X-ray/UV Swift monitoring of NGC 4151

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Swift monitoring of NGC 4151 with an ~6hr sampling over a total of 69days in early 2016 is used to construct light curves covering five bands in the X-rays (0.3-50keV) and six in the ultraviolet (UV)/optical (1900-5500{AA}). The three hardest X-ray bands (>2.5keV) are all strongly correlated with no measurable interband lag, while the two softer bands show lower variability and weaker correlations. The UV/optical bands are significantly correlated with the X-rays, lagging ~3-4days behind the hard X-rays. The variability within the UV/optical bands is also strongly correlated, with the UV appearing to lead the optical by ~0.5-1days. This combination of >~3day lags between the X-rays and UV and <~1day lags within the UV/optical appears to rule out the "lamp-post" reprocessing model in which a hot, X-ray emitting corona directly illuminates the accretion disk, which then reprocesses the energy in the UV/optical. Instead, these results appear consistent with the Gardner & Done (2017MNRAS.470.3591G) picture in which two separate reprocessings occur: first, emission from the corona illuminates an extreme-UV-emitting toroidal component that shields the disk from the corona; this then heats the extreme-UV component, which illuminates the disk and drives its variability.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18400041
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Provenance
Creator Edelson R.; Gelbord J.; Cackett E.; Connolly S.; Done C.; Fausnaugh M.,Gardner E.; Gehrels N.; Goad M.; Horne K.; McHardy I.; Peterson B.M.,Vaughan S.; Vestergaard M.; Breeveld A.; Barth A.J.; Bentz M.; Bottorff M.,Brandt W.N.; Crawford S.M.; Bonta E.D.; Emmanoulopoulos D.; Evans P.,Jaimes R.F.; Filippenko A.V.; Ferland G.; Grupe D.; Joner M.; Kennea J.,Korista K.T.; Krimm H.A.; Kriss G.; Leonard D.C.; Mathur S.; Netzer H.,Nousek J.; Page K.; Romero-Colmenero E.; Siegel M.; Starkey D.A.; Treu T.,Vogler H.A.; Winkler H.; Zheng W.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2018
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics