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| author | Gudiño, Miriam Jiménez-Bailón, Elena Longinotti, Anna Lia Guainazzi, Matteo Cerviño, Miguel Robleto-Orús, Aitor |
| author_facet | Gudiño, Miriam Jiménez-Bailón, Elena Longinotti, Anna Lia Guainazzi, Matteo Cerviño, Miguel Robleto-Orús, Aitor |
| contents | In accordance with the AGN Unified Model, observed polarization can be related to the orientation of the line of sight with respect to the torus. AGN X-ray emission arises from the central region and carries the imprints of the obscuring material. We aim to test a unified scheme based on optical polarization using X-ray absorption. Using the XMM-Newton data of 19, optically polarized Seyfert 1 sources, we developed a systematic analysis by fitting a baseline model to test the presence of X-ray neutral or ionized (warm) absorption. We find that 100\% of the polar-polarized sources show the presence of absorption, with 70\% favoring the presence of a warm absorber. In contrast, the equatorial-polarized sources show a fraction of absorbed spectra of 75\%, with only 50\% consistent with the presence of a warm absorber. |
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| spellingShingle | X-ray analysis of Seyfert 1 galaxies with optical polarization: a test for unification models Gudiño, Miriam Jiménez-Bailón, Elena Longinotti, Anna Lia Guainazzi, Matteo Cerviño, Miguel Robleto-Orús, Aitor High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena In accordance with the AGN Unified Model, observed polarization can be related to the orientation of the line of sight with respect to the torus. AGN X-ray emission arises from the central region and carries the imprints of the obscuring material. We aim to test a unified scheme based on optical polarization using X-ray absorption. Using the XMM-Newton data of 19, optically polarized Seyfert 1 sources, we developed a systematic analysis by fitting a baseline model to test the presence of X-ray neutral or ionized (warm) absorption. We find that 100\% of the polar-polarized sources show the presence of absorption, with 70\% favoring the presence of a warm absorber. In contrast, the equatorial-polarized sources show a fraction of absorbed spectra of 75\%, with only 50\% consistent with the presence of a warm absorber. |
| title | X-ray analysis of Seyfert 1 galaxies with optical polarization: a test for unification models |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13194 |