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Is there an Obscured AGN in the Normal Galaxy IRASF01063-8034The target galactic nucleus is ostensibly "normal," but the presence of water maser emission indicates that it may be an obscured AGN. Our primary goal has been to test this hypothesis through the detection hard X-ray emission and an X-ray spectrum characteristic of heavy absorption. The data for this program became available in May 2003. Light curves show that most of the data are good and that the background was well behaved. We have constructed images and found the X-ray emission in this target is a hard and may be extended. The presence of an AGN has been confirmed through observation with XMM. This is one of many edge-on normal galaxies that may contain AGN. The orientation of the extension will be compared to the structure of molecular gas observed at high angular resolution with VLBI. These radio observations were completed in August 2003. Correlation was completed in late 2003. The data have yet to be delivered by the ATNF. Since the start of the program, we have also obtained six radio spectra, on top of the two obtained at or close to the epoch of discovery for the maser. Early indications were that the maser emission exhibited unusually broad velocity extent and that it "jumped in velocity on time scales of weeks. This behavior has been speculated to be the signature of emission excited by jet-ISM interactions. After more extensive and more sensitive radio study, we find that (1) the emission does not in fact change velocity centroid substantially and (2) it comprises narrower, more "normal" emission features. The joint interpretation of radio and XMM data will be possible once the VLBI images and position-resolved X-ray spectra have been made, probably in summer 2004. If the radio emission arises in an accretion disk, rather than a jet, then we may predict that the VLBI images will exhibit velocity-position gradients orthogonal to the extension of X-ray emission, which presumably traces an optical narrow line or outflow region.
Document ID
20040045249
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Greenhill, Lincoln J.
(Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 2004
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-13355
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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