Measuring the Obscuring Column of a Disk Megamaser AGN in a Nearby Merger

Masini, A. and Comastri, A. and Hickox, R. C. and Koss, M. and Civano, F. and Brightman, M. and Brusa, M. and Lanzuisi, G. (2019) Measuring the Obscuring Column of a Disk Megamaser AGN in a Nearby Merger. Astrophysical Journal, 882 (2). Art. No. 83. ISSN 1538-4357. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab3214. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190812-145519174

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Abstract

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) hosting disk water megamasers are well known to be obscured by large amounts of gas, likely due to the presence along the line of sight of an almost edge-on disky structure orbiting the supermassive black hole. Correcting for the high obscuration is crucial to infer parameters intrinsic to the source, like its luminosity. We present a broadband X-ray spectral analysis of a water megamaser AGN in an early merger (NGC 5765B), combining Chandra and NuSTAR data. NGC 5765B is highly Compton-thick and reflection-dominated, following the general trend among disk megamasers. Combining the exquisite black hole mass from masers with our X-ray spectroscopy, the Eddington ratio of the megamaser is estimated to be in the 2%–14% range, and its robustness is confirmed through SED fitting.

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Article

Related URLs:

URL	URL Type	Description
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3214	DOI	Article
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05426	arXiv	Discussion Paper

ORCID:

Author	ORCID
Masini, A.	0000-0002-7100-9366
Comastri, A.	0000-0003-3451-9970
Hickox, R. C.	0000-0003-1468-9526
Koss, M.	0000-0002-7998-9581
Civano, F.	0000-0002-2115-1137
Brightman, M.	0000-0002-8147-2602
Brusa, M.	0000-0002-5059-6848
Lanzuisi, G.	0000-0001-9094-0984

Additional Information:

© 2019 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2019 May 1; revised 2019 July 8; accepted 2019 July 11; published 2019 September 4. We thank the anonymous referee for useful suggestions that improved the clarity of the paper, and M. Baloković for useful help and suggestions on Borus02 modeling. This work was supported under NASA Contract NNG08FD60C, and made use of data from the NuSTAR mission, a project led by the California Institute of Technology, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the NuSTAR Operations, Software, and Calibration teams for support with the execution and analysis of these observations. This research made use of the NuSTAR Data Analysis Software (NuSTARDAS) jointly developed by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC, Italy) and the California Institute of Technology (USA). This research has also made use of data obtained from the Chandra Data Archive and the Chandra Source Catalog, and software provided by the Chandra X-ray Center (CXC). A.M. and R.C.H. acknowledge support by the NSF through grant No. 1554584, and by NASA through grant No. NNX15AP24G and Chandra GO award GO7-18130X. M.K. acknowledges support from NASA through ADAP award NNH16CT03C. A.C., M.B., and G.L. acknowledge support from the ASI/INAF grant I/037/12/0-011/13. Facilities: Chandra - , NuSTAR. - Software: CIAO (Fruscione et al. 2006), NuSTARDAS, XSPEC (Arnaud 1996).

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NuSTAR, Space Radiation Laboratory

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
NASA	NNG08FD60C
NASA/JPL/Caltech	UNSPECIFIED
NSF	AST-1554584
NASA	NNX15AP24G
NASA	GO7-18130X
NASA	NNH16CT03C
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)	I/037/12/0-011/13

Subject Keywords:

galaxies: active – methods: observational – techniques: spectroscopic – X-rays: general

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10.3847/1538-4357/ab3214

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CaltechAUTHORS:20190812-145519174

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A. Masini et al 2019 ApJ 882 83

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Tony Diaz

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