AGN-host interaction in IC 5063. I. Large-scale X-ray morphology and
  spectral analysis
  We report the analysis of the deep (270 ks) X-ray Chandra data of one of the
most radio-loud, Seyfert 2 galaxies in the nearby Universe (z=0.01135), IC
5063. The alignment of the radio structure with the galactic disk and ionized
bi-cone, enables us to study the effects of both radio jet and nuclear
irradiation on the interstellar medium (ISM). The nuclear and bi-cone spectra
suggest a low photoionization phase mixed with a more ionized or thermal gas
component, while the cross-cone spectrum is dominated by shocked and
collisionally ionized gas emission. The clumpy morphology of the soft (<3 keV)
X-ray emission along the jet trails, and the large (~2.4 kpc) filamentary
structure perpendicular to the radio jets at softer energies (<1.5 keV),
suggest a large contribution of the jet-ISM interaction to the circumnuclear
gas emission. The hard X-ray continuum (>3 keV) and the Fe K-alpha 6.4 keV
emission are both extended to kpc size along the bi-cone direction, suggesting
an interaction of nuclear photons with dense clouds in the galaxy disk, as
observed in other Compton Thick (CT) active nuclei. The north-west cone
spectrum also exhibits an Fe XXV emission line, which appears spatially
extended and spatially correlated with the most intense radio hot-spot,
suggesting jet-ISM interaction.
