Uncovering the geometry of the hot X-ray corona in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 with IXPE-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Uncovering the geometry of the hot X-ray corona in the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151 with IXPE

Published:2023-06-07 Issue:3 Volume:523 Page:4468-4476
ISSN:0035-8711
Container-title:Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Gianolli V E¹²^ORCID,Kim D E³⁴⁵^ORCID,Bianchi S²^ORCID,Agís-González B⁶,Madejski G⁷,Marin F⁸^ORCID,Marinucci A⁹^ORCID,Matt G²,Middei R³¹⁰^ORCID,Petrucci P-O¹,Soffitta P³^ORCID,Tagliacozzo D²^ORCID,Tombesi F⁵¹¹¹²^ORCID,Ursini F²^ORCID,Barnouin T⁸^ORCID,De Rosa A³^ORCID,Di Gesu L⁹^ORCID,Ingram A¹³^ORCID,Loktev V¹⁴^ORCID,Panagiotou C¹⁵,Podgorny J⁸¹⁶¹⁷^ORCID,Poutanen J¹⁴^ORCID,Puccetti S¹⁰^ORCID,Ratheesh A³^ORCID,Veledina A¹⁴¹⁸^ORCID,Zhang W¹⁹^ORCID,Agudo I⁶^ORCID,Antonelli L A¹⁰²⁰^ORCID,Bachetti M²¹^ORCID,Baldini L²²²³^ORCID,Baumgartner W H²⁴^ORCID,Bellazzini R²²^ORCID,Bongiorno S D²⁴^ORCID,Bonino R²⁵²⁶^ORCID,Brez A²²^ORCID,Bucciantini N²⁷²⁸²⁹^ORCID,Capitanio F³^ORCID,Castellano S²²^ORCID,Cavazzuti E⁹^ORCID,Chen C-T³⁰^ORCID,Ciprini S¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Costa E³^ORCID,Del Monte E³^ORCID,Di Lalla N⁷^ORCID,Di Marco A³^ORCID,Donnarumma I⁹^ORCID,Doroshenko V³¹^ORCID,Dovčiak M¹⁶^ORCID,Ehlert S R²⁴^ORCID,Enoto T³²^ORCID,Evangelista Y³^ORCID,Fabiani S³^ORCID,Ferrazzoli R³^ORCID,García J A³³^ORCID,Gunji S³⁴^ORCID,Heyl J³⁵^ORCID,Iwakiri W³⁶^ORCID,Jorstad S G³⁷³⁸^ORCID,Kaaret P²⁴^ORCID,Karas V¹⁶^ORCID,Kislat F³⁹^ORCID,Kitaguchi T³²,Kolodziejczak J J²⁴^ORCID,Krawczynski H⁴⁰^ORCID,La Monaca F³^ORCID,Latronico L²⁵^ORCID,Liodakis I⁴¹^ORCID,Maldera S²⁵^ORCID,Manfreda A²²^ORCID,Marscher A P³⁷^ORCID,Marshall H L¹⁵^ORCID,Massaro F²⁵²⁶^ORCID,Mitsuishi I⁴²,Mizuno T⁴³^ORCID,Muleri F³^ORCID,Negro M⁴⁴⁴⁵⁴⁶^ORCID,Ng C-Y⁴⁷^ORCID,O’Dell S L²⁴^ORCID,Omodei N⁷^ORCID,Oppedisano C²⁵^ORCID,Papitto A²⁰^ORCID,Pavlov G G⁴⁸^ORCID,Peirson A L⁷^ORCID,Perri M¹⁰²⁰^ORCID,Pesce-Rollins M²²^ORCID,Pilia M²¹^ORCID,Possenti A²¹^ORCID,Ramsey B D²⁴^ORCID,Rankin J³^ORCID,Roberts O J³⁰^ORCID,Romani R W⁷^ORCID,Sgrò C²²^ORCID,Slane P⁴⁹^ORCID,Spandre G²²^ORCID,Swartz D A³⁰^ORCID,Tamagawa T³²^ORCID,Tavecchio F⁵⁰^ORCID,Taverna R⁵¹^ORCID,Tawara Y⁴²,Tennant A F²⁴^ORCID,Thomas N E²⁴^ORCID,Trois A²¹^ORCID,Tsygankov S S¹⁴^ORCID,Turolla R⁵¹⁵²^ORCID,Vink J⁵³^ORCID,Weisskopf M C²⁴^ORCID,Wu K⁵²^ORCID,Xie F³⁵⁴^ORCID,Zane S⁵²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Université Grenoble Alpes , CNRS, IPAG, 38000 Grenoble, France

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

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

4. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ , Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy

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

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

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

8. Université de Strasbourg , CNRS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, UMR 7550, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Boční II 1401/1, CZ-14100 Praha 4, Czech Republic

17. Astronomical Institute, Charles University , V Holešovičkách 2, CZ-18000 Prague, Czech Republic

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

30. Science and Technology Institute, Universities Space Research Association , Huntsville, AL 35805, USA

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 Kojirakawamachi, Yamagatashi 990-8560, Japan

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

36. International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University , Chiba 263-8522, Japan

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

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

39. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Space Science Center, University of New Hampshire , Durham, NH 03824, USA

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

41. Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO , University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland

42. Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University , Furocho, Chikusaku, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan

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

44. University of Maryland , Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA

45. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

46. Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, NASA/GSFC , Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA

47. Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong , Pokfulam, Hong Kong

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract

ABSTRACTWe present an X-ray spectropolarimetric analysis of the bright Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151. The source has been observed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) for 700 ks, complemented with simultaneous XMM–Newton (50 ks) and NuSTAR (100 ks) pointings. A polarization degree Π = 4.9 ± 1.1 per cent and angle Ψ = 86° ± 7° east of north (68 per cent confidence level) are measured in the 2–8 keV energy range. The spectropolarimetric analysis shows that the polarization could be entirely due to reflection. Given the low reflection flux in the IXPE band, this requires, however, a reflection with a very large (>38 per cent) polarization degree. Assuming more reasonable values, a polarization degree of the hot corona ranging from ∼4 to ∼8 per cent is found. The observed polarization degree excludes a ‘spherical’ lamppost geometry for the corona, suggesting instead a slab-like geometry, possibly a wedge, as determined via Monte Carlo simulations. This is further confirmed by the X-ray polarization angle, which coincides with the direction of the extended radio emission in this source, supposed to match the disc axis. NGC 4151 is the first active galactic nucleus with an X-ray polarization measure for the corona, illustrating the capabilities of X-ray polarimetry and IXPE in unveiling its geometry.

Funder

NASA

Italian Space Agency

INAF

CNRS

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

Link

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1697/50536690/stad1697.pdf

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