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2019MNRAS.482L.134N - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 482, L134-L138 (2019/January-1)

Towards an informed quest for accretion disc winds in quasars: the intriguing case of Ton 28.

NARDINI E., LUSSO E. and BISOGNI S.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report on the detection of a blueshifted Fe K absorption feature in two consecutive XMM-Newton observations of the luminous blue quasar Ton 28, at the 4σ cumulative significance. The rest energy of 9.2 keV implies the presence of an accretion disc wind with bulk outflow velocity of ∼0.28c, while the kinetic power is most likely a few per cent of the quasar luminosity. Remarkably, Ton 28 had been specifically selected as an optimal target to reveal an ultra-fast X-ray wind based on its total luminosity (Lbol > 1046 erg s–1) and [O III] λ5007 Å equivalent width (EW < 6 Å), suggestive of high accretion rate and low inclination, respectively. Other peculiar optical/UV emission-line properties include narrow Hβ, strong Fe II, and blueshifted C IV . These are key parameters in the Eigenvector 1 formalism, and are frequently found in active galaxies with ongoing accretion disc winds, hinting at a common physical explanation. Provided that the effectiveness of our selection method is confirmed with similar sources, this result could represent the first step towards the characterization of black hole winds through multiwavelength indicators in the absence of high-quality X-ray spectra.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - quasars: individual: Ton 28 - X-rays: galaxies

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