Polarization constraints on the X-ray corona in Seyfert Galaxies: MCG-05-23-16-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Polarization constraints on the X-ray corona in Seyfert Galaxies: MCG-05-23-16

Published:2022-09-29 Issue:4 Volume:516 Page:5907-5913
ISSN:0035-8711
Container-title:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Marinucci A¹^ORCID,Muleri F²,Dovciak M³,Bianchi S⁴^ORCID,Marin F⁵^ORCID,Matt G⁴,Ursini F⁴^ORCID,Middei R⁶⁷^ORCID,Marshall H L⁸,Baldini L⁹¹⁰,Barnouin T⁵,Rodriguez N Cavero¹¹,De Rosa A²^ORCID,Di Gesu L¹,Harper D¹¹,Ingram A¹²^ORCID,Karas V³,Krawczynski H¹¹,Madejski G¹³,Panagiotou C⁸,Petrucci P O¹⁴,Podgorny J³⁵¹⁵,Puccetti S⁶,Tombesi F¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸,Veledina A¹⁹²⁰²¹^ORCID,Zhang W²²,Agudo I²³,Antonelli L A⁶⁷^ORCID,Bachetti M²⁴^ORCID,Baumgartner W H²⁵,Bellazzini R⁹,Bongiorno S D²⁵,Bonino R²⁶²⁷^ORCID,Brez A⁹,Bucciantini N²⁸²⁹³⁰,Capitanio F²,Castellano S⁹,Cavazzuti E¹,Ciprini S⁶¹⁷,Costa E²,Del Monte E²,Di Lalla N¹³,Di Marco A²^ORCID,Donnarumma I¹,Doroshenko V²¹³¹^ORCID,Ehlert S R²⁵^ORCID,Enoto T³²,Evangelista Y²,Fabiani S²,Ferrazzoli R²,Garcia J A³³,Gunji S³⁴,Hayashida K³⁵,Heyl J³⁶,Iwakiri W³⁷^ORCID,Jorstad S G³⁸³⁹^ORCID,Kitaguchi T³²,Kolodziejczak J J²⁵,La Monaca F²^ORCID,Latronico L²⁶,Liodakis I⁴⁰^ORCID,Maldera S²⁶,Manfreda A⁹,Marscher A P³⁸,Mitsuishi I⁴¹,Mizuno T⁴²,Ng C-Y⁴³,O’Dell S L²⁵,Omodei N¹³,Oppedisano C²⁶,Papitto A⁷,Pavlov G G⁴⁴,Peirson A L¹³,Perri M⁶⁷,Pesce-Rollins M⁹,Pilia M²⁴,Possenti A²⁴,Poutanen J¹⁹²¹^ORCID,Ramsey B D²⁵,Rankin J²,Ratheesh A²,Romani R W¹³,Sgrš C⁹,Slane P⁴⁵,Soffitta P²,Spandre G⁹,Tamagawa T³²,Tavecchio F⁴⁶,Taverna R⁴⁷,Tawara Y⁴¹,Tennant A F²⁵,Thomas N E²⁵,Trois A²⁴^ORCID,Tsygankov S S¹⁹²¹,Turolla R⁴⁷⁴⁸,Vink J⁴⁹,Weisskopf M C²⁵,Wu K⁴⁸^ORCID,Xie F²⁵⁰,Zane S⁴⁸

Affiliation:

1. ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana , Via del Politecnico snc, I-00133 Roma, Italy

2. INAF Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali , Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Roma, Italy

3. Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Bocní II 1401/1, 14100 Praha 4, Czech Republic

4. Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre , Via della Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Roma, Italy

5. University de Strasbourg, CNRS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg , UMR 7550, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

6. Space Science Data Center, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana , Via del Politecnico snc, I-00133 Roma, Italy

7. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma , Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone (RM), Italy

8. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

9. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

10. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa , Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

11. Physics Department and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis , St. Louis, MO 63130, USA

12. School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, Newcastle University , Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK

13. Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA

14. Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IPAG , F-38000 Grenoble, France

15. Astronomical Institute , Charles University, V Holesovickach 2, CZ-18000 Prague, Czech Republic

16. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ , Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy

17. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ , Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133 Roma, Italy

18. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20742, USA

19. Department of Physics and Astronomy , FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland

20. Nordita, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University , Hannes Alfvéns väg 12, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

21. Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Profsoyuznaya Str. 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia

22. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , 20A Datun Road, Beijing 100101, China

23. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC , Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n, E-18008 Granada, Spain

24. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari , Via della Scienza 5, I-09047 Selargius (CA), Italy

25. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center , Huntsville, AL 35812, USA

26. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino, Italy

27. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Torino , Via Pietro Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino, Italy

28. INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri , Largo Enrico Fermi 5, I-50125 Firenze, Italy

29. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Firenze , Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

30. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare , Sezione di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

31. Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen , Sand 1, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany

32. RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research , 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

33. California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

34. Yamagata University , 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata-shi 990-8560, Japan

35. Osaka University , 1-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

36. University of British Columbia , Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

37. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan

38. Institute for Astrophysical Research, Boston University , 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA

39. Department of Astrophysics, St. Petersburg State University , Universitetsky pr. 28, Petrodvoretz, 198504 St. Petersburg, Russia

40. Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO , 20014 University of Turku, Finland

41. Graduate School of Science, Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Nagoya University , Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan

42. Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University , 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan

43. Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam, C694+RP Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong

44. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA 16802, USA

45. Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian , 60 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

46. INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera , Via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate (LC), Italy

47. Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Padova , Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padova, Italy

48. Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London , Holmbury St Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK

49. Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy & GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands

50. Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physical Science and Technology , Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

Abstract

ABSTRACT We report on the first observation of a radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN) in polarized X-rays: the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy MCG-05-23-16. This source was pointed at with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) starting on 2022 May 14 for a net observing time of 486 ks, simultaneously with XMM-Newton (58 ks) and NuSTAR (83 ks). A polarization degree Π smaller than 4.7 per cent (at the 99 per cent confidence level) is derived in the 2–8 keV energy range, where emission is dominated by the primary component ascribed to the hot corona. The broad-band spectrum, inferred from a simultaneous fit to the IXPE, NuSTAR, and XMM-Newton data, is well reproduced by a power law with photon index Γ = 1.85 ± 0.01 and a high-energy cutoff EC = 120 ± 15 keV. A comparison with Monte Carlo simulations shows that a lamp-post and a conical geometry of the corona are consistent with the observed upper limit, a slab geometry is allowed only if the inclination angle of the system is less than 50°.

Funder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Marshall Space Flight Center

Italian Space Agency

Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

Goddard Space Flight Center

CNRS

GACR

Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación

CSIC

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)