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Over the last few years X-ray observations of broad-line radio galaxies (BLRGs) by ASCA, RXTE and BeppoSAX have shown that these objects seem to exhibit weaker X-ray reflection features (such as the iron K\alpha line) than radio-quiet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Ballantyne , R. R. Ross , A. C. Fabian

NGC 5548 has been intensively monitored by the AGN Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping collaboration. Approximately after half of the light curves, the correlation between the broad emission lines and the lag-corrected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Mouyuan Sun , Yongquan Xue , Zhenyi Cai , Hengxiao Guo

A warm corona at the surface of an accretion disc has been proposed as a potential location for producing the soft excess commonly observed in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In order to fit the observed data the gas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 D. R. Ballantyne

Using a sample of 228 optically selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) in the 0.01-6.3 redshift range with a high fraction of X-ray detections (81-86%), we study the relation between rest-frame UV and soft X-ray emission and its evolution…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) unification, which implies a large number of obscured AGN, can explain the optical, infrared and X-ray content of deep multiwavelength surveys. Here, we show that the same model also successfully explains the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ezequiel Treister , C. M. Urry

IPCVs contain a magnetic, rotating white dwarf surrounded by a magnetically truncated accretion disk. To explain their strong flickering X-ray emission, accretion has been successfully taken into account. Nevertheless, observations suggest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Enrico Barbera , Salvatore Orlando , Giovanni Peres

In this paper, we present an updated version of our model (KYNXiltr) which considers thermal reverberation of a standard Novikov-Thorne accretion disc illuminated by an X-ray point-like source. Previously, the model considered only two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 E. S. Kammoun , L. Robin , I. E. Papadakis , M. Dovčiak , C. Panagiotou

In this paper we consider the process of alignment of a spinning black hole and a surrounding misaligned accretion disc. We use a simplified set of equations, that describe the evolution of the system in the case where the propagation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Lodato , J. E. Pringle

We propose a model of the accretion flow onto a black hole consisting of the accretion disk with an accreting two-temperature corona. The model is based on assumptions about the radiative and conductive energy exchange between the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Czerny , A. Rozanska , A. Janiuk , P. T. Zycki

We investigate the nature of the inner accretion disk in the neutron star source GX 5-1 by making a detailed study of time lags between X-rays of different energies. Using the cross-correlation analysis, we found anti-correlated hard and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 K. Sriram , C. S. Choi , A. R. Rao

Radiation-pressure instability was identified soon after the seminal classical accretion disk models of Shakura-Sunyaev and Novikov-Thorne, yet its full implications remain an active area of investigation. These models form the backbone of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Pulkit Ojha , Yuri Cavecchi , Federico Vincentelli

The structure of the accretion flow onto supermassive black holes (SMBH) is not well understood. Standard disc models match to zeroth order in predicting substantial energy dissipation within optically-thick material producing a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Scott Hagen , Chris Done , John D. Silverman , Junyao Li , Teng Liu , Wenke Ren , Johannes Buchner , Andrea Merloni , Tohru Nagao , Mara Salvato

To gain a better understanding of the inner disc region that comprises active galactic nuclei it is necessary to understand the pattern in which the disc is illuminated (the emissivity profile) by X-rays emitted from the continuum source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 A. G. Gonzalez , D. R. Wilkins , L. C. Gallo

The physical origin of optical changing-look AGNs (CLAGNs), characterized by the appearance or disappearance of broad emission lines, is thought to be mainly driven by the variation of the black-hole (BH) accretion rate. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Pengyuan Han , Huaiyuan Lu , Bing Lyu , Jiancheng Wu , Qingwen Wu

The primary X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) originates in a compact region called the corona located very close to the super-massive black hole and the accretion disk. The knowledge of the cut-off energy ($E_{cut}$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Priyanka Rani , C. S. Stalin , K. D. Goswami

The supermassive black holes ($M_{\rm BH} \sim 10^{6}$$-$$10^{10}~M_\odot$) that power luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs), i.e., quasars, generally show a correlation between thermal disk emission in the ultraviolet (UV) and coronal…

The origin of core radio emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still actively debated. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations often predict the launching of moderately large-scale jets from super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Jeremiah D. Paul , Richard M. Plotkin

It is widely known that in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs), there is a tight correlation among their radio luminosity ($L_R$), X-ray luminosity ($L_X$) and BH mass ($\mbh$), the so-called `fundamental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Lei Qian , Xiao-Bo Dong , Fu-Guo Xie , Wenjuan Liu , Di Li

The geometry of the accretion flow around stellar mass and supermassive black holes depends on the accretion rate. Broad iron emission lines originating from the irradiation of cool matter can indicate that there is an inner disk below a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Meyer-Hofmeister , B. F. Liu , F. Meyer

Recent progress in observations and understanding of spectra of Seyfert Galaxies shows that X-rays are most likely produced by magnetic flares on the surface of the disk, similar to Solar X-ray emission. However, while the model reproduces…

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