The hard X-ray spectrum of NGC 5506 as seen by NuSTAR
Abstract
NuSTAR observed the bright Compton-thin, narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 5506, for about 56 ks. In agreement with past observations, the spectrum is well fitted by a power law with Γ ∼ 1.9, a distant reflection component and narrow ionized iron lines. A relativistically blurred reflection component is not required by the data. When an exponential high-energy cutoff is added to the power law, a value of 720^{+130}_{-190} keV (90 per cent confidence level) is found. Even allowing for systematic uncertainties, we find a 3σ lower limit to the high-energy cutoff of 350 keV, the highest lower limit to the cutoff energy found so far in an AGN by NuSTAR.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stu2653
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1412.4541
- Bibcode:
- 2015MNRAS.447.3029M
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion discs;
- galaxies: active;
- galaxies: individual: NGC 5506;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 6 pages. MNRAS, in press