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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 445, Issue 1, Pages 1039-1047Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu1818
Keywords
galaxies: active; galaxies: individual: Mrk 1048; galaxies: Seyfert
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- ESA
- NASA
- NASA [NAS5-00136]
- STFC [ST/K000985/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [1233534, ST/K000985/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We present two new XMM-Newton observations of an unprecedented low-flux state in the Seyfert 1 Mrk 1048 (NGC 985), taken in 2013. The X-ray flux below 1 keV drops by a factor of 4-5, whereas the spectrum above 5 keV is essentially unchanged. This points towards an absorption origin for the low state, and we confirm this with spectral fitting, finding that the spectral differences can be well modelled by the addition of a partial covering neutral absorber, with a column density of similar to 3 x 10(22) cm(-2) and a covering fraction of similar to 0.6. The optical and UV fluxes are not affected, and indeed are marginally brighter in the more recent observations, suggesting that only the inner regions of the disc are affected by the absorption event. This indicates either that the absorption is due to a cloud passing over the inner disc, obscuring the X-ray source but leaving the outer disc untouched, or that the absorber is dust-free so the UV continuum is unaffected. We use arguments based on the duration of the event and the physical properties of the absorber to constrain its size and location, and conclude that it is most likely a small cloud at similar to 10(18) cm from the source.
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