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An empirical forward-modeling framework is developed to interpret the multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and provide insights into the overlap and incompleteness of samples selected at different parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Antonis Georgakakis , Angel Ruiz , Stephanie M. LaMassa

We present our statistical study of near infrared (NIR) variability of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the COSMOS field, using UltraVISTA data. This is the largest sample of AGN light curves in YJHKs bands, making possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 P. Sánchez , P. Lira , R. Cartier , V. Pérez , N. Miranda , C. Yovaniniz , P. Arévalo , B. Milvang-Jensen , J. Fynbo , J. Dunlop , P. Coppi , S. Marchesi

Surveys for transient and variable phenomena can be confounded by the presence of extrinsic variability such as refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS). We have developed an all-sky model for RISS which can predict variability on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-26 P. J. Hancock , E. G. Charlton , J-P. Macquart , N. Hurley-Walker

We examine archival XMM-Newton data on the extremely variable narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) active galactic nucleus (AGN) 1H 0707-495. We construct fractional excess variance (Fvar) spectra for each epoch, including the recent 2019…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 M. L. Parker , W. N. Alston , L. Härer , Z. Igo , A. Joyce , D. J. K. Buisson , P. Chainakun , A. C. Fabian , J. Jiang , P. Kosec , G. A. Matzeu , C. Pinto , Y. Xu , F. Zaidouni

We have calculated the relativistic reflection component of the X-ray spectra of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Our calculations have shown that the spectra can be significantly modified by the motion of the accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Khee-Gan Lee , Kinwah Wu , Steven V. Fuerst , Graziella Branduardi-Raymont , Oliver Crowley

X-ray observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) show variability on timescales ranging from a few hours up to a few days. Some of this variability may be associated with occultation events by clouds in the broad line region. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 E. S. Kammoun , F. Marin , M. Dovciak , E. Nardini , G. Risaliti , M. Sanfrutos

We present a detailed X-ray timing analysis of the highly variable NLS1 galaxy, IRAS 13224-3809. The source was recently monitored for 1.5 Ms with XMM-Newton which, combined with 500 ks archival data, makes this the best studied NLS1 galaxy…

We study the X-ray power spectrum of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) to investigate whether Seyfert I and II power spectra are similar or not, whether the AGN variability depends on black hole mass and accretion rate, and to compare the AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-08 I. E. Papadakis , V. Binas-Valavanis

Mrk 590 is a Changing Look AGN currently in an unusual repeat X-ray and UV flaring state. Here, we report on deep X-ray observations with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and NICER, obtained at a range of X-ray flux levels. We detect a prominent soft…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Daniel Lawther , Marianne Vestergaard , Sandra Raimundo , Xiaohui Fan , Jun Yi Koay

In this paper I investigate the $\gamma$-ray spectra of AGN by summing up the intensity and the power-law fit statistic of Quasars and OVV's and BL Lac's separately. The spectrum of the average AGN is softer than that of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

The observed variability of X-ray binaries over a wide range of time-scales can be understood in the framework of a stochastic propagation model, where viscous fluctuations at different radii induce accretion rate variability that propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-18 Naveel Ahmad , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal , Bari Maqbool , Mubashir Hamid

We present an analysis of the long-term X-ray variability of the extreme narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy IRAS 13224-3809 using principal component analysis (PCA) and fractional excess variability (Fvar) spectra to identify…

High velocity outflows from supermassive black holes have been invoked to explain the recent identification of strong absorption features in the hard X-ray spectra of several quasars. Here, Monte Carlo radiative transfer calculations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Sim

In the most recent IBIS survey based on observations performed during the first 1000 orbits of INTEGRAL, are listed 363 high energy emitters firmly associated with AGN, 107 of which are reported here for the first time. We have used X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 A. Malizia , R. Landi , M. Molina , L. Bassani , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , P. Ubertini

When an AGN is obscured, the warm reflecting gas nearby can be seen by a combination of bremsstrahlung, intrinsic line emission, and reflection of the nuclear continuum, both by electron scattering and by resonance line scattering.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Julian H. Krolik , Gerard A. Kriss

Here we present a new method for subtracting the Balmer pseudocontinuum in the UV part of type 1 AGN spectra. We calculate the intensity of the Balmer pseudocontinuum using the prominent Balmer lines in AGN spectra. We apply the model on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jelena Kovacevic , Luka C. Popovic , Wolfram Kollatschny

The X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is highly variable. Measurements of time lags (characterised by lag spectra) between variability in the light curves in energy bands corresponding to directly observed continuum emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 D. R. Wilkins , A. C. Fabian

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

X-ray variability provides a powerful probe of the innermost regions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), offering valuable insights into the accretion process and the structure of the corona. Previous studies have established a correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Ruisong Xia , Hao Liu , Yongquan Xue , Jialai Wang , Guowei Ren , Mouyuan Sun , Shifu Zhu , Mengqiu Huang , Qingwen Wu , Xian-Liang Lu , Zhen-Bo Su , Shuying Zhou

X-ray observations of the unique NLS1 galaxy Mrk 1239 spanning 18-years are presented. Data from XMM-Newton, Suzaku, Swift and NuSTAR are combined to obtain a broad-band, multi-epoch view of the source. There is spectral variability in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Margaret Z. Buhariwalla , Sophia G. H. Waddell , Luigi C. Gallo , Dirk Grupe , S. Komossa