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Soft X-Ray Emission Lines from a Relativistic Accretion Disk in MCG -6-30-15 and Mrk 766XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) spectra of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies MCG -6-30-15 and Mrk 766 are physically and spectroscopically inconsistent with standard models comprising a power-law continuum absorbed by either cold or ionized matter. We propose that the remarkably similar features detected in both objects in the 5 - 35 A band are H-like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon emission lines, gravitation- ally redshifted and broadened by relativistic effects in the vicinity of a Kerr black hole. We discuss the implications of our interpretation, and demonstrate that the derived parameters can be physically self-consistent.
Document ID
20030007910
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Branduardi-Raymont, G.
(Mullard Space Science Lab. Dorking, United Kingdom)
Sako, M.
(Columbia Univ. New York, NY United States)
Kahn, S. M.
(Columbia Univ. New York, NY United States)
Brinkman, A. C.
(Space Research Organization Netherlands Utrecht, Netherlands)
Kaastra, J. S.
(Space Research Organization Netherlands Utrecht, Netherlands)
Page, M. J.
(Mullard Space Science Lab. Dorking, United Kingdom)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
September 29, 2000
Subject Category
Astronomy
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS5-31429
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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