6th FERO meeting

ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, PRAGUE
Boční II 1401, 141 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic

30th – 31st of August 2012



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Kendrah Murphy

A Chandra HETG View of MCG+8-11-11


We present preliminary results of an analysis of a 118 ks HETG observation of the X-ray bright, Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG+8-11-11, in conjunction with 100 ks of archival Suzaku data. We applied self-consistent, broadband spectral fitting models MYTorus and PEXMON to the HETG, XIS and HXD-PIN data to investigate the signatures of distant absorption and reflection. Both the Chandra and Suzaku data are necessary to determine robust constraints on the physical parameters of the system: while Chandra is better suited for investigating narrow absorption and emission line features, Suzaku aids in investigating the continuum and relativistic line emission. We find evidence of Fe Kα, Fe Kβ, Ni Kα and Fe XXVI line emission and, using the MYTorus model, we find that both sets of data are consistent with a Compton-thick reprocessor (NH~10^24 cm^-2) that is out of the line-of- sight.