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Suzaku confirms NGC 3660 is an unabsorbed Seyfert 2.
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan . Jun2016, Vol. 68 Issue supp1, pS24-1-S24-6. 6p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- An enigmatic group of objects, unabsorbed Seyfert 2s may have intrinsically weak broad line regions, obscuration in the line of sight to the BLR but not to the X-ray corona, or so much obscuration that the X-ray continuum is completely suppressed and the observed spectrum is actually scattered into the line of sight from nearby material. NGC 3660 has been shown to have weak broad optical/near-infrared lines, no obscuration in the soft X-ray band, and no indication of "changing look" behavior. The only previous hard X-ray detection of this source by Beppo-SAX seemed to indicate that the source might harbor a heavily obscured nucleus. However, our analysis of a long-look Suzaku observation of this source shows that this is not the case, and that this source has a typical power-law X-ray continuum with normal reflection and no obscuration. We conclude that NGC 3660 is confirmed to have no unidentified obscuration and that the anomolously high Beppo- SAX measurement must be due to source confusion or similar, being inconsistent with our Suzaku measurements as well as non-detections from Swift-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *STELLAR corona
*ASTRONOMICAL observations
*GALAXIES
*GALACTIC nuclei
*BLACK holes
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00046264
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- supp1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115681013
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psv137