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We present a detailed analysis on the variability of the Fe K emission line in NGC 4051 using ASCA data. Through simple Gaussian line fits, we find not only obvious Fe K line variability with no significant difference in the X-ray continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. X. Wang , Y. Y. Zhou , H. G. Xu , T. G. Wang

The majority of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) observed by XMM-Newton reveal narrow Fe K-alpha lines at ~ 6.4 keV, due to emission from cold (neutral) material. There is an X-ray Baldwin effect in Type I AGN, in that the equivalent width of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Page , P. T. O'Brien , J. N. Reeves , M. J. L. Turner

The absolute luminosity of the Fe Kalpha emission line from matter illuminated by X-rays in astrophysical sources is nontrivial to calculate except when the line-emitting medium is optically-thin to absorption and scattering. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 T. Yaqoob , K. D. Murphy , L. Miller , T. J. Turner

We investigate the spectral properties of the UV ($\lambda\lambda$2650-3050 \AA) and optical ($\lambda\lambda$4000-5500 \AA) Fe II emission features in a sample of 293 type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-25 Jelena Kovacevic-Dojcinovic , Luka C. Popovic

Short X-ray reverberation lags are seen across a broad Fe-K energy band in more than twenty active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This broad iron line feature in the lag spectrum is most significant in super-Eddington sources such as Ark 564…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Misaki Mizumoto , Ken Ebisawa , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Chris Done , Kouichi Hagino , Hirokazu Odaka

We point out that luminous magnetic flares, thought to occur in standard AGN accretion disks, cannot be located much higher than few pressure scale heights above the disk. Using this fact, we estimate the fraction of the disk surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sergei Nayakshin , Demosthenes Kazanas

The newly operational X-ray satellite Suzaku observed the southwestern quadrant of the supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 86 in February 2006 to study the nature of the 6.4 keV emission line first detected with the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology…

We have investigated the nature and origin of the Fe K emission lines in Mrk~205 using observations with {\it Suzaku} and {\it XMM-Newton}, aiming to resolve the ambiguity between a broad emission line and multiple unresolved lines of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 Sibasish Laha , Ritesh Ghosh , Shruti Tripathi , Matteo Guainazzi

This paper discusses the properties of scattering--dominated active galactic nuclei (AGN). We define these to be AGN for which the direct line-of-sight to the continuum source is obscured by Compton-thick material. The aim is to construct,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. Netzer , T. J. Turner , I. M. George

We present a comprehensive spectroscopic and variability-based characterisation of a sample of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) hosting low mass black holes, identified by $H\beta$ full width at half maximum (FWHM) $< 2200$ km…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-09 Himanshu Sharma , Vivek Kumar Jha , Hum Chand , Swayamtrupta Panda

A strong X-ray emission is one of the defining signatures of nuclear activity in galaxies. According to the Unified Model for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), both the X-ray radiation and the prominent broad emission lines, characterizing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 G. La Mura , M. Berton , S. Ciroi , V. Cracco , F. Di Mille , P. Rafanelli

We extend the study of the core of the Fe K$\alpha$ emission line at \sim 6.4 keV in Seyfert galaxies reported in Yaqoob & Padmanabhan (2004) using a larger sample observed by the Chandra High Energy Grating (HEG). Whilst heavily obscured…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 X. W. Shu , T. Yaqoob , J. X. Wang

While a broad profile of the Fe K$\alpha$ emission line is frequently found in the X-ray spectra of typical Seyfert galaxies, the situation is unclear in the case of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s)---an extreme subset which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhu Liu , Weimin Yuan , Youjun Lu , Xin-Lin Zhou

We present imaging and spatially resolved spectral analyses of eight Chandra data taken for the Circinus galaxy in $\approx$ 22 years to reveal neutral iron-K$\alpha$ emission on a circumnuclear scale ($\sim$ 10--100 pc) and search for time…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Aiko Miyamoto , Taiki Kawamuro , Hirokazu Odaka , Takuma Izumi , Hironori Matsumoto

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

We present a catalog of the millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum properties of 98 nearby ($z <$ 0.05) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the 70-month Swift/BAT hard X-ray catalog that have precisely determined X-ray spectral…

We present results from Chandra HETGS (250 ks over two epochs) and XMM-Newton EPIC and RGS (60 ks) observations of NGC 2110, which has been historically classified as a Narrow Emission Line Galaxy galaxy. Our results support the…

A bright, nearby edge-on starburst galaxy NGC 253 was studied using the Suzaku, XMM and Chandra X-ray observatories. We detected with Suzaku and XMM complex line structure of Fe K, which is resolved into three lines (Fe I at 6.4 keV, Fe XXV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Noriko Y. Yamasaki , Yoh Takei

We present the emission properties of a sample of 3,579 type 1 AGN, selected based on the detection of broad H-alpha emission. The sample covers the range of black hole mass 10^6<M_BH/M_Sun<10^9.5 and luminosity in Eddington units 10^-3 <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-23 Jonathan Stern , Ari Laor

This paper reports on a partially simultaneous observation of the bright Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk590, performed by XMM-Newton and Chandra. The long exposure (~100 ks) allows to investigate with great detail the Fe K complex at 6-7 keV and the…