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An iron K component to the ultrafast outflow in NGC 1313 X-1

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Article

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Authors

Walton, DJ 
Middleton, MJ 
Fabian, AC 
Bachetti, M 

Abstract

We present the detection of an absorption feature at E = 8.77−0.06+0.05 keV in the combined X-ray spectrum of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-1 observed with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, significant at the 3σ level. If associated with blueshifted ionized iron, the implied outflow velocity is ~0.2c for Fe XXVI, or ~0.25c for Fe XXV. These velocities are similar to the ultrafast outflow seen in absorption recently discovered in this source at lower energies by XMM-Newton, and we therefore conclude that this is an iron component to the same outflow. Photoionization modeling marginally prefers the Fe XXV solution, but in either case the outflow properties appear to be extreme, potentially supporting a super-Eddington hypothesis for NGC 1313 X-1.

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Keywords

black hole physics, X-rays: binaries, X-rays: individual (NGC 1313 X-1)

Journal Title

The Astrophysical Journal Letters

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Journal ISSN

2041-8205
2041-8213

Volume Title

826

Publisher

IOP Publishing
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M005283/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/N000927/1)
European Research Council (340442)
M.J.M. acknowledges support from an STFC Ernest Rutherford fellowship, C.P. and A.C.F. acknowledge support from ERC Advanced Grant 340442, and D.B. acknowledges financial support from the French Space Agency (CNES). This research has made use of data obtained with NuSTAR, a project led by Caltech, funded by NASA, and managed by NASA/JPL, and has utilized the NUSTARDAS software package, jointly developed by the ASDC (Italy) and Caltech (USA). This research has also made use of data obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States.