015}
}

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23 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science

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