Deep Chandra Observations of NGC 5728: Morphology and Spectral Properties of the Extended X-ray Emission
arXiv:2303.00789 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acd052
Abstract
Recent deep Chandra observations of nearby Compton thick (CT) AGN have produced surprising results, uncovering extended emission not only in the soft X-rays but in the hard emission (>3 keV), challenging the long-held belief that the characteristic hard X-ray continuum and fluorescent Fe Ka lines are associated with the torus in the standard picture of AGN. In this work, we present the analysis of our deep (~261 ks) X-ray Chandra ACIS-S observations of NGC 5728, a nearby (z=0.00932) CT AGN. We find that the diffuse emission is more extended at lower energies, in the bicone direction out to ~2 kpc radially, but also significantly extended in the direction of the cross-cone, out to ~1.4 kpc. Our results suggest that the ratio of detected photons in the cross-cone to the bicone region is ~16%, below 3 keV, decreasing to 5% for energies 3-6 keV. The nuclear spectrum suggests a low photoionization phase mixed with a more ionized gas component, while the bicone and cross-cone spectra are dominated by a mix of photoionization and shocked gas emission. A mixture of thermal and photoionization models to fit the spectra indicates the presence of complex gas interactions, consistent with previous observations of other CT AGN (e.g., ESO 428-G014).
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