The Future of X-ray Reverberation from AGN
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2017-05-10 v1
Abstract
XMM-Newton is capable of making a transformational advance in our understanding of how luminous accreting black holes work, by dedicating about 10 per cent of future observing time to long observations, of order Megaseconds, to X-ray variable Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) research. This would enable reverberation studies, already a commonplace feature of AGN, to proceed to the next level and follow the behaviour of the powerful dynamic corona. Such a dedicated legacy programme can only be carried out with XMM-Newton.
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@article{arxiv.1611.06909,
title = {The Future of X-ray Reverberation from AGN},
author = {A. C. Fabian and W. N. Alston and E. M. Cackett and E. Kara and P. Uttley and D. R. Wilkins},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.06909},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten as part of the proceedings of the workshop "XMM-Newton: The Next Decade"