X-ray and lower energy variability in NGC 3516 and other AGN
Abstract
The launch of RXTE has made possible the first evenly-sampled, long-term X-ray monitoring of AGN, and the most important advances in our understanding of X-ray variability since EXOSAT. The most important studies to date have involved measuring the turnover in the X-ray fluctuation power density spectrum of NGC 3516 and the (lack of) correlation between X-ray and optical variations in NGC 7469. I will discuss the implications of these results along with future campaigns that could utilize Chandra or XMM to sample rapid variability while RXTE does long-term monitoring.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #194
- Pub Date:
- May 1999
- Bibcode:
- 1999AAS...194.3408E