Astrophysical Journal
Astrophysical Journal
5 years ago

The Variable Fast Soft X-Ray Wind in PG 1211+143

The analysis of a series of seven observations of the nearby ( z = 0.0809) QSO PG 1211+143, taken with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) onboard XMM-Newton in 2014, are presented. The high-resolution soft X-ray spectrum, with a total exposure exceeding 600 ks, shows a series of blueshifted absorption lines from the He and H-like transitions of N, O, and Ne, as well as from L-shell Fe. The strongest absorption lines are all systematically blueshifted by −0.06 c , originating in two absorption zones from low- and high-ionization gas. Both zones are variable on timescales of days, with the variations in absorber opacity effectively explained by either column density changes or the absorber ionization responding directly to the continuum flux. We find that the soft X-ray absorbers probably exist in a two-phase wind at a radial distance of ∼10 17 –10 18 cm from the black hole with the lower-ionization gas as denser clumps embedded within a...

Publisher URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/854/1/28

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaa776

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