Chandra observations of NGC 4258 were analyzed to investigate the circumnuclear environment of the H 2 O megamaser galaxy. Its adaptively-smoothed image shows a bright nucleus and another weak source nearby. For the maser host nucleus, our preferred fitting of its spectra gives the absorption of ∼7×10 22 cm −2 .
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