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X-rays illuminating the accretion disc in active galactic nuclei give rise to an iron K line and its associated reflection spectrum which are lagged behind the continuum variability by the light-travel time from the source to the disc. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Misaki Mizumoto , Chris Done , Kouichi Hagino , Ken Ebisawa , Masahiro Tsujimoto , Hirokazu Odaka

In 3C 273, ultraviolet flux and X-ray flux measured by BATSE are not well correlated, contrarily to predictions of several models, unless the X-ray flux lags the UV emission by 1.75 yr. The absence of observed correlation at small lag…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Paltani , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , M. Turler , R. Walter

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

We present the results from an X-ray variability study of IRAS 13224-3809. This is probably the best source for X-ray reverberation studies since it is X-ray bright, extremely variable, and it has been extensively observed with XMM-Newton.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 M. D. Caballero-Garcia , I. E. Papadakis , M. Dovciak , M. Bursa , J. Svoboda , V. Karas

We analyze 168 Swift monitoring observations of the nearest broad absorption line quasar Mrk 231 in the UV and X-ray bands, where we detect significant variability in the UV ($\sim$2246\AA) light curve with a null probability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Lilan Yang , Xinyu Dai , Youjun Lu , Zong-Hong Zhu , Francesco Shankar

We present the first results from a detailed spectral-timing analysis of a long ($\sim$130 ks) XMM-Newton observation and quasi-simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift observations of the highly-accreting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 1044. The…

We present calculations of the time lags and the coherence function of X-ray photons for a novel model of radiation emission from accretion powered, high-energy sources. Our model involves only Comptonization of soft photons injected near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Xin-Min Hua , Demosthenes Kazanas , Lev Titarchuk

We present a detailed spectral study of the narrow-line Seyfert~1 galaxy, Markarian~335, using eight epoch observations made between 2013 and 2020 with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. The source was variable during this period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-01 Santanu Mondal , C. S. Stalin

This paper combines data from the three preceding papers in order to analyze the multi-waveband variability and spectral energy distribution of the Seyfert~1 galaxy NGC~4151 during the December 1993 monitoring campaign. The source, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. A. Edelson et al

We have analyzed XMM-Newton observations of the high energy peaked blazar, PKS 2155-304, made on 24 May 2002 in the 0.3 - 10 keV X-ray band. These observations display a mini-flare, a nearly constant flux period and a strong flux increase.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-04 Jai Bhagwana , A. C. Gupta , I. E. Papadakis , Paul J. Wiita

The black-hole binary LMC X-3 is known to be variable on time scales of days to years. We investigate X-ray and ultraviolet variability in the system as a function of the 1.7 day binary phase using a 6.4 day observation with the Rossi X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Patricia T. Boyd , Alan P. Smale , Joseph F. Dolan

We present five simultaneous UV/X-ray observations of IC4329A by AstroSat, performed over {a five-month} period. We utilize the excellent spatial resolution of the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard AstroSat to reliably separate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 Prakash Tripathi , Gulab Chand Dewangan , I. E. Papadakis , K. P. Singh

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

We present an analysis of the X-ray time lags for the highly variable Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051, based on a series of XMM-Newton observations taken in 2009. We investigate the Fourier frequency dependent time lags in the light curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-26 W. N. Alston , S. Vaughan , P. Uttley

We report the discovery of time lags in the cross-spectra of the X-ray light curves of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 7469. This behavior is common in Galactic black hole and neutron star binaries, and is in the sense that harder X-rays are delayed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 I. E. Papadakis , K. Nandra , D. Kazanas

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) light curves observed with different wavebands show that the variability in longer wavelength bands lags the variability in shorter wavelength bands. Measuring these lags, or reverberation mapping, is used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Amy Secunda , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jenny E. Greene

AG Draconis produces a strong supersoft X-ray emission.The X-ray and optical/UV fluxes are in a strict anticorrelation throughout the active and quiescent phases. The aim of this contribution is to identify the source of the X-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Skopal , M. Sekeras , R. Gonzalez-Riestra , R. F. Viotti

The bright, strongly variable BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 was observed by XMM for two essentially uninterrupted periods of ~11 and 16 hr on 30-31 May 2000. The strongest variations occurred in the highest energy bands. After scaling for this…

This paper presents preliminary results of a systematic study on the X-ray spectral variability of PG quasars with XMM-Newton. We concentrate on those objects, whose X-ray spectra are well fit in the framework of the ``double…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Guainazzi , E. Jimenez-Bailon , E. Piconcelli

We explore the origin of the strong soft X-ray excess in Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies using spectral-timing information from a 120ks {\it XMM-Newton} observation of PG 1244+026. Spectral fitting alone cannot distinguish between a true…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Chichuan Jin , Chris Done , Matthew Middleton , Martin Ward