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The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long held the promise of shedding light on their detailed structure, and possibly other astrophysical phenonema. Different emission mechanisms lead to different patterns of variability in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. S. Hawkins

We examine simultaneous X-ray and UV light curves from multi-epoch 8 day XMM Newton observations of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707-495. The simultaneous observations reveal that both X-ray and UV emission are variable and that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-21 Damien Robertson , Luigi C. Gallo , Abderahmen Zoghbi , Andrew C. Fabian

We present results on the X-ray and optical/UV emission from the type IIP SN 2006bp and the interaction of the SN shock with its environment, obtained with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) on-board the Swift…

The observed relation between the soft X-ray and the optical-ultraviolet emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is non-linear and it is usually parametrized as a dependence between the logarithm of the monochromatic luminosity at 2500…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 E. Lusso , G. Risaliti

Recent intensive monitoring campaigns of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have provided simultaneous X-ray, UV, and optical data of unprecedented quality. The observations reveal a strong correlation between the UV and optical variability, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 M. Papoutsis , I. E. Papadakis , C. Panagiotou , E. Kammoun , M. Dovciak

A tight non-linear relation between the X-ray and the optical-ultraviolet (UV) emission has been observed in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) over a wide range of redshift and several orders of magnitude in luminosity, suggesting the existence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Francesco Salvestrini , Guido Risaliti , Susanna Bisogni , Elisabeta Lusso , Cristian Vignali

The super-massive black-holes in the centers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are surrounded by obscuring matter that can block the nuclear radiation. Depending on the amount of blocked radiation, the flux from the AGN can be too faint to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-06 Eugenio Bottacini , Marco Ajello , Jochen Greiner

The relation between X-ray and UV/optical variability in AGNs has been explored in many individual sources, however a large sample study is yet absent. Through matching the XMM-Newton serendipitous X-ray and UV source catalogs with SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Hao Sou , Jun-Xian Wang , Zhang-Liang Xie , Wen-Yong Kang , Zhen-Yi Cai

The tight inter-band correlation and the lag-wavelength relation among UV/optical continua of active galactic nuclei have been firmly established. They are usually understood within the widespread reprocessing scenario, however, the implied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-16 Zhen-Yi Cai , Jun-Xian Wang , Fei-Fan Zhu , Mou-Yuan Sun , Wei-Min Gu , Xin-Wu Cao , Feng Yuan

We use high-resolution UV-to-optical imaging from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to construct spatially resolved spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for seven nearby ($z<0.07$) hard (14--195$\,$keV) X-ray-selected broad-line active…

We use XMM-Newton and Swift data to study spectral variability in the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), Holmberg IX X-1. The source luminosity varies by a factor 3-4, giving rise to corresponding spectral changes which are significant, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Vierdayanti , C. Done , T. R. Roberts , S. Mineshige

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are the most numerous population among the Galactic objects emitting in hard X-rays. Most probably, they are responsible for the extended hard X-ray emission of the Galactic ridge and the central Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Valery F. Suleimanov , Victor Doroshenko , Klaus Werner

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are generally considered as the scaled-up counterparts of X-ray binaries (XRBs). It is known that the power spectral density (PSD) of the X-ray emission of XRBs shows significant evolution with spectral states.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Haonan Yang , Chichuan Jin , Weimin Yuan

Recently, nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been subject to long X-rays/UV/optical monitoring campaigns. These campaigns reveal a strong correlation between the various UV and optical bands, with time lags increasing with wavelength.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-20 E. Kammoun , I. E. Papadakis , M. Dovčiak , C. Panagiotou

Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) provide a unique opportunities to probe the geometry and energetics of super-Eddington accretion. The radiative processes involved in super-Eddington accretion are not well understood, and so studying…

X-ray variability is very common in active galactic nuclei (AGN), but these variations may not occur similarly in different families of AGN. We aim to disentangle the structure of low ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Lorena Hernandez-Garcia , Josefa Masegosa , Omaira Gonzalez-Martin , Isabel Marquez , Jaime Perea

Most investigations of the X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been concentrated on the detailed analyses of individual, nearby sources. A relatively small number of studies have treated the ensemble behaviour of the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 F. Vagnetti , R. Middei , M. Antonucci , M. Paolillo , R. Serafinelli

We report on the results of a multiwavelength monitoring campaign of the bright, nearby Seyfert galaxy, Ark 120 using a ~50-day observing programme with Swift and a ~4-month co-ordinated ground-based observing campaign, predominantly using…

Hard X-ray ($\geq 10$ keV) observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can shed light on some of the most obscured episodes of accretion onto supermassive black holes. The 70-month Swift/BAT all-sky survey, which probes the 14-195 keV…

We present results from the optical, ultraviolet and X-ray monitoring of the NLS1 galaxy IRAS 13224-3809 taken with Swift and XMM-Newton during 2016. IRAS 13224-3809 is the most variable bright AGN in the X-ray sky and shows strong X-ray…