2024ApJ...963....6T -
Astrophys. J., 963, 6 (2024/March-1)
Discovery of Kiloparsec-scale Semirelativistic Fe Kα Complex Emission in NGC 5728.
TRINDADE FALCAO A., FABBIANO G., ELVIS M., PAGGI A., MAKSYM W.P. and KAROVSKA M.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present Chandra ACIS-S imaging spectroscopy results of the extended (1.″5-8″, 300-1600 pc) hard X-ray emission of NGC 5728, the host galaxy of a Compton-thick active galactic nucleus. We find spectrally and spatially resolved features in the Fe Kα complex (5.0-7.5 keV) redward and blueward of the neutral Fe line at 6.4 keV in the extended narrow-line region bicone. A simple phenomenological fit of a power law plus Gaussians gives a significance of 5.4σ and 3.7σ for the red and blue wings, respectively. Fits to a suite of physically consistent models confirm a significance of ≥3σ for the red wing. The significance of the blue wing may be diminished by the presence of rest-frame highly ionized Fe XXV and Fe XXVI lines (1.4σ-3.7σ range). A detailed investigation of the Chandra ACIS-S point-spread function and comparison with the observed morphology demonstrates that these red and blue wings are radially extended (∼5″, ∼1 kpc) along the optical bicone axis. If the wing emission is due solely to redshifted and blueshifted high-velocity neutral Fe Kα, then the implied line-of-sight velocities are ± ∼0.1c, and their fluxes are consistent with being equal. A symmetric high-velocity outflow is then a viable explanation. This outflow has deprojected velocities ∼100 times larger than the outflows detected in optical spectroscopic studies, potentially dominating the kinetic feedback power.
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© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
AGN host galaxies - X-ray active galactic nuclei
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