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2012A&A...545A.148S - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 545A, 148-148 (2012/9-1)

Active galaxy 4U 1344-60: did the relativistic line disappear?

SVOBODA J., BIANCHI S., GUAINAZZI M., MATT G., PICONCELLI E., KARAS V. and DOVCIAK M.

Abstract (from CDS):

X-ray bright active galactic nuclei represent a unique astrophysical laboratory for studying accretion physics around super-massive black holes. 4U 1344-60 is a bright Seyfert galaxy which revealed relativistic reflection features in the archival XMM-Newton observation. We present the spectroscopic results of new data obtained with the Suzaku satellite and compare them with the previous XMM-Newton observation. The X-ray continuum of 4U 1344-60 can be well described by a power-law component with the photon index ≃1.7 modified by a fully and a partially covering local absorbers. We measured a substantial decrease of the fraction of the partially absorbed radiation from around 45% in the XMM-Newton observation to less than 10% in the Suzaku observation while the power-law slope remains constant within uncertainties. The iron line in the Suzaku spectrum is relatively narrow, σ=(0.08±0.02)keV, without any suggestion for relativistic broadening. Regarding this, we interpret the iron line in the archival XMM-Newton spectrum as a narrow line of the same width plus an additional red-shifted emission around 6.1keV. No evidence of the relativistic reflection is present in the Suzaku spectra. The detected red-shifted iron line during the XMM-Newton observation could be a temporary feature either due to locally enhanced emission or decreased ionisation in the innermost accretion flow.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: Seyfert - galaxies: individual: 4U 1344-60

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