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We have examined simultaneous X-ray and optical light curves of a sample of eight nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies observed using the EPIC X-ray cameras and Optical Monitor on board XMM. The observations span ~1 day and revealed optical…

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The narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy SBS 0846+513 was first detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board Fermi in 2011 June-July when it underwent a period of flaring activity. Since then, as Fermi continues to accumulate data on this…

We investigate the relationship between the long term X-ray spectral variability in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy NGC 4151 and its intrinsic absorption, by comparing the 2014 simultaneous ultraviolet/X-Ray observations taken with Hubble STIS…

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We report results from long-term (approximately 1240 days) X-ray (0.3-8.0 keV) monitoring of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5408 X-1 with the Swift/X-Ray Telescope. Here we expand on earlier work by Strohmayer (2009) who used only a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Dheeraj R. Pasham , Tod E. Strohmayer

We present preliminary results from a long Chandra HETG observation of the luminous Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495. We find a complex X-ray spectrum comprised of a two-component continuum with superimposed emission and absorption…

We analyse 15 XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051 obtained over 45 days to determine the ultraviolet (UV) light curve variability characteristics and search for correlated UV/X-ray emission. The UV light curve shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 W. N. Alston , S. Vaughan , P. Uttley

We report on an X-ray observing campaign of the ultraluminous X-ray source IC 342 X-1 with NuSTAR and Swift in 2016 October, in which we captured the very moment when the source showed spectral variation. The Swift/XRT spectrum obtained in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Megumi Shidatsu , Yoshihiro Ueda , Sergei Fabrika

Here we report an optical quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with a period of $\sim$134~day detected in g- and r-band light curves of a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy TXS 1206+549 at redshift of 1.34 with the data from the Zwicky Transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Chongyang Ren , Sisi Sun , Pengfei Zhang

(Abridged) We present an analysis of a 10-day continuous ASCA observation of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy IRAS 13224-3809. The soft (0.7-1.3 keV) and hard (1.3-10 keV) X-ray band light curves binned to 5000s reveal trough-to-peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. C. Dewangan , Th. Boller , K. P. Singh , K. M. Leighly

SDSS J120136.02+300305.5 was detected in an XMM-Newton slew from June 2010 with a flux 56 times higher than an upper limit from ROSAT, corresponding to Lx~3x10^44 ergs/s. It has the optical spectrum of a quiescent galaxy (z=0.146). Overall…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 R. D. Saxton , A. M. Read , P. Esquej , S. Komossa , S. Dougherty , P. Rodriguez-Pascual , D. Barrado

NGC 7793 P13 is an ultraluminous X-ray source harboring an accreting pulsar. We report on the detection of a ~65 d period X-ray modulation with Swift observations in this system. The modulation period found in the X-ray band is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Chin-Ping Hu , K. L. Li , Albert K. H. Kong , C. -Y. Ng , Lupin Chun-Che Lin

MCG-6-30-15 is one of the most observed Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the X-ray band. In this paper we examine the X-ray time lags in this source using a total of 600 ks in observations (440 ks exposure) taken with the XMM-Newton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Kara , A. C. Fabian , A. Marinucci , G. Matt , M. L. Parker , W. Alston , L. W. Brenneman , E. M. Cackett , G. Miniutti

We report the results of two Chandra ACIS-S observations from February and August 2003 of the highly X-ray variable Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy RX J2217.9--5941. Observations spanning the time from the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS) through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Grupe , K. M. Leighly , V. Burwitz , P. Predehl , S. Mathur

We present NuSTAR observations of the bright Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 2110 obtained in 2012, when the source was at the highest flux level ever observed, and in 2013, when the source was at a more typical flux level. We include archival…

We present an X-ray/UV reverberation analysis of NGC 7469 across 210 days, using daily NICER observations with contemporaneous monitoring by Swift UVOT+XRT. We model the X-ray spectrum with a power law continuum and a soft excess during…

We present new broadband X-ray observations of the $z \sim 2.5$ lensed quasar 2MASS J1042+1641, combining $XMM$-$Newton$, $Chandra$ and $NuSTAR$ to provide coverage of the X-ray spectrum over the 0.3$-$40 keV bandpass in the observed frame,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 D. J. Walton , M. T. Reynolds , D. Stern , M. Brightman , C. Lemon

PG1535+547 is a bright NLS1 galaxy, whose high energy emission shows strong variability in shape and flux. ROSAT data classified it as soft X-ray weak QSO (objects whose X-ray-to-optical flux ratio is smaller than in typical QSO): their…

We have conducted a new long-term multi-wavelength campaign on one of the most super- Eddington narrow-line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) known, namely RX J0134.2-4258. In this first paper, we report deep simultaneous X-ray observations performed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Martin Ward , Francesca Panessa , Bo Liu , Heyang Liu

We present analysis of the long-term X-ray spectral variability of Seyfert galaxies as observed by Swift, which provides well-sampled observations over a much larger flux range and a much longer timescale than any other X-ray observatory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-27 S. D. Connolly , I. M. McHardy , T. Dwelly

We present an analysis of the 2013 Suzaku campaign on the nearby luminous quasar PDS 456, covering a total duration of ~1 Ms and a net exposure of 455 ks. During these observations, the X-ray flux was suppressed by a factor of >10 in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Gabriele A. Matzeu , James N. Reeves , Emanuele Nardini , Valentina Braito , Michele T Costa , Francesco Tombesi , Jason Gofford