Adaptively smoothed Swift/XRT image of the soft X-ray emission (0.3–10 keV) of NGC 7469 field, of which localization is indicated by the selected yellow dashed-line box in Fig. 2. Contours correspond to nine logarithmic intervals in the range of 0.003–5% with respect to the brightest pixel, and contour levels demonstrate the minimal contamination by other point sources and diffuse emission.