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The Changing-Look active galactic nucleus Mkn 590 is currently in a rejuvenated state, exhibiting a contemporaneous flux rise across X-rays, UV, optical and cm wavelengths. In this study, we present three new optical spectra obtained with…

We present broadband UV/X-ray spectral variability of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC 1566 based on simultaneous near-ultraviolet (NUV) and X-ray observations performed by XMM-Newton, Swift, and NuSTAR satellites at five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Prakash Tripathi , Gulab C. Dewangan

Optical and near-infrared photometry, optical spectroscopy, and soft X-ray and UV monitoring of the changing look active galactic nucleus NGC 2617 show that it continues to have the appearance of a type-1 Seyfert galaxy. An optical light…

We present a NuSTAR and XMM-Newton monitoring campaign in 2014/2015 of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 1068. During the August 2014 observation, we detect with NuSTAR a flux excess above 20 keV ($32\pm6 \%$) with respect to the…

We present the results of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaigns of the changing look AGN NGC 3516 carried out in 2018 to 2020 covering the wavelength range from the X-ray to the optical. The facilities included the telescopes…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have long been known to be variable, but the amplitude, timescale and nature of these changes can often differ dramatically from object to object. The richest source of information about the properties of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Hartmut Winkler

The nature of the rare "Changing-look" (CL) phenomenon in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still under debate at current stage. We here present \it Swift/\rm XRT and UVOT follow-up observations of UGC\,3223, a newly discovered repeat CL-AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-30 J. Wang , D. W. Xu , J. Y. Wei

Here we report an identification of B3\,0749+460A as a new double-peaked local "changing-look" active galactic nucleus (CL-AGN) in terms of our multi-epoch spectroscopic analysis. By comparing our new spectra taken in 2021 with the ones…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 J. Wang , W. K. Zheng , D. W. Xu , T. G. Brink , A. V. Filippenko , C. Gao , S. S. Sun , J. Y. Wei

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) showing dramatic spectral and flux variations, either due to changes in the accretion rate (changing-state, CS-AGN) of the supermassive black hole or in the line-of-sight column density (changing-obscuration,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 A. Vietri , A. Tortosa , D. Ilić , S. Ciroi , M. Berton , E. Järvelä , C. Ricci , E. Sani , L. Crepaldi , B. Dalla Barba , S. Chen , E. Congiu , P. Condò , I. Varglund , G. Rodighiero

NGC 5033 is an intriguing Seyfert galaxy because its sub-classification may change with time, and because optical and sub-mm observations find that the massive black hole does not sit at the dynamical center of the galaxy, pointing to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 S. B. Yun , J. M. Miller , D. Barret , D. Stern , W. N. Brandt , L. Brenneman , P. Draghis , A. C. Fabian , J. Raymond , A. Zoghbi

We present a detailed multi-frequency analysis of an intense monitoring programme of Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 over a duration of nearly for a month with Swift observatory. We used 185 pointings to study the variability in six…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-17 Main Pal , Sachindra Naik

The physical mechanism for triggering the changing-look phenomenon in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still unclear. We explore this issue based on the multi-wavelength spectral and flux variations for a changing-look AGN Mrk~1018 with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Bing Lyu , Zhen Yan , Wenfei Yu , Qingwen Wu

A decade ago the archetypal Seyfert-1 galaxy NGC 5548 was discovered to have undergone major spectral changes. The soft X-ray flux had dropped by a factor of 30 while new broad and blueshifted UV absorption lines appeared. This was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Missagh Mehdipour , Gerard A. Kriss , Elisa Costantini , Liyi Gu , Jelle S. Kaastra , Hermine Landt , Junjie Mao

We report the results of a one year Swift X-ray/UV/optical programme monitoring the dwarf Seyfert nucleus in NGC 4395 in 2008-2009. The UV/optical flux from the nucleus was found to vary dramatically over the monitoring period, with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 D. T. Cameron , I. Mc Hardy , T. Dwelly , E. Breedt , P. Uttley , P. Lira , P. Arevalo

We discuss preliminary results from a joint XMM-Newton and NuSTAR monitoring program on the active galactic nucleus NGC 4593, consisting of 5x20 ks observations, spaced by two days, performed in January 2015. The source is found to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 F. Ursini , P. -O. Petrucci , G. Matt , S. Bianchi , M. Cappi , B. De Marco , A. De Rosa , J. Malzac , G. Ponti

We report the analysis of all Swift observations available up to 2019 April of $\gamma$-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLSy1). The distribution of X-ray luminosities (and fluxes) indicates that the jet radiation significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-07 Filippo D'Ammando

We report the transition to an active state of the nucleus in the Seyfert 1.9 galaxy NGC 2992, discovered by means of new hard X-ray data. While the 2-10 keV flux declined by a factor of ~ 20 from 1978 to 1994, two recent BeppoSAX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Gilli , R. Maiolino , A. Marconi , G. Risaliti , M. Dadina , K. A. Weaver , E. J. M. Colbert

We observed the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 985 on multiple occasions to search for variability in its UV and X-ray absorption features in order to establish their location and physical properties. We use XMM-Newton to obtain X-ray spectra using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 J. Ebrero , G. A. Kriss , J. S. Kaastra , J. C. Ely

We have observed four low-luminosity active galactic nuclei classified as Type 1 LINERs with the X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the UltraViolet-Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard Swift, in an attempt to clarify the main powering mechanism of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Elena Pian , Patrizia Romano , Dan Maoz , Antonino Cucchiara , Claudio Pagani , Valentina La Parola

We present a detailed timing and spectral study of an extremely variable narrow-line Seyfert~1 galaxy NGC 4748 using observations in the year 2017 and 2014 performed with AstroSat and XMM-Newton, respectively. Both observations show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Main Pal , Neeraj Kumari , Pankaj Kushwaha , K. P. Singh , Alok C. Gupta , Sachindra Naik , G. C. Dewangan , P. Tripathi , Rathin Adhikari , O. Adegoke , H. Nandan