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2021RNAAS...5...65P - Research Notes of the AAS, 5, 65 (2021/March-0)

The Distance of the Narrow FeKalpha Emitting Region for a Sample of Compton-thin Type-II Active Galactic Nuclei.

PAL M.

Abstract (from CDS):

I have studied the variability of the FeKα emission line flux in response to changes in the 2-10 keV unabsorbed flux in a sample of Compton thin type-II active galactic nuclei. All of the 20 sources in the sample studied by Laha et al., exhibit the presence of a narrow FeKα emission line. Except for one source (NGC 2992), all other sources show no correlations between the FeKα emission line flux and 2-10 keV unabsorbed flux. This implies that although most of the sources have shown significant variations in their 2-10 keV flux, the FeKα emission line did not get enough time to respond to those changes. This helps us put lower limits on the distance of the FeKα emitters to >10 lt-yr from the central engine, equivalent to ∼3 pc which is consistent with the standard torus/narrow-line-region distance. I conclude that the FeKα emission lines of these sources arise from reflection of the hard X-ray photons off neutral materials located beyond pcscale.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Active galactic nuclei

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