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Spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from X-ray to far-infrared (FIR) wavelengths are presented for a sample of 1246 X-ray luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN; $L_{0.5-10\rm{keV}}>10^{43}$ erg s$^{-1}$), with $z_{\rm{spec}}<1.2$, selected…

We perform a detailed investigation of moderate-to-high quality X-ray spectra of ten of the most luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) known at z>4 (up to z~6.28). This study includes five new XMM observations and five archived X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Shemmer , W. N. Brandt , C. Vignali , D. P. Schneider , X. Fan , G. T. Richards , M. A. Strauss

Flux-resolved X-ray spectroscopy is widely adopted to investigate the spectral variation of a target between various flux levels. In many cases it is done through horizontally splitting a single light curve into multiple flux levels with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-03 Jia-Lai Kang , Jun-Xian Wang

Variability in the X-rays is a key ingredient in understanding and unveiling active galactic nuclei (AGN) properties. In this band flux variations occur on short time scales (hours) as well as on larger times scales. While short time scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 R. Middei , F. Vagnetti , S. Bianchi , F. La Franca , M. Paolillo , F. Ursini

Fifteen ROSAT PSPC observations available in the public archive are analyzed in order to study time and spectral variability of the 12 EMSS AGN detected by ROSAT with more than 2000 net counts. Time variability was investigated on 13…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ciliegi , Tommaso Maccacaro

We present the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of a hard X-ray selected sample. The sample contains 136 sources with F(2-10 keV)>10^-14 erg/cm^2/s and 132 are AGNs. The sources are detected in a 1 square degree area of the…

We present preliminary results on the variability properties of AGN above 20 keV in order to show the potential of the INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI and Swift/BAT instruments for hard X-ray timing analysis of AGN. The 15-50 keV light curves of 36 AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-26 S. Soldi , G. Ponti , V. Beckmann , P. Lubinski

AGNs are known to be variable in almost all wavelengths and timescales. The shortest variability timescale of AGNs can be used to probe the smallest scale structures within AGNs. We aim to measure the shortest detected variability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai , Natalie Kovacevic

Number of monitoring observations of continuum emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) have been made in optical--X-ray bands. The results obtained so far show (i) random up and down on timescales longer than decades, (ii) no typical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Kawaguchi , S. Mineshige

We present a sample of 10 low-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) selected from the 40-month NuSTAR serendipitous survey. The sample is selected to have robust NuSTAR detections at $3 - 24$~keV, to be at $z < 0.3$, and to have optical r-band…

The reliability of detecting source variability in sparsely and irregularly sampled X-ray light curves is investigated. This is motivated by the unprecedented survey capabilities of eROSITA onboard SRG, providing light curves for many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Johannes Buchner , Thomas Boller , David Bogensberger , Adam Malyali , Kirpal Nandra , Joern Wilms , Tom Dwelly , Teng Liu

Rapid flux changes in the X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei are commonly observed. The power-density spectra show a pseudo power-law form with a turnover at low frequencies and a high frequency break, similar to galactic black-hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Nandra

Our goal is to probe the populations of obscured and unobscured AGN investigating their optical-IR and X-ray properties as a function of X-ray flux, luminosity and redshift within a hard X-ray selected sample of 136 X-ray sources in the XMM…

Information on the structure around active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long been derived from measuring lags in their varying light output at different wavelengths. In principle, infrared data would reach to larger radii, potentially even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 E. Elmer , M. Merrifield , O. Almaini , W. G. Hartley , D. T. Maltby

The SWIFT gamma ray observatory's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) has detected a sample of active galactic nuclei (AGN) based solely on their hard X-ray flux (14-195 keV). In this paper, we present for the first time {\it XMM-Newton} X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lisa M. Winter , Richard F. Mushotzky , Jack Tueller , Craig Markwardt

We present a sample of 18 optically-selected and X-ray detected spatially offset active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In 9 systems, the X-ray AGN is spatially offset from the galactic stellar core that is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 R. Scott Barrows , Julia M. Comerford , Jenny E. Greene , David Pooley

A simple, model-independent method to quantify the stochastic variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is the structure function (SF) analysis. If the SF for the timescales shorter than the decorrelation timescale $\tau$ is a single…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Szymon Kozłowski

In modeling the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the inclination angle is a parameter that can play an important role in analyzing the X-ray spectra of AGN, but it has never been studied in detail. We present a broadband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 X. Zhao , S. Marchesi , M. Ajello , M. balokovic , T. Fischer

We present the Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS), providing a new well-defined sample constructed from the observations performed using the Swift X-ray Telescope. The ExSeSS sample consists of 79,342 sources detected in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Jack N. Delaney , James Aird , Phil A. Evans , Cassandra Barlow-Hall , Julian P. Osborne , Michael G. Watson
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