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We present a detailed analysis of the complex soft X-ray spectrum of NGC 4151 measured by the RGS instruments aboard XMM-Newton. The XMM-Newton RGS spectra demonstrate that the soft X-ray emission is extremely rich in X-ray emission lines…

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Soft X-rays high resolution spectroscopy of obscured AGNs shows the existence of a complex soft $X$-ray spectrum dominated by emission lines of He and H-like transitions of elements from Carbon to Neon, as well as L-shell transitions due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Nucita , M. Guainazzi , A. L. Longinotti , M. Santos-Lleo , Y. Maruccia , S. Bianchi

We report high resolution imaging of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 obtained with a 50 ks Chandra HRC observation. The HRC image resolves the emission on spatial scales of 0.5", ~30 pc, showing an extended X-ray morphology…

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This paper is the third in a series in which we present deep Chandra ACIS-S imaging spectroscopy of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151, devoted to study its complex circum-nuclear X-ray emission. Emission features in the soft X-ray spectrum of…

We present a detailed analysis of the intrinsic X-ray absorption in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 using Chandra/HETGS data obtained 2002 May, as part of a program which included simultaneous UV spectra using HST/STIS and FUSE. NGC 4151 was…

We present the XMM-Newton RGS and EPIC pn spectra of a long (\simeq 100 ks) observation of one of the soft X-ray brightest Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxies, NGC 424. As a first step, we performed a phenomenological analysis of the data to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Marinucci , S. Bianchi , G. Matt , A. C. Fabian , K. Iwasawa , G. Miniutti , E. Piconcelli

We present the first high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 4151. Observations with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer reveal a spectrum dominated by narrow emission lines from a spatially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. M. Ogle , H. L. Marshall , J. C. Lee , C. R. Canizares

We present Chandra X-ray observations of the nearby Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 4151. The images show the extended soft X-ray emission on the several hundreds of pc scale with better sensitivity than previously obtained. The spectrum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Yang , A. S. Wilson , P. Ferruit

We report on a study of forbidden emission-line spectrum of nearby Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 4151 based on the high-resolution (R ~ 45,000) optical spectrum obtained by using the High Dispersion Spectrograph boarded on the Subaru Telescope.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tohru Nagao , Takashi Murayama , Yasuhiro Shioya , Yoshiaki Taniguchi

We study the X-ray spectral variability of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 as observed during two XMM-Newton observations. The data show evidence for a neutral and constant reflection component and for constant emission from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 G. Ponti , G. Miniutti , M. Cappi , L. Maraschi , A. C. Fabian , K. Iwasawa

The ISO-SWS infrared spectroscopic observations of the nucleus of Seyfert galaxy NGC4151, which are described in a companion paper, are used together with a compilation of UV to IR narrow emission line data to determine the spectral shape…

We present ISO-SWS and ISOPHOT-S spectroscopy of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. We detect a total of 17 fine structure emission lines emitted by a wide range of low- and high-excitation ions, two rotational lines of molecular hydrogen, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. Sturm , T. Alexander , D. Lutz , A. Sternberg , H. Netzer , R. Genzel

Deep optical spectra of the high excitation planetary nebula NGC 1501 and its W04 central star are presented. A recombination line abundance analysis of the central star's emission-line spectrum yields He:C:O mass fractions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barbara Ercolano , R. Wesson , Y. Zhang , M. J. Barlow , O. De Marco , T. Rauch , X. -W. Liu

Context. Our consortium performed an extensive multi-wavelength campaign of the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 in 2013-14. The source appeared unusually heavily absorbed in the soft X-rays, and signatures of outflowing absorption were…

The Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC4151 is characterized by complex X-ray absorption, well described by a dual absorber, composed of a uniform mildly ionized gas and a cold system that partially covers the central source. However, in one of the 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Piro , A. De Rosa , G. Matt , G. C. Perola

We study gamma-ray observations of NGC 4151 by GRO/OSSE contemporaneous with X-ray observations by ROSAT and Ginga in 1991 June and with ASCA in 1993 May. The spectra are well modeled by thermal Comptonization and a dual neutral absorber.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. A. Zdziarski , W. N. Johnson , P. Magdziarz

Recent XMM-Newton observations have measured the hard (2.5-12 keV) X-ray spectrum of the well-known Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 with a signal-to-noise unprecedented for this source. We find that a spectral model, developed to fit previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Schurch , R. S. Warwick , R. E. Griffiths , S. Sembay

We have studied the X-ray emission within the inner 150 pc radius of NGC 4151 by constructing high spatial resolution emission line images of OVII, OVIII, and NeIX. These maps show extended structures that are spatially correlated with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Junfeng Wang , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Martin Elvis , Guido Risaliti , Carole G. Mundell , Margarita Karovska , Andreas Zezas

We report on X-ray spectroscopic observations with XMM/Newton of the ultracompact, double white dwarf binary, GP Com. With the Reflection Grating Spectrometers (RGS) we detect the Lyman alpha and beta lines of hydrogen-like nitrogen (N VII)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tod E. Strohmayer

Deep spectroscopy of the planetary nebula (PN) NGC\,6153 shows that its heavy element abundances derived from optical recombination lines (ORLs) are ten times higher than those derived from collisionally excited lines (CELs), and points to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 H. -B. Yuan , X. -W. Liu , D. Péquignot , R. H. Rubin , B. Ercolano , Y. Zhang
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