Broadband X-ray spectral analysis of the Seyfert 1 galaxy GRS 1734-292

TL;DR

This study analyzes the broadband X-ray spectrum of Seyfert 1 galaxy GRS 1734-292 using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR data, revealing a low high-energy cutoff, coronal plasma properties, and evidence of warm absorption and reflection features.

Contribution

First broadband X-ray spectral analysis of GRS 1734-292 combining non-simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations, providing detailed coronal and absorption characteristics.

Findings

NuSTAR spectrum shows a low high-energy cutoff at 53 keV.

Coronal plasma temperature estimated at ~12 keV with specific optical depths.

Presence of warm absorber and iron Kα emission line detected.

Abstract

We discuss the broadband X-ray spectrum of GRS 1734-292 obtained from non-simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations, performed in 2009 and 2014, respectively. GRS1734-292 is a Seyfert 1 galaxy, located near the Galactic plane at $z=0.0214$. The NuSTAR spectrum ($3-80$ keV) is dominated by a primary power-law continuum with $\Gamma=1.65 \pm 0.05$ and a high-energy cutoff $E_c=53^{+11}_{-8}$ keV, one of the lowest measured by NuSTAR in a Seyfert galaxy. Comptonization models show a temperature of the coronal plasma of $kT_e=11.9^{+1.2}_{-0.9}$ keV and an optical depth, assuming a slab geometry, $\tau=2.98^{+0.16}_{-0.19}$ or a similar temperature and $\tau=6.7^{+0.3}_{-0.4}$ assuming a spherical geometry. The 2009 XMM-Newton spectrum is well described by a flatter intrinsic continuum ($\Gamma=1.47^{+0.07}_{-0.03}$) and one absorption line due to Fe\textsc{XXV} K$\alpha$ produced by a warm absorber. Both data sets show a modest iron K$\alpha$ emission line at $6.4$ keV and the associated Compton reflection, due to reprocessing from neutral circumnuclear material.