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Suzaku confirms NGC 3660 is an unabsorbed Seyfert 2.

Authors :
RIVERS, Elizabeth
BRIGHTMAN, Murray
BIANCHI, Stefano
MATT, Giorgio
NANDRA, Kirpal
Yoshihiro UEDA
Source :
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. Jun2016, Vol. 68 Issue supp1, pS24-1-S24-6. 6p.
Publication Year :
2016

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]

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