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X-ray spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei (AGN) offers the opportunity to directly probe the inner regions of the accretion disk. We present the results of our analysis of average AGN XMM-Newton X-ray spectra in the Chandra Deep Field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-12 S. Falocco , F. J. Carrera , A. Corral , X. Barcons , A. Comastri , R. Gilli , P. Ranalli , C. Vignali , K. Iwasawa , N. Cappelluti , E. Rovilos , I. Georgantopoulos , M. Brusa , F. Vito

The X-ray spectra of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) carry the signatures of the emission from the central region, close to the Super Massive Black Hole (SMBH). For this reason, the study of deep X-ray spectra is a powerful instrument to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 S. Falocco , F. J. Carrera , A. Corral , E. Laird , K. Nandra , X. Barcons , M. J. Page , J. Digby-North

The X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) unveil properties of matter around the super massive black hole (SMBH). We investigate the X-ray spectra of AGN focusing on Compton reflection and fluorescence, important processes of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-12 S. Falocco , F. J. Carrera , X. Barcons , G. Miniutti , A. Corral

The relativistically broadened Fe K$\alpha$ line, originating from the accretion disc in a vicinity of a super massive black hole, is observed in only less than 50\% of type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). In this study we investigate could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Milan Milošević , Miika A. Pursiainen , Predrag Jovanović , Luka Č. Popović

We present preliminary results on the properties of relativistically broadened Fe K-alpha lines in a collection of more then 100 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed by the XMM-Newton EPIC-pn camera. Our main conclusions can be summarized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Guainazzi , S. Bianchi , M. Dovciak

Using XRISM/Resolve $439 \, \rm ks$ time-averaged spectra of the well-known Seyfert-1.5 active galactic nucleus (AGN) in NGC 3783, we investigate the nature of the Fe K$\alpha$ emission line at 6.4 keV, the strongest and most common X-ray…

We present here a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of the AGN belonging to the XMM-Newton bright survey (XBS) that comprises more than 300 AGN up to redshift ~ 2.4. We performed an X-ray analysis following two different approaches: by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Corral , R. Della Ceca , A. Caccianiga , P. Severgnini , H. Brunner , F. J. Carrera , M. J. Page , A. D. Schwope

Accretion models predict that fluorescence lines broadened by relativistic effects should arise from reflection of X-ray emission onto the inner region of the accretion disc surrounding the central black hole of active galactic nuclei…

In this chapter we discuss the X-ray radiation from relativistic accretion disks around supermassive black holes, supposed to exist in the centers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Our focus is on the X-ray radiation, especially in the Fe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-25 Predrag Jovanović , Luka Č. Popović

Here we discuss the effects of strong gravity that can be observed in electromagnetic spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN). According to the unification model of an AGN, there is a supermassive black hole ($10^7 - 10^9 M_\odot$) in its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 P. Jovanović , L. Č. Popović

We examine the accretion properties in a sample of 42 hard (3-60keV) X-ray selected nearby broad-line AGNs. The energy range in the sample is harder than that usually used in the similar previous studies. These AGNs are mainly complied from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 J. Wang , Y. F. Mao , J. Y. Wei

The broadband X-ray spectra of AGNs contains information about the nuclear environment from Schwarzschild radii scales to distances of ~1 pc. In addition, the average shape of the X-ray spectrum is an important input into X-ray background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. R. Ballantyne

Kilo-parsec scale hard ($>$ 3 keV) X-ray continuum and fluorescent Fe K$\alpha$ line emission has been recently discovered in nearby Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGN), which opens new opportunities to improve AGN torus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Jingzhe Ma , Martin Elvis , G. Fabbiano , Mislav Balokovic , W. Peter Maksym , Guido Risaliti

The aim of this work is to characterize the average Fe K emission properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the source rest-frame. We selected a sample of 248 AGNs from the 2XMM catalog, covering a wide redshift range 0 < z < 5 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-18 P. Chaudhary , M. Brusa , G. Hasinger , A. Merloni , A. Comastri , K. Nandra

The narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line is one of the main signatures of the reprocessing of X-ray radiation from the material surrounding supermassive black holes, and it has been found to be omnipresent in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Stephane Paltani , Kohei Ichikawa , Poshak Gandhi , Hisamitsu Awaki

We construct full broadband models in an analysis of Suzaku observations of nearby Seyfert 1 AGN (z<0.2) with exposures >50ks and with greater than 30000 counts in order to study their iron line profiles. This results in a sample of 46…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 A. R. Patrick , J. N. Reeves , D. Porquet , A. G. Markowitz , V. Braito , A. P. Lobban

The 6.4 keV Fe Ka emission line is a ubiquitous feature in X-ray spectra of AGN, and its properties track the interaction between the variable primary X-ray continuum and the surrounding structure from which it arises. We clarify the nature…

We present the results of a systematic analysis of Fe K emission lines in low-luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs) observed with ASCA. We used a sample of LLAGNs with small intrinsic absorption to compare with luminous AGNs and accretion models. Some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuichi Terashima , Naoko Iyomoto , Luis C. Ho , Andrew F. Ptak

In this paper, the dependence of the broad Fe K$\alpha$ line on the physical parameters of AGN, such as the black hole mass $M_{BH}$, accretion rate (equivalently represented by Eddington ratio $\lambda_{Edd}$), and optical classification,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-03 Zhu Liu , Weimin Yuan , Youjun Lu , Francisco J. Carrera , Serena Falocco , Xiao-Bo Dong

In spectra of many Seyfert galaxies there is a wide emission line of Fe $K_\alpha$. The line profile with two maxima supposes that the line emerges in innermost regions of an accretion disk around a black hole, hence, it is necessary to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. V. Repin , V. N. Lukash , V. N. Strokov
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