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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 449, Issue 1, Pages 234-242Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv304
Keywords
black hole physics; galaxies: active; galaxies: individual: 1H0707-495; X-rays: galaxies
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- Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- European Union [312789]
- Italian Space Agency [ASI/INAF I/037/12/0-011/13]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) [NNG08FD60C]
- NASA
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [1233534, ST/K000985/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/K000985/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The narrow-line Seyfert I galaxy, 1H0707-495, has been well observed in the 0.3-10 keV band, revealing a dramatic drop in flux in the iron K alpha band, a strong soft excess, and short time-scale reverberation lags associated with these spectral features. In this paper, we present the first results of a deep 250-ks NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) observation of 1H0707-495, which includes the first sensitive observations above 10 keV. Even though the NuSTAR observations caught the source in an extreme low-flux state, the Compton hump is still significantly detected. NuSTAR, with its high effective area above 7 keV, clearly detects the drop in flux in the iron Ka band, and by comparing these observations with archival XMM-Newton observations, we find that the energy of this drop increases with increasing flux. We discuss possible explanations for this, the most likely of which is that the drop in flux is the blue wing of the relativistically broadened iron K alpha emission line. When the flux is low, the coronal source height is low, thus enhancing the most gravitationally redshifted emission.
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