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BASS-XL: X-ray variability properties of unobscured Active Galactic Nuclei
| العنوان: | BASS-XL: X-ray variability properties of unobscured Active Galactic Nuclei |
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| المؤلفون: | Tortosa, Alessia, Ricci, Claudio, Arévalo, Patricia, Koss, Michael J., Bauer, Franz E., Trakhtenbrot, Benny, Mushotzky, Richard, Temple, Matthew J., Ricci, Federica, Lilayu, Alejandra Rojas, Kawamuro, Taiki, Caglar, Turgay, Liu, Tingting, Harrison, Fiona, Oh, Kyuseok, Powell, Meredith Clark, Stern, Daniel, Urry, Claudia Megan |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| الوصف: | We investigate the X-ray variability properties of Seyfert1 Galaxies belonging to the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). The sample includes 151 unobscured (N$_{\rm H}<10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$) AGNs observed with XMM-Newton for a total exposure time of ~27 Ms, representing the deepest variability study done so far with high signal-to-noise XMM-Newton observations, almost doubling the number of observations analysed in previous works. We constrain the relation between the normalised excess variance and the 2-10 keV AGN luminosities, black hole masses and Eddington ratios. We find a highly significant correlation between $\sigma^{2}_{NXS}$ and $M_{\rm BH}$, with a scatter of ~0.85 dex. For sources with high $L_{2-10}$ this correlation has a lower normalization, confirming that more luminous (higher mass) AGNs show less variability. We explored the $\sigma^{2}_{NXS}$ vs $M_{\rm BH}$ relation for the sub-sample of sources with $M_{\rm BH}$ estimated via the "reverberation mapping" technique, finding a tighter anti-correlation, with a scatter of ~ 0.65 dex. We examine how the $\sigma^{2}_{NXS}$ changes with energy by studying the relation between the variability in the hard (3-10 keV) and the soft (0.2-1 keV)/medium (1-3 keV) energy bands, finding that the spectral components dominating the hard energy band are more variable than the spectral components dominating in softer energy bands, on timescales shorter than 10 ks. Comment: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 526, Issue 2, pp.1687-1698 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stad2775 |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03280 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2309.03280 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stad2775 |
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