ON THE ORIGIN OF THE BROAD, RELATIVISTIC IRON LINE
OF MCG--6-30-15 OBSERVED BY XMM-NEWTON

 

Andrea Martocchia (1), Giorgio Matt (1) and Vladimir Karas (2)


 
 1 - Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' degli Studi "ROMA TRE"
Via della Vasca Navale 84, I--00146 Roma (Italy);
E-mail: martocchia@fis.uniroma3.it, matt@haendel.fis.uniroma3.it

 2 - Astronomical Institute of the Charles University,
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
V Holesovickach 2, CZ--180 00 Praha (Czech Republic);
E-mail: vladimir.karas@mff.cuni.cz
 

Abstract

The relativistic iron line profile recently observed by XMM-Newton in the spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 (Wilms et al., 2001) is discussed in the framework of a simple lamp-post model.
It is shown that the steep disc emissivity, the large line equivalent width and the amount of Compton reflection can be self-consistently reproduced in this scenario.