X-ray/UV Swift monitoring of NGC 4151 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Edelson R.
  2. Gelbord J.
  3. Cackett E.
  4. Connolly S.
  5. Done C.
  6. Fausnaugh M.,Gardner E.
  7. Gehrels N.
  8. Goad M.
  9. Horne K.
  10. McHardy I.
  11. Peterson B.M.,Vaughan S.
  12. Vestergaard M.
  13. Breeveld A.
  14. Barth A.J.
  15. Bentz M.
  16. Bottorff M.,Brandt W.N.
  17. Crawford S.M.
  18. Bonta E.D.
  19. Emmanoulopoulos D.
  20. Evans P.,Jaimes R.F.
  21. Filippenko A.V.
  22. Ferland G.
  23. Grupe D.
  24. Joner M.
  25. Kennea J.,Korista K.T.
  26. Krimm H.A.
  27. Kriss G.
  28. Leonard D.C.
  29. Mathur S.
  30. Netzer H.,Nousek J.
  31. Page K.
  32. Romero-Colmenero E.
  33. Siegel M.
  34. Starkey D.A.
  35. Treu T.,Vogler H.A.
  36. Winkler H.
  37. Zheng W.
  38. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Swift monitoring of NGC 4151 with an ~6hr sampling over a total of 69days in early 2016 is used to construct light curves covering five bands in the X-rays (0.3-50keV) and six in the ultraviolet (UV)/optical (1900-5500{AA}). The three hardest X-ray bands (>2.5keV) are all strongly correlated with no measurable interband lag, while the two softer bands show lower variability and weaker correlations. The UV/optical bands are significantly correlated with the X-rays, lagging ~3-4days behind the hard X-rays. The variability within the UV/optical bands is also strongly correlated, with the UV appearing to lead the optical by ~0.5-1days. This combination of >~3day lags between the X-rays and UV and <~1day lags within the UV/optical appears to rule out the "lamp-post" reprocessing model in which a hot, X-ray emitting corona directly illuminates the accretion disk, which then reprocesses the energy in the UV/optical. Instead, these results appear consistent with the Gardner & Done (2017MNRAS.470.3591G) picture in which two separate reprocessings occur: first, emission from the corona illuminates an extreme-UV-emitting toroidal component that shields the disk from the corona; this then heats the extreme-UV component, which illuminates the disk and drives its variability.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. Wide-band photometry
  4. ultraviolet-photometry
  5. x-ray-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017ApJ...840...41E
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IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/840/41
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18400041

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History

2018-01-19T13:23:18Z
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2018-01-19T13:23:18Z
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2018-03-12T09:27:02Z
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