Tracing Fe K X-ray reverberation lag in the energy-resolved spectra of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Ton S180

Abstract

We report the Fe K relativistic reverberation feature for the first time in the Narrow-line Seyfert\,1 galaxy Ton\,S180. Using a long observation from {\it XMM-Newton} we find that the Fe K emission lag peaks at $117\pm 49$ s in the lag energy spectrum computed for frequencies $(0.3-8.5)\times 10^{-4}$ Hz. The lag amplitude drops to $22.85\pm 14.20$ s as the frequency increases to $(8.5-30)\times 10^{-4}$ Hz. The time-averaged spectrum of the source shows a relatively narrow Fe K line at $\sim 6.4$ keV, resulting in black hole spin to be low ($a=0.43_{-0.14}^{+0.10}$) found from the reflection modelling. We perform general relativistic transfer function modelling of the lag energy spectra individually. This provides an independent timing-based measure of the spin at $a=0.30_{-0.17}^{+0.34}$, and black hole mass $M_{\mathrm{BH}}=0.29_{-0.16}^{+0.01}\times 10^8{M}_{\odot }$, comparable to the previous measurement, and height of the corona $h=2.59_{-0.33}^{+5.17}{r}_{\mathrm{g}}$. Further, we observe that the Fe K lag and the black hole mass fit well in the linear lag-mass relation shown by other Seyfert 1 galaxies.

Accepted for Publication in ApJ, 10 pages, 7 figures, 2 Tables