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Most Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit a narrow Fe Kalpha line at ~ 6.4 keV in the X-ray spectra, due to the fluorescent emission from cold material far from the inner accretion disk. Using XMM-Newton observations, Page et al. found that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Jiang , J. X. Wang , T. G. Wang

We assemble a sample consisting of 66 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from literature and the {\em XMM-Newton} archive in order to investigate the origin of the 6.4 keV narrow iron K$\alpha$ line (NIKAL). The X-ray Baldwin effect of the NIKAL…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xin-Lin Zhou , Jian-Min Wang

Using Chandra High Energy Grating (HEG) observations of 32 AGNs, we present a systematic study of the X-ray Baldwin effect (XBE, i.e. the anti-correlation between narrow Fe K{\alpha} line EW and X-ray continuum luminosity for AGN samples)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xinwen Shu , Junxian Wang , Tahir Yaqoob , Peng Jiang , Youyuan Zhou

The narrow component of the iron K$\alpha$ is an almost ubiquitous feature in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and is believed to originate in neutral material, possibly located in the molecular torus. This would imply a…

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 present the first study of an Iwasawa-Taniguchi/X-ray Baldwin effect for Compton-thick active galactic nuclei (AGN). We report a statistically significant anti-correlation between the rest-frame equivalent width (EW) of the narrow core…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Peter G. Boorman , Poshak Gandhi , Mislav Balokovic , Murray Brightman , Fiona Harrison , Claudio Ricci , Daniel Stern

The anti-correlations between the equivalent widths of emission lines and the continuum luminosity in AGNs, known as the Baldwin effect are well established for broad lines, but are less well studied for narrow lines. In this paper we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kai Zhang , Ting-Gui Wang , C. Martin Gaskell , Xiao-Bo Dong

The properties of the fluorescence Fe K-alpha emission lines of a sample of 38 quasars (QSOs) observed with XMM-Newton are studied. These objects are included in the optically selected sample from the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey…

Several X-ray properties of active galactic nuclei depend, or appear to depend, on their luminosity. It has long been suggested that alpha o-x, the X-ray ``loudness'' decreases with luminosity. There never has been a satisfactory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Nandra

The existence of an anti-correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of the narrow core of the iron Kalpha line and the luminosity of the continuum (i.e. the X-ray Baldwin effect) in type-I active galactic nuclei has been confirmed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Claudio Ricci , Stephane Paltani , Hisamitsu Awaki , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Murray Brightman

The X-ray Baldwin effect is the inverse correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of the narrow component of the iron Kalpha line and the X-ray luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). A similar trend has also been observed between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Claudio Ricci , Stephane Paltani , Yoshihiro Ueda , Hisamitsu Awaki

The Baldwin Effect, a negative correlation between emission-line equivalent width and luminosity in active galactic nuclei, is still of interest as a diagnostic of accretion physics nearly thirty years after its discovery. This review…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joseph C. Shields

We report on the analysis of a large sample of 744 type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei, including quasars and Seyfert 1 galaxies across the redshift range from 0 < z < 5 and spanning nearly 6 orders of magnitude in continuum luminosity. We…

We present our discovery of a narrow-line Baldwin effect, an anti-correlation between the equivalent width (EW) of a line and the flux of the associated continuum, in 5-20$\mu$m mid-infared lines from a sample of 68 Active Galactic Nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 M. Keremedjiev , L. Hao , V. Charmandaris

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

A number of recent results from X-ray observations of Active Galactic Nuclei involving the Fe K alpha line (reduction of line variability compared to the X-ray continuum variability, the X-ray ``Baldwin effect'') were attributed to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. T. Zycki , A. Rozanska

We analyze X-ray spectra of heavily obscured (N_H > 10^{24} cm^{-2}) active galaxies obtained with Chandra, concentrating on the iron K alpha fluorescence line. We measure very large equivalent widths in most cases, up to 5 keV in the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. A. Levenson , J. H. Krolik , P. T. Zycki , T. M. Heckman , K. A. Weaver , H. Awaki , Y. Terashima

XMM-Newton observations of type I AGN are presented. The properties of the iron K emission line are reviewed, the majority of AGN observed by XMM-Newton show narrow, unresolved (by XMM) iron lines at 6.4 keV from cold matter that must…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Reeves

X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton have shown that there are relatively narrow cores to the iron K-alpha emission lines in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Plausible origins for this core emission include the outer regions of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nandra

We present the discovery of a Baldwin effect in 8 nearby Seyfert galaxies for the three most prominent mid-infrared forbidden emission lines observable from the ground that are commonly found in AGN, [ArIII](8.99 micron), [SIV](10.51…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-26 S. F. Hoenig , A. Smette , T. Beckert , H. Horst , W. Duschl , P. Gandhi , M. Kishimoto , G. Weigelt
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