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 XMM-Newton we find that the Fe K emission lag peaks at 11749 s in the lag energy spectrum computed for frequencies (0.3-8.5) × 10-4 Hz. The lag amplitude drops to 22.8514.20 s as the frequency increases to (8.5-30) × 10-4 Hz. The time-averaged spectrum of the source shows a relatively narrow Fe K line at 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 BH = 0.29-0.16+0.01×108M, comparable to the previous measurement, and height of the corona h = 2.59-0.33+5.17r 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.
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