The complicated nature of the X-ray emission from the field of the strongly lensed hyperluminous infrared galaxy PJ1053+60 at <i>z</i> = 3.549
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Abstract
ABSTRACT We present an analysis of XMM–Newton X-ray observations of PJ1053+60, a hyperluminous infrared galaxy (HyLIRG) at z = 3.549 that is strongly lensed by a foreground group at z = 0.837. We also present GNIRS spectroscopy confirming the presence of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) to the south-west of PJ1053+60 ($\rm AGN_{\rm SW}$) at $z_{\mathrm{SW}}=1.373\pm 0.006$. Using this redshift prior, we decompose the X-ray spectrum of PJ1053+60 into $\rm AGN_{\rm SW}$ and high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) components from the HyLIRG. The HMXB component has an unusually high luminosity, $\sim 50$ times higher than calibration derived from local galaxies, and a characteristic photon index likely too flat to be caused by HMXBs at rest frame energies above a few keV. Our 2D spatial decomposition also suggests a similarly high X-ray HMXB luminosity, although the limited spatial resolution prevents meaningful morphological constraints on the component. We conclude that the enhanced X-ray emission may only be explained by the presence of another AGN ($\rm AGN_{\rm FG}$) embedded in the foreground group lensing the PJ1053+60 system. The presence of $\rm AGN_{\rm FG}$ is further supported by the detection of a point-like radio continuum source in the VLA 6GHz image that coincides with the brightest group galaxy of the foreground lens. Our study demonstrates the limited capability of current X-ray observatories while highlighting the need for higher angular resolution observations to definitively characterize the nature of X-ray emission in distant, strongly lensed HyLIRGs.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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