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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

The Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 is known to exhibit significant X-ray spectral/flux variations and have a number of emission/absorption features. X-ray observations have revealed that these absorption features are blueshifted,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-24 Misaki Mizumoto , Ken Ebisawa

We present and analyze a pointed ROSAT PSPC observation of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051. The X-ray spectrum consists of a powerlaw modified by absorption edges and an additional soft excess during the high-state in source flux. Modeling the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefanie Komossa , Henner Fink

(Abridged) Using a 100 ks XMM-Newton exposure of NGC 4051, we show that the time evolution of the ionization state of the X-ray absorbers in response to the rapid and highly variable X-ray continuum constrains all the main physical 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 present a high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic study of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 using two XMM-Newton high-resolution Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) observations. The spectra reveal three distinct layers of…

We present an analysis of the X-ray time lags for the highly variable Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051, based on a series of XMM-Newton observations taken in 2009. We investigate the Fourier frequency dependent time lags in the light curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-26 W. N. Alston , S. Vaughan , P. Uttley

An extended XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 in 2009 revealed an unusually rich absorption spectrum with outflow velocities, in both RGS and EPIC spectra, up to ~ 9000 km/s (Pounds and Vaughan 2011). Evidence was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ken Pounds , Andrew King

Actively accreting supermassive black holes significantly impact the evolution of their host galaxies, truncating further star formation by expelling large fractions of gas with wide-angle outflows. The X-ray band is key to understanding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 A. Ogorzalek , A. L. King , S. W. Allen , J. C. Raymond , D. R. Wilkins

An extended XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 has revealed a rich absorption line spectrum indicating the presence of a photoionized outflow with a wide range of velocities and ionization parameter. At low continuum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 K. A. Pounds , S. Vaughan

We present both phenomenological and more physical photoionization models of the Chandra HETG spectra of the Seyfert-1 AGN NGC 4051. We detect 40 absorption and emission lines, encompassing highly ionized charge states from O, Ne, Mg, Si, S…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ashley L. King , Jon M. Miller , John Raymond

To investigate the origins of the warm absorbers in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we study the ionization-state structure of the radiation-driven fountain model in a low-mass AGN (Wada et al. 2016) and calculate the predicted X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Shoji Ogawa , Yoshihiro Ueda , Keiichi Wada , Misaki Mizumoto

We discuss the power of time-evolving photoionization as a diagnostic tool to measure the electron density of photoionized gas. We apply this technique to a XMM-Newton observation of the ionized absorber in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051,…

We present the long term, frequency-dependent, X-ray time lags of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051. We used Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer light curves in the 2-4, 4-7 and 7-10 keV bands and we measured the time-lags at $10^{-7}-10^{-6}$ Hz. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 I. E. Papadakis , A. Rigas , A. Markowitz , I. M. McHardy

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

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

An extended XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 in 2009 detected a photo-ionized outflow with a complex absorption line velocity structure and a broad correlation of velocity with ionization parameter, shown in Pounds et…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 K. A. Pounds , S. Vaughan

In about half of Seyfert galaxies, the X-ray emission is absorbed by an optically thin, ionized medium, the so-called "Warm Absorber", whose origin and location is still a matter of debate. The aims of this paper is to put more constraints…

The narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy I Zwicky 1 shows a unique and complex system of ionised gas in outflow, which consists of an ultra-fast wind and a two-component warm absorber. In the last two decades, XMM-Newton monitored the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Daniele Rogantini , Elisa Costantini , Luigi Gallo , Dan Wilkins , Niel Brandt , Missagh Mehdipour

The Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC4051 shows unusual low flux states, lasting several months, when the 2-10 keV X-ray spectrum becomes unusually hard (photon index<1) while the spectrum at lower X-ray energies is dominated by a large soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Uttley , R. D. Taylor , I. M. McHardy , M. J. Page , K. O. Mason , G. Lamer , A. Fruscione
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