2020A&A...633A..62G

Aims. We aim to investigate and characterise the photoionised X-ray emission line regions within the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469.
Methods. We applied the photoionisation model, PION, within the spectral fitting code SPEX to analyse the 640 ks reflection grating spectrometer spectrum of NGC 7469 gathered during an XMM-Newton observing campaign in 2015.
Results. We find the emission line region in NGC 7469 to be multiphased, consisting of two narrow components with ionisation parameters of log ξ=0.4 and 1.6. A third, broad emission component, with a broadening velocity of v_b∼1400km/s and an outflow velocity of v_out~-4500km/s is required to fit the residuals in the OVII triplet at around 22Å. Assuming a volume filling factor of 0.1, the lower distance limits of the narrow emission line region components are estimated for the first time at 2.6 and 2.5pc from the central black hole, whereas the broad component has an estimated lower bound distance between 0.004 and 0.03pc, depending on the assumed plasma parameters. The collisionally ionised plasma from the star burst region in NGC 7469 has a plasma temperature of 0.32keV and an outflow velocity of -280km/s, which is consistent with previous results in this campaign. In addition, we model the photoionised plasma of the warm absorber (WA) in NGC 7469 and find that it consists of three photoionised phases with different values of ξ, N_H and v_out. The upper bound distances of these WA components are 1.9, 0.3, and 0.6pc, respectively, consistent with archival results. Conclusion. The environment of NGC 7469 is a complex mix of plasma winds absorbing and emitting X-rays. We find the picture painted by our results can be attributed to line emitting plasma located at distances ranging from near the black hole to the torus and beyond the ionised outflows.