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Longinotti, Anna Lia; Kriss, Gerard; Krongold, Yair; Arellano-Cordova, K. Z.; Komossa, S.; Gallo, Luigi; Grupe, Dirk; Mathur, Smita; Parker, Michael L.; Pradhan, Anil; Wilkins, Dan
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 875, Issue 2, article id. 150, 15 pp. (2019).
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The Seyfert galaxy Mrk 335 is known for its frequent changes of flux and
spectral shape in the X-ray band that occurred during recent years.
These variations may be explained by the onset of a wind that previous,
noncontemporaneous high-resolution spectroscopy in X-ray and UV bands
located at accretion disk scale. A simultaneous new campaign by
XMM-Newton and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) caught the source at a
historically low flux in the X-ray band. The soft X-ray spectrum is
dominated by prominent emission features and by the effect of a strong
ionized absorber with an outflow velocity of (5–6) ×
103 km s‑1. The broadband spectrum obtained
by the EPIC-pn camera reveals the presence of an additional layer of
absorption by gas at moderate ionization covering ∼80% of the
central source, as well as tantalizing evidence for absorption in the Fe
K band outflowing at the same velocity of the soft X-ray absorber. The
HST Cosmic Origins Spectrograph spectra confirm the simultaneous
presence of broad absorption troughs in C IV, Lyα, Lyβ, and O
VI, with velocities of the order of 5000 km s‑1 and
covering factors in the range of 20%–30%. Comparison of the ionic
column densities and of other outflow parameters in the two bands shows
that the X-ray and UV absorbers are likely originated by the same gas.
The resulting picture from this latest multiwavelength campaign confirms
that Mrk 335 undergoes the effect of a patchy, medium-velocity
outflowing gas in a wide range of ionization states that seem to be
persistently obscuring the nuclear continuum.