Exceptional behaviour of X-ray emitting corona in a Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419 - 577

We report on six XMM-Newton observations of a Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0419-577 during spectacular behaviour of the corona about on 2-3 months time scale. The source reflects similar trend in each energy band from Optical/UV to X-rays during 2002-2003. The Optical/UV emission varies from trough to peak by 4.2-22.1% and peak to trough by 6.6-10.3%. At the same time, the 2 - 10keV powerlaw emission is strongly correlated with soft X-ray excess with similar fractional variability amplitude ∼ 40% suggesting variation in coronal geometry. We also found that the height of X-ray source remains almost similar about 2rg (gravitaional radius) for each observation. This indicates clearly that source size is changing dramatically. Further, the powerlaw emission and Optical/UV emission seem correlated to each other. The observed variation in Optical/UV emission further support the variable size of corona. During incraesing trend of Optical/UV to X-rays, the X-ray source expands horizontally and while decreasing the X-ray source seems to shrink. This is supported by the observed more variation in Optical emission compared to UV emission while decreasing in flux from peak to trough.