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We present results from a joint Xmm-Newton/NuSTAR monitoring of the Seyfert 1 NGC 4593, consisting of 5x20 ks simultaneous observations spaced by two days, performed in January 2015. The source is variable, both in flux and spectral shape,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 F. Ursini , P. -O. Petrucci , G. Matt , S. Bianchi , M. Cappi , B. De Marco , A. De Rosa , J. Malzac , A. Marinucci , G. Ponti , A. Tortosa

We present the first X-ray monitoring observations of the X-ray bright FRI radio galaxy NGC6251 observed with RXTE for 1 year. The primary goal of this study is to shed light on the origin of the X-rays, by investigating the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gliozzi , I. E. Papadakis , R. M. Sambruna

We present the results of the long-term (20-year period, from 1996 to 2015) optical spectral monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469. The variation in the light-curves of the broad He II {\lambda}4686A H{\beta} and H{\alpha} lines, and…

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…

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The X-ray spectra of luminous Seyfert 1 galaxies often appear to be reflection dominated. In a number of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies and galactic black holes in the very high state, the variability of the continuum and of the iron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Julien Malzac , Andrea Merloni , Thitiwat Suebsuwong

Variability is a general property of active galactic nuclei (AGN). At X-rays, the way in which these changes occur is not yet clear. In the particular case of low ionisation nuclear emission line region (LINER) nuclei, variations on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-17 L. Hernández-García , O. González-Martín , J. Masegosa , I. Márquez

We present an analysis of spectrum and variability of the bright reddened narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy Was~61 using 90 ks archival {\it XMM-Newton} data. The X-ray spectrum in 0.2-10 keV can be characterized by an absorbed power-law plus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-11 Liming Dou , Ting-Gui Wang , Yanli Ai , Weimin Yuan , Hongyan Zhou , Xiao-Bo Dong

Recent results on the X-ray spectrum and variability of Seyfert 1 galaxies are reviewed. New spectral results from BeppoSAX observations are also presented and briefly discussed.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Giorgio Matt

We present the variability analysis of a 100 ks XMM-Newton observation of the Seyfert 1.5 active galaxy NGC 3227. The observation found NGC 3227 in a period where its hard power-law component displayed remarkably little long-term…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Arévalo , A. Markowitz

Many AGN exhibit a highly variable luminosity. Some AGN also show a pronounced time delay between variations seen in their optical continuum and in their emission lines. In effect, the emission lines are light echoes of the continuum. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. F. Welsh

We use X-ray monitoring data obtained over a broad range of time-scales to measure the broadband power spectral density functions (PSDs) of two Seyfert galaxies, the broad line Seyfert 1 NGC 3227 and the Seyfert 2 NGC 5506, which has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Uttley , I. M. McHardy

We discuss the origin of the optical variations in the Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 and present the results of a cross-correlation study using X-ray and optical light curves spanning more than 12 years. The emission is highly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Breedt , I. M. McHardy , P. Arevalo , P. Uttley , S. G. Sergeev , T. Minezaki , Y. Yoshii , Y. Sakata , P. Lira , N. G. Chesnok

We discuss recent results on the Seyfert spectral variability. Their observed high energy variability is generally consistent with X-ray spectral slop fluctuations produced by change of the soft photon luminosity in the sense that spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. O. Petrucci

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit complex variability across multiple wavelengths, reflecting diverse physical processes near their central engines. This work investigates the temporal variability of four AGNs Mrk~509, NGC~5548,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 R. A. A. Souza , E. Hatziminaoglou , A. de Pádua Santos , T. Stosic

We analyze the long-term lightcurve of 3C 454.3 observed with Fermi/LAT and investigate its relation to the flux in the radio, optical, and X-ray bands. By fitting the 1-day binned GeV lightcurve with multiple Gaussian function (MGF), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Hai-Ming Zhang , Jin Zhang , Rui-Jing Lu , Ting-Feng Yi , Xiao-Li Huang , En-Wei Liang

We discuss a model of the central source in Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. The model assumes a three phase disk structure consisting of a cold outer disk, a hot central disk constituting a Comptonizing X/gamma source, and an intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Magdziarz , O. Blaes

We present an analysis of a sample of Seyfert 1 galaxies observed with Suzaku. The aim of this work is to examine critically the evidence for a relativistic Fe K alpha line in the X-ray spectra of these AGN. The sample was compiled from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Giulia Mantovani , Kirpal Nandra , Gabriele Ponti

We present an analysis of the co-added and individual 0.7-40 keV spectra from seven Suzaku observations of the Sy 1.5 galaxy NGC 5548 taken over a period of eight weeks. We conclude that the source has a moderately ionized, three-zone warm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Brenneman , Martin Elvis , Yair Krongold , Yuan Liu , Smita Mathur

Some progress in understanding AGN variability is reviewed. Reprocessing of X-ray radiation to produce significant amounts of longer-wavelength continua seems to be ruled out. In some objects where there has been correlated X-ray and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-27 C. Martin Gaskell , Elizabeth S. Klimek

We studied the six gamma-ray-detected Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies using the hard X-ray observations from Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and optical g- \& r-band from Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). The X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Suvas Chandra Chaudhary , Raj Prince , Brian van Soelen , Pieter Meintjes