High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of AGN: Recent Results and Future Advances
Abstract
I will summarize findings from the past ten years of high resolution X-ray spectroscopy of AGN using Chandra and XMM-Newton, concentrating on the energy range from 0.1 to 1.0 keV. The main scientific findings concentrate in three broad categories: 1) measuring photoexcited gas at mild outflow or transverse speeds via absorption, 2) tracking photoexcited gas in emission outside the nucleus, and 3) probing the inner accretion disk via relativistically broadened emission lines. I will show how these studies may be advanced with new observations at high resolution and improved effective area.
This work has been funded in part by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) contract SV3-73016 to MIT for support of the Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC), which is operated by SAO for and on behalf of NASA under contract NAS8-03060.- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #218
- Pub Date:
- May 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011AAS...21822101M