X-ray variability of 104 active galactic nuclei: XMM-Newton power-spectrum density profiles

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 544, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gonzalez Martin O ^a,b,c   Vaughan, S ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion disks; Galaxies: active; Galaxy: nucleus; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION , ACCRETION DISKS; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BLACK HOLE MASS; BLACK HOLES; DENSITY PROFILE; GALAXIES : ACTIVE; GALAXY: NUCLEUS; HIGH FREQUENCY; POWER LAW MODEL; POWER SPECTRUM DENSITY; POWER-LAW; POWER-SPECTRA; QUASIPERIODIC OSCILLATIONS; SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES; TEMPORAL FREQUENCY; TEMPORAL PROPERTY; TIME-SCALES; VARIABILITY TIMESCALE; X RAY BINARIES; X-RAY VARIABILITY; X-RAYS: GALAXIES; XMM-NEWTON;

GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); LUMINANCE; POWER SPECTRUM; STARS;

X RAYS;

EID: 84864775090     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219008     Document Type: Article

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