First X-ray polarimetric view of a Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus: the case of NGC 2110
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| author | Chakraborty, Sudip Ratheesh, Ajay Tagliacozzo, Daniele Kaaret, Philip Podgorný, Jakub Marin, Frédéric Tombesi, Francesco Ehlert, Steven R. Chen, Chien-Ting J. Kim, Dawoon E. Liodakis, Ioannis Ursini, Francesco Middei, Riccardo Di Marco, Alessandro La Monaca, Fabio Banerjee, Srimanta Fukumura, Keigo Maksym, W. Peter Mikušincová, Romana Nemmen, Rodrigo Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier Soffitta, Paolo Svoboda, Jiří |
| author_facet | Chakraborty, Sudip Ratheesh, Ajay Tagliacozzo, Daniele Kaaret, Philip Podgorný, Jakub Marin, Frédéric Tombesi, Francesco Ehlert, Steven R. Chen, Chien-Ting J. Kim, Dawoon E. Liodakis, Ioannis Ursini, Francesco Middei, Riccardo Di Marco, Alessandro La Monaca, Fabio Banerjee, Srimanta Fukumura, Keigo Maksym, W. Peter Mikušincová, Romana Nemmen, Rodrigo Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier Soffitta, Paolo Svoboda, Jiří |
| contents | Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN) provides a unique view of Comptonization and non-thermal emission from accreting black holes in the low-accretion rate regime. However, to decipher the exact nature of the Comptonizing corona in LLAGN, its geometry and emission mechanism must be understood beyond the limits of spectro-timing techniques. Spectro-polarimetry offers the potential to break the degeneracies between different coronal emission models. Compton-thin LLAGN provide an opportunity for such spectro-polarimetric exploration in the 2-8 keV energy range using IXPE. In this work, we carry out a spectro-polarimetric analysis of the first IXPE observation, in synergy with a contemporaneous NuSTAR observation, of an LLAGN: NGC 2110. Using 554.4 ks of IXPE data from October 2024, we constrain the 99% upper limit on the Polarization Degree (PD) to be less than 8.3% assuming the corresponding Polarization Angle (PA) to be aligned with the radio jet, and less than 3.6% if in the perpendicular direction. In the absence of a significant PD detection, the PA remains formally unconstrained, yet the polarization significance contours appear to be aligned with the radio jet, tentatively supporting models in which the corona is radially extended in the plane of the disk. We also carry out detailed Monte Carlo simulations using MONK and STOKES codes to test different coronal models against our results and compare the polarization properties between NGC 2110 and brighter Seyferts. |
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| spellingShingle | First X-ray polarimetric view of a Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus: the case of NGC 2110 Chakraborty, Sudip Ratheesh, Ajay Tagliacozzo, Daniele Kaaret, Philip Podgorný, Jakub Marin, Frédéric Tombesi, Francesco Ehlert, Steven R. Chen, Chien-Ting J. Kim, Dawoon E. Liodakis, Ioannis Ursini, Francesco Middei, Riccardo Di Marco, Alessandro La Monaca, Fabio Banerjee, Srimanta Fukumura, Keigo Maksym, W. Peter Mikušincová, Romana Nemmen, Rodrigo Petrucci, Pierre-Olivier Soffitta, Paolo Svoboda, Jiří High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN) provides a unique view of Comptonization and non-thermal emission from accreting black holes in the low-accretion rate regime. However, to decipher the exact nature of the Comptonizing corona in LLAGN, its geometry and emission mechanism must be understood beyond the limits of spectro-timing techniques. Spectro-polarimetry offers the potential to break the degeneracies between different coronal emission models. Compton-thin LLAGN provide an opportunity for such spectro-polarimetric exploration in the 2-8 keV energy range using IXPE. In this work, we carry out a spectro-polarimetric analysis of the first IXPE observation, in synergy with a contemporaneous NuSTAR observation, of an LLAGN: NGC 2110. Using 554.4 ks of IXPE data from October 2024, we constrain the 99% upper limit on the Polarization Degree (PD) to be less than 8.3% assuming the corresponding Polarization Angle (PA) to be aligned with the radio jet, and less than 3.6% if in the perpendicular direction. In the absence of a significant PD detection, the PA remains formally unconstrained, yet the polarization significance contours appear to be aligned with the radio jet, tentatively supporting models in which the corona is radially extended in the plane of the disk. We also carry out detailed Monte Carlo simulations using MONK and STOKES codes to test different coronal models against our results and compare the polarization properties between NGC 2110 and brighter Seyferts. |
| title | First X-ray polarimetric view of a Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus: the case of NGC 2110 |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01071 |