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2020ApJ...905..148B - Astrophys. J., 905, 148-148 (2020/December-3)

Chandra view of the LINER-type nucleus in the radio-loud galaxy CGCG 292-057: ionized iron line and Jet-ISM interactions.

BALASUBRAMANIAM K., STAWARZ L., MARCHENKO V., SOBOLEWSKA M., CHEUNG C.C., SIEMIGINOWSKA A., THIMMAPPA R. and KOSMACZEWSKI E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an analysis of the new, deep (94 ksec) Chandra ACIS-S observation of radio-loud active galaxy CGCG 292-057, characterized by a LINER-type nucleus and a complex radio structure that indicates intermittent jet activity. On the scale of the host galaxy bulge, we detected excess X-ray emission with a spectrum best fit by a thermal plasma model with a temperature of ∼0.8 keV. We argue that this excess emission results from compression and heating of the hot diffuse fraction of the interstellar medium displaced by the expanding inner, ∼20 kpc-scale lobes observed in this restarted radio galaxy. The nuclear X-ray spectrum of the target clearly displays an ionized iron line at ∼6.7 keV, and is best fitted with a phenomenological model consisting of a power-law (photon index ≃ 1.8) continuum absorbed by a relatively large amount of cold matter (hydrogen column density ≃0.7 x 1023 cm–2), and partly scattered (fraction ∼3%) by ionized gas, giving rise to a soft excess component and Kα line from iron ions. We demonstrate that the observed X-ray spectrum, particularly the equivalent width of Fe XXV Kα (of order 0.3 keV) can in principle, be explained in a scenario involving a Compton-thin gas located at the scale of the broad-lined region in this source and photoionized by nuclear illumination. We compare the general spectral properties of the CGCG 292-057 nucleus, with those of other nearby LINERs studied in X-rays.

Abstract Copyright: © 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): X-ray active galactic nuclei - Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei - Active galaxies - Relativistic jets - Intergalactic medium - LINER galaxies - Radio galaxies

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