ESA Science & Technology - Publication Archive
Publication archive
Publication archive
Aims: The scope of the present work is to statistically quantify the parameters and incidence of the blue-shifted Fe K absorption lines through a uniform analysis on a large sample of radio-quiet AGNs. This allows us to assess their global detection significance and to overcome any possible publication bias.
Methods: We performed a blind search for narrow absorption features at energies greater than 6.4 keV in a sample of 42 radio-quiet AGNs observed with XMM-Newton. A simple uniform model composed by an absorbed power-law plus Gaussian emission and absorption lines provided a good fit for all the data sets. We derived the absorption lines parameters and calculated their detailed detection significance making use of the classical F-test and extensive Monte Carlo simulations.
Results: We detect 36 narrow absorption lines on a total of 101 XMM-Newton EPIC pn observations. The number of absorption lines at rest-frame energies higher than 7 keV is 22.
- The remainder of the abstract is truncated -
This page should automatically redirect you to the page with the publication's full details.
To go to the publication page, please click here.
We propose number of targets observed with SMART-1 for follow-up studies with LRO. We shall also discuss SMART-1 lunar highlights relevant for science and exploration, in relation with LRO/LCROSS and future lander missions.
This A&A issue features 13 articles describing the pre-flight status of the European Space Agency Planck mission, launched together with the Herschel satellite on 14 May 2009. The Planck mission is designed to image the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation field over the whole sky, with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution, as well as a wide frequency range. As a byproduct of that main goal, it will simultaneously address a wide range of galactic and extragalactic science. The mission involves more than four hundred scientists, who are currently working on data processing, calibration, and data analysis.
The satellite is scheduled to continuously acquire high-quality science data until the end of 2011. An early release of the compact source catalogue will be delivered in January 2011, together with a small set of science papers related to foreground astrophysical sources. The first major cosmology results will be delivered in December 2012.
In this special feature, the telescope's optical system and the design, ground calibration, and performance of the Planck lowand high-frequency instruments are described in detail.