CHANDRA HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE CIRCUMNUCLEAR MATTER IN THE BROAD-LINE RADIO GALAXY 3C 445

We present evidence for X-ray line emitting and absorbing gas in the nucleus of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 445. A 200 ks Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating observation of 3C 445 reveals the presence of several highly ionized emission lines in the soft X-ray spectrum, primarily from the He- and H-like ions of O, Ne, Mg, and Si. Radiative recombination emission is detected from O VII and O VIII, indicating that the emitting gas is photoionized. The He-like emission appears to be resolved into forbidden and intercombination line components, which implies a high density of >10{sup 10} cm{sup -3}, while the oxygen lines are velocity broadened with a mean width of {approx}2600 km s{sup -1} (FWHM). The density and widths of the ionized lines indicate an origin of the gas on sub-parsec scales in the broad-line region. The X-ray continuum of 3C 445 is heavily obscured either by a partial coverer or by a photoionized absorber of column density N{sub H} = 2 x 10{sup 23} cm{sup -2} and ionization parameter log {xi} = 1.4 erg cm s{sup -1}. However, the view of the X-ray line emission is unobscured, which requires the absorber to be located at radii well more » within any parsec-scale molecular torus. Instead we suggest that the X-ray absorber in 3C 445 may be associated with an outflowing but clumpy accretion disk wind, with an observed outflow velocity of {approx}10, 000 km s{sup -1}. « less