X-ray spectral model from clumpy torus and its application to Circinus galaxy
Abstract
We construct an X-ray spectral model for the clumpy torus in an active galactic nucleus (AGN), utilizing the Monte Carlo simulation for Astrophysics and Cosmology framework (MONACO: Odaka et al. 2016). The geometry of the torus is the same as that in Nenkova et al. (2008), which assumes a power law distribution of clumps in the radial direction and a normal distribution in the elevation direction. We apply our model to the broadband X-ray spectrum of the Circinus galaxy observed with XMM-Newton, Suzaku, and NuSTAR. Our model can well reproduce the observed X-ray spectrum, yielding a hydrogen column density along the line-of-sight ${N_{{H}}^{{LOS}}} = 4.86_{ - 0.04}^{ + 0.07} × {10^{24}}$ cm-2 and a torus angular width ${sigma = 14.7_{ - 0.39}^{ + 0.44}}$ degree.
- Publication:
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Panchromatic Modelling with Next Generation Facilities
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921319002382
- Bibcode:
- 2020IAUS..341..314T
- Keywords:
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- galaxies: active nuclei;
- galaxies: X-ray