X-ray Constraint on Location of AGN Torus in Circinus Galaxy

Abstract

The location of the obscuring "torus" in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is still an unresolved issue. The line widths of X-ray fluorescence lines originated from the torus, particularly Fe K$\alpha$, carry key information on the radii of line emitting regions. Utilizing XCLUMPY (Tanimoto et al. 2019), an X-ray clumpy torus model, we develop a realistic model of emission line profiles from an AGN torus where we take into account line broadening due to the Keplerian motion around the black hole. Then, we apply the updated model to the best available broadband spectra (3-100 keV) of the Circinus galaxy observed with Suzaku, XMM-Newton, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and Chandra, including 0.62 Ms Chandra/HETG data. We confirm that the torus is Compton-thick (hydrogen column-density along the equatorial plane is $N_{\mathrm{H}}^{\mathrm{Equ}}=2.16_{-0.16}^{+0.24}\times 10^{25}{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}$), geometrically thin (torus angular width $\sigma =10.3_{-0.3}^{+0.7}\mathrm{degrees}$), viewed edge-on (inclination $i=78.3_{-0.9}^{+0.4}\mathrm{degrees}$), and has super-solar abundance ($1.52_{-0.06}^{+0.04}$ times solar). Simultaneously analyzing the Chandra/HETG first, second, and third order spectra with consideration of the spatial extent of the Fe K$\alpha$ line emitting region, we constrain the inner radius of the torus to be $1.9_{-0.8}^{+3.1}\times 10^5$ times the gravitational radius, or $1.6_{-0.9}^{+1.5}\times 10^{-2}\mathrm{pc}$ for a black hole mass of $(1.7\pm 0.3)\times 10^6{M}_{\odot }$. This is about 3 times smaller than that estimated from the dust sublimation radius, suggesting that the inner side of the dusty region of the torus is composed of dust-free gas.

arXiv comment20 pages, 10 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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