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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

We present a 35 day ASCA observation of the NLS1 Akn 564, which was part of a multiwavelength AGN Watch monitoring campaign. Akn 564 shows a photon index varying across the range 2.45--2.72. The presence of the soft hump component below 1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. J. Turner , P. Romano , I. M. George , R. Edelson , S. J. Collier , S. Mathur , B. M. Peterson

The unprecedented sensitivity of current X-ray telescopes allows for the first time to address the issue of the Fe K line complex variability patterns in bright, nearby AGNs. We examine XMM-Newton observations of the brightest sources of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 B. De Marco , K. Iwasawa , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , F. Tombesi , G. Ponti , A. Celotti , G. Miniutti

We analyse 15 XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051 obtained over 45 days to determine the ultraviolet (UV) light curve variability characteristics and search for correlated UV/X-ray emission. The UV light curve shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 W. N. Alston , S. Vaughan , P. Uttley

We present a flux variability study of simultaneous RXTE and EUVE observations of the highly variable Seyfert galaxy NGC4051. We find a strong correlation between variability in the EUV and medium energy X-ray bands,indicating that both are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Uttley , I. M. McHardy , I. E. Papadakis , I. Cagnoni , A. Fruscione

We report on a study of the narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line and reflection spectrum in the well-known Seyfert-2 AGN, NGC 4388. X-ray spectra summed from two extensive NICER monitoring campaigns, separated by years, show strong evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 B. Gediman , J. M. Miller , A. Zoghbi , P. Draghis , Z. Arzoumanian , W. N . Brandt , K. Gendreau

We study the low-contrast Fe II emission blends in the ultraviolet (1250--2200A) and optical (4000--6000A) spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 and show that these features vary in flux and that these variations are correlated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Vestergaard , B. M. Peterson

We observed the Galactic black hole Cygnus X-1 with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer for 30 kiloseconds on 4 January, 2001. The source was in an intermediate state, with a flux that was approximately twice that…

We present the first in a series of papers describing the X-ray properties of a sample of 18 Seyfert 1 galaxies, using data obtained by \asca. The imaging data reveal a number of serendipitous hard X-ray sources in some source fields, but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Nandra , I. M. George , R. F. Mushotzky , T. J. Turner , T. Yaqoob

Chandra and XMM observations are showing that the Fe-K emission lines in type 1 AGN are composite, in general consisting of a narrow and a broad component. We review the latest Chandra HETG results and compare the line profiles with those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Yaqoob , U. Padmanabhan , T. Dotani , I. M. George , T. J. Turner , K. Nandra

This paper employs direct spectral fitting of individual orbital data in order to measure rapid X-ray iron K_alpha line and continuum spectral slope variations in Seyfert 1 galaxies with unprecedented temporal resolution. Application of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Vaughan , Rick Edelson

We present the second XMM-Newton observation (85 ks) of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy (NLS1) I Zw 1 and describe its mean spectral and timing characteristics. On average, I Zw 1 is ~35 per cent dimmer in 2005 than in the shorter (20 ks)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. C. Gallo , W. N. Brandt , E. Costantini , A. C. Fabian , K. Iwasawa , I. E. Papadakis

We present the long term, frequency-dependent, X-ray time lags of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4051. We used Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer light curves in the 2-4, 4-7 and 7-10 keV bands and we measured the time-lags at $10^{-7}-10^{-6}$ Hz. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 I. E. Papadakis , A. Rigas , A. Markowitz , I. M. McHardy

We present the analysis of an XMM observation of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2992. The source was found in its highest level of X-ray activity yet detected, a factor $\sim 23.5$ higher in 2--10 keV flux than the historical minimum. NGC 2992 is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 X. W. Shu , T. Yaqoob , K. D. Murphy , V. Braito , J. X. Wang , W. Zheng

An extended component of X-ray emission has been detected in Seyfert galaxies - NGC 1365 and NGC 4051, using the ROSAT HRI. Its size is about 2 kpc and it contains 56% +- 8% of the total observed flux in NGC 1365, and 21% +- 6% in NGC 4051.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Kulinder Pal Singh

We present intensive quasi-simultaneous X-ray and radio monitoring of the narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051, over a 16 month period in 2000-2001. Observations were made with the Rossi Timing X-ray Explorer (RXTE) and the Very Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Sadie Jones , Ian McHardy , Derek Moss , Nick Seymour , Elme Breedt , Phil Uttley , Elmar Kording , Valeriu Tudose

We report on the detection of a rapidly variable narrow Fe K$\alpha$ line in Mkn 841. The source has been observed two times by XMM-Newton and simultaneously with BeppoSAX. The two observations, of about 10ks long each, were separated by…

The Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 was observed in one of its prolonged low-lux states by XMM-Newton in November 2002. Here we present the results of an analysis of EPIC-pn data obtained during the observation. Within the low state,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Uttley , R. D. Taylor , I. M. McHardy , M. J. Page , K. O. Mason , G. Lamer , A. Fruscione

Long-exposure Suzaku X-ray observations of the active galaxy NGC 4051 from 2005 and 2008 are analysed, in an attempt to reach a self-consistent understanding of the spectral variability on long timescales and at high time resolution.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Miller , T. J. Turner , J. N. Reeves , A. Lobban , S. B. Kraemer , D. M. Crenshaw

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