2022MNRAS.511.1420T -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 511, 1420-1430 (2022/March-3)
Tracking X-ray outflows with optical/infrared footprint lines.
TRINDADE FALCAO A., KRAEMER S.B., CRENSHAW D.M., MELENDEZ M., REVALSKI M., FISCHER T.C., SCHMITT H.R. and TURNER T.J.
Abstract (from CDS):
We use cloudy photoionization models to predict the flux profiles for optical/infrared (IR) emission lines that trace the footprint of X-ray gas, such as [Fe X] 6375 Å and [Si X] 1.43 µm. These are subset of coronal lines, from ions with ionization potential greater than or equal to that of O VII, i.e. 138 eV. The footprint lines are formed in gas over the same range in ionization state as the H- and He-like of O and Ne ions, which are also the source of X-ray emission lines. The footprint lines can be detected with optical and IR telescopes, such as the Hubble Space Telescope/STIS and James Webb Space Telescope/NIRSpec, and can potentially be used to measure the kinematics of the extended X-ray emission gas. As a test case, we use the footprints to quantify the properties of the X-ray outflow in the type 1 Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. To confirm the accuracy of our method, we compare our model predictions to the measured flux from archival STIS spectra and previous ground-based studies, and the results are in good agreement. We also use our X-ray footprint method to predict the mass profile for the X-ray emission-line gas in NGC 4151 and derive a total spatially integrated X-ray mass of 7.8(±2.1) ×105 M☉, in comparison to 5.4(±1.1) ×105 M☉ measured from a Chandra X-ray analysis. Our results indicate that high-ionization footprint emission lines in the optical and near-IR can be used to accurately trace the kinematics and physical conditions of active galactic nucleus-ionized, X-ray emission-line gas.
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© 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society
Journal keyword(s):
galaxies: active - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: Seyfert - X-rays: galaxies
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