NuSTAR spectral analysis of the two bright Seyfert 1 galaxies: MCG and NGC Alessia Tortosa Università Roma Tre

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1 NuSTAR spectral analysis of the two bright Seyfert 1 galaxies: MCG and NGC 6814 Alessia Tortosa Università Roma Tre From the Dolomites to the event horizon: sledging down the black hole potential well. SEXTEN - 10/07/2017

2 Overview MCG z = F 2 10keV = ergcm 2 s 1 log M BH M =8.07 ± 0.02 F keV = ergcm 2 s 1 Bianchi et al., 2010 Suzaku+Swift BAT best-fit model in the whole kev band, and contour plot (Bianchi et al., 2010) Suzaku + Swift BAT (Bianchi et al., 2010; Mantovani et al., 2016): relativistic FeKα line + narrow component with no associated reflection component + Fe XXVI line emission; ASCA and OSSE (Grandi 1998): absorbed power law, Γ=1.73 & Ec 250 kev + reflection component + cold iron line; +318 BeppoSAX (Perola 2000): Γ=1.84 ± 0.05 & E c = kev; XMM-Newton (Matt et al., 2006): lack of a soft excess + a large reflection component + narrow iron line + Fe XXVI line emission. z = NGC 6814 F 2 10keV = ergcm 2 s 1 log M BH M = F keV = ergcm 2 s 1 Walton et al., kev XIS light curve for the Sukazu observation (Walton et al., 2013) INTEGRAL (Malizia et al., 2014): quite flat spectrum Γ=1.68 & Ec 190 kev; XMM-Newton (Ricci et al., 2014): FeKα line with EW 84 ev; Suzaku (Walton et al., 2013): no soft excess, fairly hard photon index Γ=1.53, variability.

3 NuSTAR Observation MCG NGC ks observation in the NuSTAR AO2 (on 2016, August 19) 150 ks observation in the NuSTAR AO2 (on 2016, July, 04) Why? To investigate the Comptonization mechanisms acting in the innermost regions of AGN and which are believed to be responsible for the X-ray emission; NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Array) works in the band 3-79 kev; First focusing hard X-ray (10-79 kev) telescope in orbit; ~100 times more sensitive in the kev band than any previous mission working in this band;

4 AGN in X-Rays X-RAYS EMISSION: In AGN the primary X-ray emission is due to Inverse Compton by electrons in a hot corona of the UV/soft X-ray disc photons. PRIMARY POWER-LAW: Power-law with photon index and cutoff energy directly related to the temperature and to the optical depth of the coronal plasma. Most popular Comptonization models imply: Ec=2-3 kte kev 2 (Photons cm -2 s -1 kev -1 ) Ec=50 kev Ec=100 kev Ec=150 kev counts per unit energy (arb) Incident power-law Reynolds et al., 1996 REPROCESSED EMISSION: Energy (kev) Typical X-ray features of the reflection by cold circumnuclear material include intense Fe Kα 6.4 kev and the associated Compton reflection continuum ~30 kev. Energy (kev)

5 Analysis MCG NGC 6814 MCG MCG NGC 6814 NGC FPMA FPMB FPMA FPMB Both sources show variability in their light curves but since no significant spectral variation is found in the ratio between the and 3-10 kev count rates we used time-averaged spectra in our analysis. MCG NGC 6814 count/sec FPMA+FPMB 3 10 kev count/sec FPMA+FPMB 3 10 kev count sec FPMA+FPMB kev count sec FPMA+FPMB kev 10 80/ Time (s) 10 80/ Time (s)

6 Model Bianchi et al., 2010 Relxill (García et al. 2014) Primary X-ray emission; Relativistic disk reflection; Cold, distant reflection; Narrow Fe XXVI line Fe XXVI - ZGAUSS Xillver (García & Kallman 2010; García et al. 2013) Walton et al., kev (MCG ) Photons cm 2 s 1 kev Photons s -1 kev -1 1 cm Theoretical Model MCG Power law with exponential cutoff Energy (kev) Energy (kev) Tortosa et al., in prep

7 Spectral Parameters MCG NGC 6814 Γ = 1.77 ± 0.04 E c = kev R refl = 0.25 ± Γ = E c = kev R refl = counts s -1 kev -1 cm FPMA MCG FPMB MCG FPMA NGC 6814 FPMB NGC Tortosa et al., in prep Energy (kev) atortosa 1 Jun :09 Energy (kev)

8 Spectral Parameters MCG NGC 6814 Γ = 1.77 ± 0.04 E c = kev R refl = 0.25 ± Γ = E c = kev R refl = FPMA MCG FPMB MCG FPMA NGC 6814 FPMB NGC 6814 Relativistic FeKα line with the associated reflection component, 10 4 moderately broad; counts s 10 5 iron overabundance, or alternatively produced in 0 Tortosa et al., in prep Cutoff energy measurement; Narrow component of the FeKα line due to a large distant Compton thin material; Energy (kev) atortosa 1 Jun :09 Energy (kev)

9 Spectral Parameters MCG NGC 6814 MCG NGC 6814 ỉ Γ x 68% confidence level 90% confidence level 99% confidence level ỉ Γ x 68% confidence level 90% confidence level 99% confidence level Ecut (kev) Ec (kev) Ec NGC Ecut (kev) 6814 (kev) R R x 68% confidence level 90% confidence level 99% confidence level Ecut (kev) Ec (kev) R R x 68% confidence level 90% confidence level 99% confidence level Ecut (kev) Ec (kev)

10 Coronal Parameters The coronal temperature is expected to be related to the cutoff energy by Ec=2-3 x kte (Petrucci 2000, 2001) CompTT (Titarchuk et al., 1994) convolved with the REFLECT model in XSPEC (reflection from neutral material according to the method of Magdziarz & Zdziarski, 1995) MCG SLAB NGC 6814 kt = kev τ τ = 0.17 ± 0.1 τ = MCG NGC 6814 x x kt (kev) SPHERE kt= kev 50 kt = kev 70 kt = τ = τ NGC 6814 x x MGC kt (kev) τ = kev

11 Θ-l plane Θ electron temperature normalized to the electron rest energy l the dimensionless compactness parameter e = kt e m e c 2 ` = L R T m e c 3 Fabian et al., 2015 Fabian et al., 2015 Summary of the theoretical understanding of the Θ-l plane. Θ-l distribution for NuSTAR observed AGN (blue points) and BHB (red points)

12 Θ-l plane Θ electron temperature normalized to the electron rest energy l the dimensionless compactness parameter e = kt e m e c 2 ` = L R T m e c 3 Fabian et al., 2015 Fabian et al., 2015 Extrapolated kev Luminosity of the power-law component Summary of the theoretical understanding of the plane. Θ-l points) and BHB (red points)

13 Θ-l plane Θ electron temperature normalized to the electron rest energy l the dimensionless compactness parameter e = kt e m e c 2 ` = L R T m e c 3 Fabian et al., 2015 Radius of the spherical corona. Fabian et al., 2015 We assume R = 10Rg Summary of the theoretical understanding of the plane. Θ-l points) and BHB (red points)

14 Θ-l plane MCG NGC 6814 e = e = ` = 27 ± 12(R 10 ) 1 ` = 14.5 ± 4.5(R 10 ) 1 Fabian et al., 2015 MCG NGC 6814 Fabian et al., 2015 Summary of the theoretical understanding of the Θ-l plane. Θ-l distribution for NuSTAR observed AGN (blue points) and BHB (red points)

15 Looking for correlations Unobscured nearby Seyfert Galaxies observed by NuSTAR

16 Looking for correlations Photon Index Eddington ratio Preliminary Result Preliminary Result

17 Looking for correlations Fitting only the sources with cutoff measurements, with a simple linear relation: Photon Index Eddington ratio Preliminary Result Preliminary Result

18 Looking for correlations Fitting only the sources with cutoff measurements, with a simple linear relation: Photon Index Eddington ratio Preliminary Result Preliminary Result NGC6814 MCG MCG NGC6814

19 Conclusion Cutoff measurements; Relativistic broadened FeKα line with disk reflection component; Narrow FeKα line due to a large iron overabundance, or alternatively produced in distant Compton thin material; Estimated Eddington ratio η=0.01 for MCG and η=0.09 for NGC 6814; Both sources are located against the pair runaway line like most of the sources among those analyzed by Fabian et al.; The observation of the two sources could helps to understand the physics of the corona-accretion disk system and its geometry, enriching our sample; Next step: fitting with the cutoff lower limits.

20 Thank You!