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2018ApJ...858..106Y - Astrophys. J., 858, 106-106 (2018/May-2)

Broadband X-ray spectral analysis of the double-nucleus luminous infrared galaxy Mrk 463.

YAMADA S., UEDA Y., ODA S., TANIMOTO A., IMANISHI M., TERASHIMA Y. and RICCI C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a broadband (0.4-70 keV) X-ray spectral analysis of the luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) system Mrk 463 observed with Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Chandra, and XMM-Newton, which contains double active galactic nuclei (AGNs; Mrk 463E and Mrk 463W) with a separation of ∼3.8 kpc. Detecting their transmitted hard X-ray >10 keV continua with NuSTAR, we confirm that Mrk 463E and Mrk 463W have AGNs with intrinsic luminosities of (1.6-2.2) x 1043 and (0.5-0.6) x 1043 erg s–1 (2-10 keV) obscured by hydrogen column densities of 8 x 1023 and 3 x 1023 cm–2, respectively. Both nuclei show strong reflection components from cold matter. The luminosity ratio between X-ray (2-10 keV) and [O IV] 25.89 µm of Mrk 463E is ∼5 times smaller than those of normal Seyfert galaxies, suggesting that the intrinsic SED is X-ray weak relative to the UV luminosity. In fact, the bolometric AGN luminosity of Mrk 463E estimated from L'-band (3.8 µm), [O IV] 25.89 µm, and [Ne V] 14.32 µm lines indicate a large bolometric-to-X-ray luminosity ratio, κ_2-10 keV_ ≃ 110-410, and a high Eddington ratio, λEdd ∼ 0.4-0.8. We suggest that the merger triggered a rapid growth of the black hole in Mrk 463E, which is not yet deeply "buried" by circumnuclear dust. By contrast, the L'-band luminosity of Mrk 463W is unusually small relative to the X-ray luminosity, suggesting that the Eddington ratio is low (<10–3) and it might be still in an early phase of merger-driven AGN activity.

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Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - galaxies: active - galaxies: individual: Mrk 463 - infrared: galaxies - X-rays: galaxies

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