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A fraction of active galactic nuclei (AGN) exhibit dramatic variability, which is observed on timescales down to minutes in the X-ray band. We introduce the case study of 1H 1934-063 (z = 0.0102), a Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) among the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Sara E. Frederick , Erin Kara , Christopher S. Reynolds , Ciro Pinto , Andrew C. Fabian

Context. Ionized outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are thought to influence the evolution of their host galaxies and super-massive black holes (SMBHs). Distance is important to understand the kinetic power of the outflows as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 Keqin Zhao , Jelle S. Kaastra , Liyi Gu

Utilizing a range of techniques including multi-band light curves, softness ratio analysis, structure functions, rms spectra, cross-correlation functions, and ratios of spectra from different intervals, we present a comprehensive study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Lu-Xin Ren , Jun-Xian Wang , Jia-Lai Kang

New observations using narrow band imaging, long-slit spectroscopy and MERLIN observations of the nuclear region of the Seyfert galaxy NGC~4051 have been made. An edge brightened, triangular region of ionized gas extending 420 pc from the…

We detect seven distinct absorbing systems in the high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A, taken with XMM-Newton. Firstly we detect absorption due to cold gas in our own Galaxy and warm gas in the Galactic halo or…

X-ray reverberation, where light-travel time delays map out the compact geometry around the inner accretion flow in supermassive black holes, has been discovered in several of the brightest, most variable and well-known Seyfert galaxies. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 E. Kara , W. N. Alston , A. C. Fabian , E. M. Cackett , P. Uttley , C. S. Reynolds , A. Zoghbi

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to be variable across all wavelengths. Significant observational efforts have been invested in the last decade in studying their ultraviolet (UV) and optical variability. Long and densely sampled,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Papoutsis , I. E. Papadakis , C. Panagiotou , M. Dovčiak , E. Kammoun

We report the discovery of hard X-ray delays in the X-ray emission of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 110, based on a long XMM-Newton observation. Cross correlation between the X-ray light curves of different energy bands reveals an energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Surajit Dasgupta , A. R. Rao

We analyse the spectra of the archival XMM-Newton data of the Seyfert 1 AGN Zw 229.015 in the energy range $0.3 - 10.0$ keV. When fitted with a simple power-law, the spectrum shows signatures of weak soft excess below 1.0 keV. We find that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Oluwashina Adegoke , Suvendu Rakshit , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We present the results of recent Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer and Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origins Spectrograph observations of the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 which shows a strong, non-varying X-ray warm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 A. E. Scott , W. N. Brandt , E. Behar , D. M. Crenshaw , J. R. Gabel , R. R. Gibson , S. Kaspi , S. B. Kraemer , T. J. Turner

We present intensive quasi-simultaneous X-ray and radio monitoring of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051, over a 16 month period in 2000-2001. Observations were made with the Rossi Timing X-ray Explorer (RXTE) and the Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Sadie Jones , Ian McHardy , Derek Moss , Nick Seymour , Elme Breedt , Phil Uttley , Elmar Kording , Valeriu Tudose

We report on the X-ray monitoring programme (covering slightly more than 11 days) carried out jointly by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR on the intermediate Seyfert galaxy Mrk 915. The light curves extracted in different energy ranges show a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 L. Ballo , P. Severgnini , R. Della Ceca , V. Braito , S. Campana , A. Moretti , C. Vignali , A. Zaino

We present a detailed study of the ionised environment of the Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 704 using medium and high resolution X-ray spectra obtained with a long XMM-Newton observation. The 0.3-10 kev continuum, well described by a power-law…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sibasish Laha , Gulab. C. Dewangan , Ajit. K. Kembhavi

We present in this paper the results of a 270 ks Chandra HETGS observation in the context of a large multiwavelength campaign on the Seyfert galaxy Mrk 509. The HETGS spectrum allows us to study the high ionisation warm absorber and the…

We present and analyze the variability of three Seyfert galaxies on intra-day timescales. We have analyzed in a uniform manner the 38 longest ( $>30$ ks) observations made for NGC 4051, MCG$-06-30-15$ and NGC 4151 by XMM-Newton between 2000…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Ashutosh Tripathi , Paul J. Wiita , Alok C. Gupta , Minfeng Gu , M. Liao

The absorption lines in the soft X-ray spectrum of MCG--6-30-15 are studied using the Reflection Grating Spectrometer data from the 2001 XMM-Newton 320 ks observation. A line search of the full time-averaged spectrum reveals 51 absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 A. K. Turner , A. C. Fabian , J. C. Lee , S. Vaughan

We report on soft X-ray observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15 with the Low and Medium Energy Concentrator Spectrometers on board BeppoSAX. The time averaged 0.1-4 keV spectrum shows evidence for a complex warm absorber. K-edges…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Astrid Orr , S. Molendi , F. Fiore , P. Grandi , A. N. Parmar , Alan Owens

As an inaugural investigation under the X-ray Winds In Nearby-to-distant Galaxies (X-WING) program, we assembled a dataset comprising 132 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) spanning redshifts $z \sim 0$-$4$ characterized by blueshifted…

Contemporary radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the AGNs predicts presence of the hot and strong accretion disk wind, which gets unstable far from the central region and turns into gas clumps. These inner-wind and outer clumps may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Takuya Midooka , Misaki Mizumoto , Ken Ebisawa

NGC 4051 is one of the X-ray brightest and most variable Seyfert galaxies. During 2009 NGC 4051 was caught at its lowest state ever observed by $XMM-Newton$. The low source continuum emission allows a clear measurement of the He-like…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Uria Peretz , Jon M. Miller , Ehud Behar