Absorption Measure Distribution in AGN

Tek P. Adhikari, Agata Różańska, Krzysztof Hryniewicz and Bożena Czerny

The most common feature of the X-ray outflows observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is their broad ionization distribution spanning up to ∼5 orders of magnitude in ionization levels. This feature is quantified in terms of absorption measure distribution (AMD), defined as the distribution of column density with the ionization parameter. Recently, the photoionization models with constant pressure assumption are shown to well reproduce the observed shape of AMD. However, there exist inconsistencies in the normalization and the position of discontinuities presented in the AMD shape between the observation and model. In this work, we show that AMD normalization differs by one order of magnitude depending on the shape of ionizing spectral energy distribution (SED).

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 7, 322-325 (2018)

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