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    X-ray variability analysis of a large series of XMM–Newton +NuSTAR observations of NGC 3227

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    Author/Creator
    Lobban, A. P.
    Turner, T. J.
    Reeves, J. N.
    Braito, V.
    Miller, L.
    Date
    2020-04-16
    Type of Work
    19 pages
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    Lobban, A. P.; Turner, T. J.; Reeves, J. N.; Braito, V.; Miller, L.; X-ray variability analysis of a large series of XMM–Newton +NuSTAR observations of NGC 3227; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 494, Issue 4, June 2020, Pages 5056–5074; https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/494/4/5056/5820815?
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    This article is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2020 The Author(s), Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
    Abstract
    We present a series of X-ray variability results from a long XMM–Newton + NuSTAR campaign on the bright, variable AGN NGC 3227. We present an analysis of the light curves, showing that the source displays typically softer-when-brighter behaviour, although also undergoes significant spectral hardening during one observation which we interpret as due to an occultation event by a cloud of absorbing gas. We spectrally decompose the data and show that the bulk of the variability is continuum-driven and, through rms variability analysis, strongly enhanced in the soft band. We show that the source largely conforms to linear rms-flux behaviour and we compute X-ray power spectra, detecting moderate evidence for a bend in the power spectrum, consistent with existing scaling relations. Additionally, we compute X-ray Fourier time lags using both the XMM–Newton and – through maximum-likelihood methods – NuSTAR data, revealing a strong low-frequency hard lag and evidence for a soft lag at higher frequencies, which we discuss in terms of reverberation models.


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    Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
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