The hard X-ray spectrum of NGC 5506 as seen by NuSTAR

G. Matt, M. Balokovic, A. Marinucci, D. R. Ballantyne, S. E. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, A. Comastri, W. W. Craig, P. Gandhi, C. J. Hailey, F. A. Harrison, G. Madejski, K. K. Madsen, D. Stern, W. W. Zhang

Published 2014-12-15Version 1

NuSTAR observed the bright Compton-thin, narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy, NGC 5506, for about 56 ks. In agreement with past observations, the spectrum is well fit by a power law with Gamma~1.9, a distant reflection component and narrow ionized iron lines. A relativistically blurred reflection component is not required by the data. When an exponential high energy cutoff is added to the power law, a value of 720(+130,-190) keV (90% confidence level) is found. Even allowing for systematic uncertainties, we find a 3 sigma lower limit to the high-energy cutoff of 350 keV, the highest lower limit to the cutoff energy found so far in an AGN by NuSTAR.