| Issue |
A&A
Volume 383, Number 3, MarchI 2002
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| Page(s) | L23 - L26 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20020089 | |
| Published online | 15 March 2002 | |
Letter to the Editor
On the origin of the broad, relativistic iron line of MCG–6-30-15 observed by XMM-Newton
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi “ROMA TRE”, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy e-mail: matt@fis.uniroma3.it
2
Astronomical Institute of the Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Praha, Czech Republic e-mail: vladimir.karas@mff.cuni.cz
Corresponding author: A. Martocchia, martocchia@fis.uniroma3.it
Received:
12
December
2001
Accepted:
10
January
2002
The relativistic iron line profile recently observed by XMM-Newton in the spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG–6-30-15 (Wilms et al. [CITE]) is discussed in the framework of the lamp-post model. It is shown that the steep disc emissivity, the large line equivalent width and the amount of Compton reflection can be self-consistently reproduced in this scenario.
Key words: relativity / line: profiles; black hole physics / accretion, accretion discs / X-rays: galaxies / galaxies: individual: MCG–6-30-15
© ESO, 2002
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