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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 479, Issue 3, Pages 3592-3603Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1697
Keywords
galaxies: active; galaxies: individual: MCG-03-58-007; X-rays: galaxies
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- ESA Member States
- USA (NASA)
- NASA
- Italian Space Agency [ASI INAF NuSTAR I/037/12/0]
- Chandra grant [GO7-18091X]
- European Space Agency (ESA) Research Fellowship
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [664931]
- [NNX17AC40G]
- [NNX17AC38G]
- [NNX17AD56G]
- [HST-GO-14477.001-A]
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We present the discovery of a new candidate for a fast disc wind, in the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy MCG-03-58-007. This wind is discovered in a deep Suzaku observation that was performed in 2010. Overall the X-ray spectrum of MCG-03-58-007 is highly absorbed by a neutral column density of N-H similar to 10(23) cm(-2), in agreement with the optical classification as a type 2 active galactic nucleus. In addition, this observation unveiled the presence of two deep absorption troughs at E = 7.4 +/- 0.1 and 8.5 +/- 0.2 keV. If associated with blueshifted Fe XXVI, these features can be explained with the presence of two highly ionized (log xi/erg cm s(-1) similar to 5.5) and high column density (N-H similar to 5-8 x 10(23) cm(-2)) outflowing absorbers with v(out1) similar to -0.1c and v(out2) similar to -0.2c. The disc wind detected during this observation is most likely launched from within a few hundreds gravitational radii from the central black and has a kinetic output that matches the prescription for significant feedback. The presence of the lower velocity component of the disc wind is independently confirmed by the analysis of a follow-up XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observation. A faster (v(out) similar to-0.35c) component of the wind is also seen in this second observation. During this observation we also witnessed an occultation event lasting Delta t similar to 120 ks, which we ascribe to an increase of the opacity of the disc wind (Delta N-H similar to 1.4 x 10(24) cm(-2)). Our interpretation is that the slow zone (v(out) similar to -0.1c) of the wind is the most stable but inhomogeneous component, while the faster zones could be associated with two different inner streamlines of the wind.
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