J/MNRAS/413/1206 XMM survey of 12um selected galaxies (Brightman+, 2011)
An XMM-Newton spectral survey of 12µm selected galaxies.
I. X-ray data.
Brightman M., Nandra K.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 413, 1206-1235 (2011)>
=2011MNRAS.413.1206B 2011MNRAS.413.1206B
ADC_Keywords: X-ray sources ; Galaxies, IR ; Spectroscopy
Keywords: line: formation - radiative transfer - galaxies: active -
X-rays: galaxies
Abstract:
We present an X-ray spectral analysis of 126 galaxies of the 12um
galaxy sample (Rush et al. 1993, Cat. VII/157). By studying this
sample at X-ray wavelengths, we aim to determine the intrinsic power,
continuum shape and obscuration level in these sources. We improve
upon previous works by the use of superior data in the form of higher
signal-to-noise ratio spectra, finer spectral resolution and a broader
bandpass from XMM-Newton. We pay particular attention to Compton thick
active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the help of new spectral fitting
models that we have produced, which are based on Monte Carlo
simulations of X-ray radiative transfer, using both a spherical and
torus geometry, and taking into account Compton scattering and iron
fluorescence.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 112 126 Observational data for the 126 XMM-Newton
observations used here
table3.dat 168 126 *Parameters of the basic model consisting of the
primary power law and the thermal plasma
component, where present
table4.dat 90 44 Parameters of the second power-law component,
if it is present
table5.dat 123 15 Parameters of the soft excess component,
if it is present
table6.dat 81 44 Parameters of the reflection component,
if it is present
table7.dat 56 39 X-ray spectral fitting data. Parameters of the
warm absorber, if it is present
table8.dat 91 71 Parameters of the Fe-Kα line, be it narrow
or broad, if it is present
table9.dat 72 16 Details of the Compton thick sources found in
this sample
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Note on table3.dat: More complex model parameters are presented in tables 4-8.
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See also:
VII/157 : The Extended 12um galaxy sample (Rush+ 1993)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name as given by NED
25- 39 A15 --- ONames Galaxy name(s) as given by RMS
41- 47 F7.3 deg RAdeg RMS right ascension in decimal degrees (J2000)
49- 55 F7.3 deg DEdeg RMS declination in decimal degrees (J2000)
57- 63 F7.4 --- z Redshift as reported in NED
64 A1 --- n_z [a] negative z (1)
66- 74 I9 --- ObsID XMM-Newton observation identifier
76- 79 I4 --- Rev XMM-Newton revolution number
81- 90 A10 "YYYY-MM-DD" Date Date of XMM-Newton observation
92- 96 F5.1 ks Dur Duration of the XMM-Newton observation before
background screening
98-101 F4.1 ks Texp Exposure time after screening and
dead-time correction
103-105 A3 --- Mode XMM-Newton readout mode (2)
107-112 A6 --- Filt Optical filter in place during XMM-Newton
observation
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Note (1): a: Messier 81, NGC 4214 and Messier 90 have reported negative
redshifts, indicating that they have peculiar velocities in our direction.
We use the luminosity distance reported in NED when calculating the
luminosities for these objects (0.662, 7.54 and 1.22Mpc, respectively).
Note (2): XMM-Newton readout mode code as follows:
FW = full window
FWe = full window extended
LW = large window
SW = small window
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
24- 30 F7.2 --- chi2 chi2 value of the fit
31 A1 --- --- [/]
32- 34 I3 --- dof Degree of freedom value of the fit
35- 37 A3 --- n_dof Note on dof (1)
39- 42 F4.1 10+20cm-2 NHg Galactic column density
44 A1 --- l_NH Limit flag on NH
45- 52 F8.4 10+22cm-2 NH ? Neutral column density measured in
the primary power law
54- 62 F9.4 10+22cm-2 E_NH ? Error on NH (upper value)
64- 71 F8.4 10+22cm-2 e_NH ? Error on NH (lower value)
72 A1 --- n_NH [*] * indicates that an ionized absorber
has been detected in this spectral fit,
details of which are in Table 7
74- 77 F4.2 --- Gam1 Power-law index of the primary power law
Γ1
78 A1 --- n_Gam1 [f] f indicates that this parameter
was fixed in the fit
79- 82 F4.2 --- E_Gam1 ? Error on Gamma1 (upper value)
84- 87 F4.2 --- e_Gam1 ? Error on Gam1 (lower value)
88- 96 F9.3 10-5/cm2/s/keV Apl ? Normalization of the primary power
law (x10-5ph/cm2/s/keV at 1keV)
98-106 F9.3 10-5/cm2/s/keV E_Apl ? Error on Apl (upper value)
108-115 F8.3 10-5/cm2/s/keV e_Apl ? Error on Apl (lower value)
117-122 F6.3 keV kT ? Temperature of the thermal plasma
component
124-128 F5.3 keV E_kT ? Error on kT (upper value)
130-134 F5.3 keV e_kT ? Error on kT (lower value)
136-144 F9.5 --- R ? Ratio of the normalization of the
thermal plasma component to the
normalization of the primary power law
145-151 F7.4 --- E_R ? Error on R (upper value)
153-158 F6.4 --- e_R ? Error on R (upper value)
160-163 I4 10-17W/m2 FHX Observed flux in the 2-10keV band
164 A1 --- --- [/]
165-168 F4.1 [10-7W] logLHX logarithm of the intrinsic luminosity
in 2-10keV (hard) band
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Note (1): Notes as follows:
(F) = full band spectral fit method was used
(D) = although the χ2r of this fit is bad (χ2r>2), the
data/model ratio never exceeded 5 per cent, which is the level of
uncertainties in the XMM-Newton calibration
(H) = only the 2.5-10keV fit parameters have been presented here due to
spectral complexities below 2keV. For the 2.5-10keV fits, only
NGC 1068, NGC 1365 and M82 have bad fits. These sources have
notoriously complex spectra, which are high signal-to-noise ratio in
this case, with several emission and absorption features. We do not
attempt to fit these additional complexities, however, and present
only the basic hard band parameters for these fits. No errors are
quoted because the standard formalism does not apply unless the model
fits the data (Lampton et al. 1976ApJ...208..177L 1976ApJ...208..177L).
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 32 F8.5 10+22cm02 NH.2 ? Neutral column density measured in the
secondary power law
34- 40 F7.5 10+22cm02 E_NH.2 ? Error on NH.2 (upper limit)
41- 47 F7.5 10+22cm02 e_NH.2 ? Error on NH.2 (lower limit)
48- 52 F5.2 --- Gam2 ? Power-law index of the secondary power law
Γ2
54- 57 F4.2 --- E_Gam2 ? Error on Gam2 (upper limit)
59- 62 F4.2 --- e_Gam2 ? Error on Gam2 (lower limit)
63 A1 --- n_Gam2 [G] G when Gam2=Gam1
65- 71 F7.5 --- Fpl Ratio of the normalization of the second
power law to the primary power law
73- 82 F10.5 --- E_Fpl ? Error on Fpl (upper value)
84- 90 F7.5 --- e_Fpl ? Error on Fpl (lower value)
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 28 F4.2 --- R Ratio of the data at 0.4keV to the extrapolated
2.5-10keV power law
29 A1 --- n_R [a] Note on R (1)
32- 37 A6 --- Model Model used (bbody or compTT)
40- 46 F7.5 keV T0 ? The input soft photon (Wien) temperature
(compTT model only)
48- 53 F6.4 keV E_T0 ? Error on T0 (upper value)
55- 61 F7.5 keV e_T0 ? Error on T0 (lower value)
63- 67 F5.2 keV kT Temperature
68- 72 F5.2 keV E_kT ? Error on kT (upper value)
73- 77 F5.2 keV e_kT ? Error on kT (lower value)
79- 84 F6.4 --- taup ? Plasma optical depth (compTT model only)
86- 90 F5.3 --- E_taup ? Error on taup (upper value)
92- 95 F4.2 --- e_taup ? Error on taup (lower value)
97-104 F8.4 --- FSX Ratio of the normalization of this component to
the normalization of the primary power law
106-113 F8.4 --- E_FSX ? Error on FSX (upper value)
116-123 F8.4 --- e_FSX ? Error on FSX (lower value)
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Note (1): a: 3C 120 has a soft excess which does not fit our criteria, as it
does not have a data/model ratio greater than 20 per cent at 0.4keV. However,
this source has a clear soft excess at 0.7keV not well modelled by thermal
plasma emission. We find that a ratio of 3.2 at 0.4keV is recovered when an
additional intrinsic absorption component is used.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table6.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 28 F4.2 --- Gam2 ? Power-law index of the reflection component
30- 33 F4.2 --- E_Gam2 ? Error on Gam2 (upper value)
35- 38 F4.2 --- e_Gam2 ? Error on Gam2 (lower value)
39 A1 --- n_Gam2 [G] G when Gam2=Gam1
40 A1 --- f_Gam2 [f] f when parameter has been fixed at
this value
42- 48 F7.3 --- Rpex Ratio of the normalization of the PEXMON
component to the normalization of the
primary power law
50- 56 F7.3 --- E_Rpex ? Error on Rpex (upper value)
58- 64 F7.3 --- e_Rpex ? Error on Rpex (lower value)
66- 71 F6.1 --- Rtor ? Ratio of the normalization of the TORUS
component to the normalization of the
primary power law (only when Rpex>1)
73- 76 F4.1 [10-7W] logLHXpex ? Intrinsic 2-10keV luminosity as determined
from the PEXMON component
78- 81 F4.1 [10-7W] logLHXtor ? Intrinsic 2-10keV luminosity as determined
from the TORUS component
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table7.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 28 F4.1 [cm-2] logNH logarithm of the ionized column density
30- 32 F3.1 [cm-2] E_logNH ? Error on logNH (upper value)
34- 36 F3.1 [cm-2] e_logNH ? Error on logNH (lower value)
38- 43 F6.3 [-] logxi logarithm of the ionization parameter, ξ
46- 50 F5.3 [-] E_logxi ? Error on logxi (upper value)
52- 56 F5.3 [-] e_logxi ? Error on logxi (lower value)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table8.dat
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 31 F7.2 eV EW6.4 ? Equivalent width of the narrow line at
6.4keV modelled by either TRANS or PEXMON
33- 39 F7.2 eV E_EW6.4 ? Error on EW6.4 (upper value)
41- 47 F7.2 eV e_EW6.4 ? Error on EW6.4 (lower value)
50- 53 F4.2 keV EFeKa ? Energy of the line constrained to be between
6.2 and 6.6keV, not associated with any
other component
55- 58 F4.2 keV E_EFeKa ? Error on EFeKa (upper value)
60- 63 F4.2 keV e_EFeKa ? Error on EFeKa (lower value)
65 A1 --- l_sigFeKa Limit flag on sigmaFeKa
66- 69 F4.2 --- sigFeKa ? Gaussian width of this component
71- 74 F4.2 --- E_sigFeKa ? Error on sigFeKa (upper value)
76- 79 F4.2 --- e_sigFeKa ? Error on sigFeKa (lower value)
81- 83 I3 eV EWFeKa ? Equivalent width of FeKα
85- 87 I3 eV E_EWFeKa ? Error on EWFeKa (upper value)
89- 91 I3 eV e_EWFeKa ? Error on EWFeKa (lower value)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table9.dat
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1- 23 A23 --- Name Galaxy name
25- 28 F4.1 cm-2 NH ? Directly measured hydrogen column density
30- 32 F3.1 cm-2 E_NH ? Error on NH (upper value)
34- 36 F3.1 cm-2 e_NH ? Error on NH (lower value)
38- 41 I4 eV EWFeKa ? Equivalent width of the Fe Kα line
43- 46 I4 eV E_EWFeKa ? Error on EWFeKa (upper value)
48- 51 I4 eV e_EWFeKa ? Error on EWFeKa (lower value)
53- 58 F6.2 --- R ? Reflection fraction determined from the
PEXMON model
60- 65 F6.2 --- E_R ? Error on R (upper value)
67- 72 F6.2 --- e_R ? Error on R (lower value)
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