Chandra Grating Spectroscopy of the Seyfert Galaxy Ton S180.pdf

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 0 1 2 1 2 9 v 1 6 D e c 2 0 0 0 Chandra Grating Spectroscopy of the Seyfert Galaxy Ton S180 T.J.Turner 1,2, I.M. George 1,2, T.Yaqoob 1,3, G. Kriss 3,4, D.M. Crenshaw 5, S. Kraemer 5, W. Zheng3, J. Wang3, K. Nandra1,6 Received ; accepted 1Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Code 660, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 2Joint Center for Astrophysics, Physics Dept., University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 3Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218–2686 4Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 5Catholic University of America; NASA/GSFC, Code 681, Greenbelt, MD 20771 6Universities Space Research Association – 2 – ABSTRACT We present preliminary results from spectral observations of Ton S180 using Chandra and ASCA. The data confirm the presence of the soft excess but the Chandra LETG spectrum reveals it to be broad and smooth, rather than resolved into individual emission lines. This excess may represent either a primary or reprocessed continuum component or a blend of broad lines from an ionized accretion disk. The occurrence of a similar feature in five other NLSy1s leads us to conclude that this soft X-ray component may be a characteristic of sources accreting at a high rate. The X-ray spectrum shows no evidence for absorption lines, indicating that if gas exists in the line-of-sight then it is in a very high ionization-state or has an extreme velocity distribution. The new ASCA data confirm that the narrow component of the Fe Kα line peaks close to a rest-energy of 7 keV, indicating the presence of a significant amount of highly-ionized material in the nuclear environs. – 3 – 1. Introduction Examination of the Seyfert population shows that narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLSy1s) have relatively strong X-ray variability (Turner et al. 1999) and steepe