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We present analysis of NuSTAR X-ray observations in the 3-79 keV energy band of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4388, taken in 2013. The broadband sensitivity of NuSTAR, covering the Fe K$\alpha$ line and Compton reflection hump, enables tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 N. Kamraj , E. Rivers , F. A. Harrison , M. Brightman , M. Balokovic

We present Chandra imaging and spectral observations of Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4388. Three extended X-ray structures around the nucleus on kpc scale are well imaged, allowing an in-depth spatially resolved study. Both the extended hard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Huili Yi , Junfeng Wang , Xinwen Shu , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Cirino Pappalardo , Chen Wang , Hanbo Yu

We present an analysis of the time-averaged spectrum of the Seyfert-2 active galaxy NGC 4388, obtained by NICER. The intrinsic strength of the reflection spectrum in NGC 4388, the large collecting area and favorable pass band of NICER, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 J. M. Miller , E. Kammoun , R. M. Ludlam , K. Gendreau , Z. Arzoumanian , E. Cackett , F. Tombesi

We report results from the simultaneous XRISM (183 ks) and NuSTAR (62 ks) observations of the Seyfert-2 galaxy NGC 4388. This AGN has the brightest Fe K$\alpha$ line among Compton-thin, obscured sources. To model the reflection continuum…

We report results from a 2007 Suzaku observation of the Seyfert 1 AGN NGC 4593. The narrow Fe K alpha emission line has a FWHM width ~4000 km/s, indicating emission from >~ 5000 Rg. There is no evidence for a relativistically broadened Fe K…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Markowitz , J. N. Reeves

We investigate the X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 using the simultaneous Suzaku/NuSTAR observation and flux-resolved INTEGRAL spectra supplemented by Suzaku and XMM observations. Our best spectral solution indicates that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Michal Szanecki , Andrzej Niedzwiecki , Andrzej A. Zdziarski

We report on a study of the narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line and reflection spectrum in the well-known Seyfert-2 AGN, NGC 4388. X-ray spectra summed from two extensive NICER monitoring campaigns, separated by years, show strong evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 B. Gediman , J. M. Miller , A. Zoghbi , P. Draghis , Z. Arzoumanian , W. N . Brandt , K. Gendreau

We present results on the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC4388 in the Virgo cluster observed with ASCA during its PV phase. The 0.5-10 keV X-ray spectrum consists of multiple components; (1) a continuum component heavily absorbed by a column density NH…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Iwasawa , A. C. Fabian , S. Ueno , H. Awaki , Y. Fukazawa , K. Matsushita , K. Makishima

We present a spectral analysis of the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert 1h galaxy/ULIRG IRAS 05189-2524 taken in 2013. We find evidence for relativistic disk reflection in the broadband X-ray spectrum: a highly asymmetric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Yanjun Xu , Mislav Balokovic , Dominic J. Walton , Fiona A. Harrison , Javier A. Garcia , Michael J. Koss

We report on the results of detailed X-ray spectroscopy of the Fe K region in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 from five ~170 ks observations with the Chandra high energy gratings. Monitoring was conducted over an interval of ~125 days in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Yaqoob , J. N. Reeves , A. Markowitz , P. J. Serlemitsos , U. Padmanabhan

Mkn 3 is a Seyfert 2 galaxy that is widely regarded as an exemplary Compton-thick AGN. We study the Suzaku X-ray spectrum using models of the X-ray reprocessor that self-consistently account for the Fe K$\alpha$ fluorescent emission line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 T. Yaqoob , M. M. Tatum , A. Scholtes , A. Gottlieb , T. J. Turner

We present an analysis of a sample of Seyfert 1 galaxies observed with Suzaku. The aim of this work is to examine critically the evidence for a relativistic Fe K alpha line in the X-ray spectra of these AGN. The sample was compiled from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Giulia Mantovani , Kirpal Nandra , Gabriele Ponti

We present the broad-band 0.6-150 keV Suzaku and Swift BAT spectra of the low luminosity Seyfert galaxy, NGC 7213. The time-averaged continuum emission is well fitted by a single powerlaw of photon index Gamma = 1.75 and from consideration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 A. P. Lobban , J. N. Reeves , D. Porquet , V. Braito , A. Markowitz , L. Miller , T. J. Turner

Scanning and pointed RXTE observations of the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 6300 reveal that it is a source of hard X-ray continuum and large equivalent width Fe K$\alpha$ emission. These properties are characteristic of Compton-reflection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. M. Leighly , J. P. Halpern , H. Awaki , M. Cappi , S. Ueno , J. Siebert

We have obtained a broad-band spectrum of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2273 with Suzaku. The spectrum reveals the first detection of hard X-rays above ~10 keV from NGC 2273. The broad-band spectrum is well represented by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-28 H. Awaki , Y. Terashima , Y. Higaki , Y. Fukazawa

We have analyzed a Suzaku long-look of the active galactic nucleus MCG-2-58-22, a type 1.5 Seyfert with very little X-ray absorption in the line of sight and prominent features arising from reflection off circumnuclear material: the Fe line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elizabeth Rivers , Alex Markowitz , Richard Rothschild

The X-ray spectra of two intermediate type Seyfert galaxies are investigated using ASCA observations separated by more than a year. Both NGC 4388 and ESO 103-G35 exhibit strong, narrow Fe K alpha line emission and absorption by cold neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Forster , Karen M. Leighly , Laura E. Kay

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

The observation of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS13349+2438 performed by XMM-Newton European Photon Imaging Camera between 0.3-10 keV, is presented here. The broadband spectrum of the source is dominated at low energies (E < 2 keV)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Longinotti , M. Cappi , K. Nandra , M. Dadina , S. Pellegrini , ;

We present first INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton observations of a Seyfert galaxy, the type 2 AGN NGC 4388. Several INTEGRAL observations performed in 2003 allow us to study the spectrum in the 20 - 300 keV range. In addition two XMM-Newton…

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