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We present an XMM-Newton observation of NGC 7469, including studies of the X-ray and UV variability, 0.2-10 keV spectral continuum, Fe K-alpha emission line and the first-ever high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the soft X-ray warm absorber.…

We present a time-resolved X-ray spectral analysis of the warm absorbers in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051, which has an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using observations from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER). Despite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-24 Dev R Sadaula , Timothy R Kallman , Sibasish Laha

We present new results from a Chandra HETG observation of NGC 5548 and give a comparison of absorption and emission features found in other Seyfert 1 galaxies using Chandra grating observations. Deep soft X-ray edges are seen in Mkn 509 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Yaqoob , I. M. George , T. J. Turner

We present a detailed analysis of the complex absorption apparent in the 2-6 keV X-ray spectrum of the bright nearby Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. We first utilize the large bandpass and medium spectral resolution afforded by BeppoSAX data to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. J. Schurch , R. S. Warwick

We present new UV spectra of the nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548, which we obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph at high spectral resolution, in conjunction with simultaneous Chandra X-ray Observatory spectra.…

We present results from a homogeneous analysis of the broadband 0.3-10 keV CCD resolution as well as of soft X-ray high-resolution grating spectra of a hard X-ray flux-limited sample of 26 Seyfert galaxies observed with XMM-Newton. Our goal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 Sibasish Laha , Matteo Guainazzi , Gulab C. Dewangan , Susmita Chakravorty , Ajit K. Kembhavi

The connection between the coronal lines and the warm absorber is examined systematically. In an earlier work it was found that the coronal line emitting plasma and the warm absorber gas share the same density and temperature. If there is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Pfeiffer , I. Appenzeller , S. Wagner

We report the spectral analysis of a long XMM-Newton observation of the well-studied, moderate luminosity Broad Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. The source was at an historically average brightness and we find the hard (3-10 keV) spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 K. A. Pounds , J. N. Reeves , K. L. Page , R. Edelson , G. Matt , G. C. Perola

We report the detection of ionized absorption in the ASCA spectrum of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 17020+4544. Subsequent optical spectropolarimetry revealed high polarization increasing from 3% in the red to 5% in the blue,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Karen M. Leighly , Laura E. Kay , Beverley J. Wills , D. Wills , Dirk Grupe

Methods. We analyse two observations taken with the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer of Chandra. We investigated the spectral response to a sudden flux decrease by a factor of 5, which occurred during the second observation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. C. Steenbrugge , M. Fenovcik , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , F. Verbunt

We present the analysis of grating spectra of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy IRAS 17020+4544 observed by XMM-Newton in 2004 and 2014. In a previous work on these data, we reported the discovery of a multi-component ultra-fast outflow that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Mario Sanfrutos , Anna Lia Longinotti , Yair Krongold , Matteo Guainazzi , Francesca Panessa

We present a detailed re-analysis of the two {\it ASCA} Performance Verification observations of the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15. Confirming the results of Fabian et al. (1994), we find definite evidence for the {\sc O\,vii} and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. S. Reynolds , A. C. Fabian , K. Nandra , H. Inoue , H. Kunieda , K. Iwasawa

In this paper, we analyze spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 obtained with the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS), the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) and the European Photon Imaging Camera's (EPIC)…

We present a XMM-Newton observation of Markarian 304, a Seyfert 1 galaxy at z = 0.066. The EPIC data show that MKN 304 is affected by heavy (Nh ~10^{23} cm{-2}) obscuration due to ionized gas. A two-phase warm absorber provides an adequate…

We describe the analysis of the seven broad-band X-ray continuum observations of the archetypal Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 that were obtained with XMM-Newton or Chandra, simultaneously with high-energy (> 10 keV) observations with NuSTAR and…

Warm absorbers are an important new tool for investigating the conditions within the central regions of active galaxies. They have been observed in ~50% of the well-studied Seyfert galaxies and have also been detected in quite a number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefanie Komossa , Jochen Greiner

We investigated, using spectral-timing analysis, the characterization of highly ionized outflows in Seyfert galaxies, the so-called warm absorbers. Here, we present our results on the extensive ~ 600 ks of XMM-Newton archival observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Catia Silva , Phil Uttley , Elisa Costantini

A long 280 ks observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 with XMM-Newton is reported. We focus on the oxygen line complex between 17 and 24 A as measured with the RGS spectrometers. Accurate absorption column densities and emission line…

We study the low-contrast Fe II emission blends in the ultraviolet (1250--2200A) and optical (4000--6000A) spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 and show that these features vary in flux and that these variations are correlated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Vestergaard , B. M. Peterson

We report on variable helium absorption lines in NGC 4151 observed across six epochs of quasi-simultaneous near-infrared and optical data. These observations cover the transitions from the metastable 2^3S state at 3889 A and 10830 A, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Conor Wildy , Hermine Landt , Michael R. Goad , Martin J. Ward , James S. Collinson