Continuum Reverberation Mapping of AGN Accretion Disks

Continuum Reverberation Mapping of AGN Accretion Disks

We show recent detections of inter-band continuum lags in three AGN (NGC 5548, NGC 2617, and MCG+08-11-011), which provide new constraints on the temperature profiles and absolute sizes of the accretion disks. We find lags larger than would be predicted for standard geometrically thin, optically thi...

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Main Authors: Michael M. Fausnaugh, Bradley M. Peterson, David A. Starkey, Keith Horne, the AGN STORM Collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Subjects:
AGN continuum
galaxies: active
individual: NGC5548
NGC2617
MCG+08-11-011
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fspas.2017.00055/full

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