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In this work, the analysis of multi-epoch (1995-2010) X-ray observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy H0557-385 is presented. The wealth of data presented in this analysis show that the source exhibits dramatic spectral variability, from a…

The bright Narrow Emission Line Galaxy, NGC 5506, has been observed simultaneously by XMM-Newton and BeppoSAX. The iron line is complex, with at least two components: one narrow and corresponding to neutral iron, the second one broad and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Matt , M. Guainazzi , G. C. Perola , F. Fiore , F. Nicastro , M. Cappi , L. Piro

The INTEGRAL mission provides a large data set for studying the hard X-ray properties of AGN and allows to test the unified scheme for AGN. We present results based on the analysis of 199 AGN. A difference between the Seyfert types is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-26 V. Beckmann , C. Ricci , S. Soldi , J. Alfonso-Garzon , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , A. Domingo , N. Gehrels , P. Lubinski , J. M. Mas-Hesse , A. A. Zdziarski

We present the result of the Chandra high-resolution observation of the Seyfert~2 galaxy NGC 7590. This object was reported to show no X-ray absorption in the low-spatial resolution ASCA data. The XMM observations show that the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Xinwen Shu , Junxian Wang , Teng Liu , Wei Zheng

We present the results of the latest NuSTAR monitoring campaign of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, composed of four $\sim$50 ks observations performed between July 2017 and February 2018 to search for flux and spectral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-17 A. Zaino , S. Bianchi , A. Marinucci , G. Matt , F. E. Bauer , W. N. Brandt , P. Gandhi , M. Guainazzi , K. Iwasawa , S. Puccetti , C. Ricci , D. J. Walton

Winds outflowing from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) may carry significant amount of mass and energy out to their host galaxies. In this paper we report the detection of a sub-relativistic outflow observed in the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy…

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 a detailed analysis of a long, 100 ksec, observation of NGC 4151 by ASCA, contemporaneous with an observation by the CGRO/OSSE. We fit the data with physical models including an Fe K line and Compton reflection both…

BeppoSAX observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 for ~ 5 days from 1998 June 6 to 1998 June 10. The average flux during the observation was F(2-10 keV) ~ 6 X 10^{-11} erg cm^-2 s^-1. The long exposure provided a very high quality spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. De Rosa , L. Piro , F. Fiore , P. Grandi , L. Maraschi , G. Matt , F. Nicastro , P. O. Petrucci

We present a detailed analysis of the intrinsic X-ray absorption in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 using Chandra/HETGS data obtained 2002 May, as part of a program which included simultaneous UV spectra using HST/STIS and FUSE. NGC 4151 was…

We present two BeppoSAX observations of the bright Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC3516, performed four months apart (late 1996/early 1997). The earlier spectrum is considerably weaker and harder in the whole 0.1-50 keV energy range. In addition, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Guainazzi , W. Marshall , A. N. Parmar

We present a near-infrared study of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC\,6300, based on subarcsecond images and long slit spectroscopy obtained with Flamingos-2 at Gemini South. We have found that the peak of the nuclear continuum emission in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-08 Gaia Gaspar , Rubén Díaz , Damián Mast , Ary D'Ambra , María Paz Agüero , Guillermo Günthardt

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 the analysis of four NuSTAR observations of the luminous infrared galaxy merger NGC 6240, hosting a close pair of highly obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). Over a period of about two years, the source exhibits hard X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Emanuele Nardini

We present new spectropolarimetry of a sample of nearby Compton-thin Seyfert 2 galaxies (ie those with N_H<10^23 cm^-2). We show that the detection rate of scattered broad Halpha in this sample is considerably higher than in Seyfert 2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Lumsden , D. M. Alexander , J. H. Hough

An enigmatic group of objects, unabsorbed Seyfert 2s may have intrinsically weak broad line regions, obscuration in the line of sight to the BLR but not to the X-ray corona, or so much obscuration that the X-ray continuum is completely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 E. Rivers , M. Brightman , S. Bianchi , G. Matt , K. Nandra , Y. Ueda

NGC 3147 is so far the most convincing case of a "true" Seyfert 2 galaxy, i.e. a source genuinely lacking the Broad Line Regions. We obtained a Suzaku observation with the double aim to study in more detail the iron line complex, and to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Matt , S. Bianchi , M. Guainazzi , X. Barcons , F. Panessa

We present a sample of twenty-one ROSAT bright active galactic nuclei (AGN), representing a range of spectral classes, and selected for follow-up snap-shot observations with XMM-Newton. The typical exposure was between 5-10 ks. The objects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. C. Gallo , I. Lehmann , W. Pietsch , Th. Boller , W. Brinkmann , P. Friedrich , D. Grupe

We have analyzed archival \textit{Chandra} and \textit{XMM-Newton} data for two nearly complete homogeneously selected samples of type 2 Seyfert galaxies (Sy2s). These samples were selected based on intrinsic Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Stephanie M. LaMassa , T. M. Heckman , A. Ptak , L. Martins , V. Wild , P. Sonnentrucker , A. Hornschemeier

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…