J/ApJ/788/48ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/788/48doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17880048CDSShappee B.J.Prieto J.L.Grupe D.Kochanek C.S.Stanek K.Z.,De Rosa G.Mathur S.Zu Y.Peterson B.M.Pogge R.W.Komossa S.Im M.,Jencson J.Holoien T.W-S.Basu U.Beacom J.F.Szczygiel D.M.,Brimacombe J.Adams S.Campillay A.Choi C.Contreras C.Dietrich M.,Dubberley M.Elphick M.Foale S.Giustini M.Gonzalez C.Hawkins E.,Howell D.A.Hsiao E.Y.Koss M.Leighly K.M.Morrell N.Mudd D.,Mullins D.Nugent J.M.Parrent J.Phillips M.M.Pojmanski G.,Rosing W.Ross R.Sand D.Terndrup D.M.Valenti S.Walker Z.Yoon Y.2017-09-04T08:04:10Z2017-07-11T06:38:17ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.fractive-galactic-nucleiseyfert-galaxiesx-ray-sourcesinfrared-photometryvisible-astronomybroad-band-photometrysloan-photometryAfter the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae discovered a significant brightening of the inner region of NGC 2617, we began a ~70 day photometric and spectroscopic monitoring campaign from the X-ray through near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths. We report that NGC 2617 went through a dramatic outburst, during which its X-ray flux increased by over an order of magnitude followed by an increase of its optical/ultraviolet (UV) continuum flux by almost an order of magnitude. NGC 2617, classified as a Seyfert 1.8 galaxy in 2003, is now a Seyfert 1 due to the appearance of broad optical emission lines and a continuum blue bump. Such "changing look active galactic nuclei (AGNs)" are rare and provide us with important insights about AGN physics. Based on the H{beta} line width and the radius-luminosity relation, we estimate the mass of central black hole (BH) to be (4+/-1)x10^7^ M_{sun}_. When we cross-correlate the light curves, we find that the disk emission lags the X-rays, with the lag becoming longer as we move from the UV (2-3 days) to the NIR (6-9 days). Also, the NIR is more heavily temporally smoothed than the UV. This can largely be explained by a simple model of a thermally emitting thin disk around a BH of the estimated mass that is illuminated by the observed, variable X-ray fluxes.2014ApJ...788...48Shttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/788/48CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic servicerelated-toVII/173 : Catalogue of Seyfert Galaxies (Lipovetsky+, 1988)II/339 : Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalog (Yershov, 2015)J/ApJ/705/14 : Seyfert galaxies in the mid-IR (Deo+, 2009)J/ApJ/713/L11 : X-ray properties of Seyfert 1 galaxies (Zhou+, 2010)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/788/48https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/788/48http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/788/48https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/788/48https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/788/48http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/788/48GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapX-rayInfraredOpticaldefaultJ/ApJ/788/48/table1Photometric ObservationsBandObservational bandinstr.bandpasscharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintJDJulian Date of the observation (JD-2450000)dtime.epochdoublemag? Observed magnitude (1)magphot.magfloatnullablee_mag? Uncertainty in magmagstat.error;phot.magfloatnullableFX? X-ray flux (2)1e-14W.m**-2phot.flux;em.X-rayfloatnullablee_FX? Uncertainty in FX1e-14W.m**-2stat.errorfloatnullableGamma? Photon Index; X-ray data onlymeta.code;spect.indexfloatnullablee_Gamma? Uncertainty in Gammastat.errorfloatnullable