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arxiv: astro-ph/0011167 · v1 · pith:5CKK7XDDnew · submitted 2000-11-08 · 🌌 astro-ph

Soft X-ray emission lines from a relativistic accretion disk in MCG -6-30-15 and Mrk 766

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XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) spectra of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies MCG -6-30-15 and Mrk 766 are physically and spectroscopically inconsistent with standard models comprising a power-law continuum absorbed by either cold or ionized matter. We propose that the remarkably similar features detected in both objects in the 5 - 35 A band are H-like oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon emission lines, gravitationally redshifted and broadened by relativistic effects in the vicinity of a Kerr black hole. We discuss the implications of our interpretation, and demonstrate that the derived parameters can be physically self-consistent.

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