Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of NGC 7469: Simultaneous<i>Chandra</i>,<i>FUSE</i>, and STIS Observations
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Abstract
We present simultaneous X-ray, far-ultraviolet, and near-ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 obtained with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory , the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer , and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope . Previous nonsimultaneous observations of this galaxy found two distinct UV absorption components, at -560 and -1900 km s -1 , with the former as the likely counterpart of the X-ray absorber. We confirm these two absorption components in our new UV observations, in which we detect prominent O VI, Lyα, N V, and C IV absorption. In our Chandra spectrum we detect O VIII emission, but no significant O VIII or O VII absorption. We also detect a prominent Fe Kα emission line in the Chandra spectrum, as well as absorption due to hydrogen-like and helium-like neon, magnesium, and silicon at velocities consistent with the -560 km s -1 UV absorber. The FUSE and STIS data reveal that the H I and C IV column densities in this UV- and X-ray-absorbing component have increased over time, as the UV continuum flux decreased. We use measured H I, N V, C IV, and O VI column densities to model the photoionization state of both absorbers self-consistently. We confirm the general physical picture of the outflow in which the low-velocity component is a highly ionized, high-density absorber with a total column density of 10 20 cm -2 , located near the broad emission-line region, although due to measurable columns of N V and C IV, we assign it a somewhat smaller ionization parameter than found previously, U ~ 1. The high-velocity UV component is of lower density, log N = 18.6, and likely resides farther from the central engine, as we find its ionization parameter to be U = 0.08.
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| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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