Light curves of 2 Seyfert 1 galaxies

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We present optical continuum lags for two Seyfert 1 galaxies, MCG+08-11-011 and NGC 2617, using monitoring data from a reverberation mapping campaign carried out in 2014. Our light curves span the ugriz filters over four months, with median cadences of 1.0 and 0.6 days for MCG+08-11-011 and NGC 2617, respectively, combined with roughly daily X-ray and near-UV data from Swift for NGC 2617. We find lags consistent with geometrically thin accretion-disk models that predict a lag-wavelength relation of {tau}{propto}{lambda}^4/3^. However, the observed lags are larger than predictions based on standard thin-disk theory by factors of 3.3 for MCG+08-11-011 and 2.3 for NGC 2617. These differences can be explained if the mass accretion rates are larger than inferred from the optical luminosity by a factor of 4.3 in MCG+08-11-011 and a factor of 1.3 in NGC 2617, although uncertainty in the SMBH masses determines the significance of this result. While the X-ray variability in NGC 2617 precedes the UV/optical variability, the long (2.6 day) lag is problematic for coronal reprocessing models.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18540107
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Creator Fausnaugh M.M.; Starkey D.A.; Horne K.; Kochanek C.S.; Peterson B.M.,Bentz M.C.; Denney K.D.; Grier C.J.; Grupe D.; Pogge R.W.; De Rosa G.,Adams S.M.; Barth A.J.; Beatty T.G.; Bhattacharjee A.; Borman G.A.,Boroson T.A.; Bottorff M.C.; Brown J.E.; Brown J.S.; Brotherton M.S.,Coker C.T.; Crawford S.M.; Croxall K.V.; Eftekharzadeh S.; Eracleous M.,Joner M.D.; Henderson C.B.; Holoien T.W.-S.; Hutchison T.; Kaspi S.; Kim S.,King A.L.; Li M.; Lochhaas C.; Ma Z.; MacInnis F.; Manne-Nicholas E.R.,Mason M.; Montuori C.; Mosquera A.; Mudd D.; Musso R.; Nazarov S.V.,Nguyen M.L.; Okhmat D.N.; Onken C.A.; Ou-Yang B.; Pancoast A.; Pei L.,Penny M.T.; Poleski R.; Rafter S.; Romero-Colmenero E.; Runnoe J.,Sand D.J.; Schimoia J.S.; Sergeev S.G.; Shappee B.J.; Simonian G.V.,Somers G.; Spencer M.; Stevens D.J.; Tayar J.; Treu T.; Valenti S.; VanSaders J.; Villanueva S.; Villforth C.; Weiss Y.; Winkler H.; Zhu 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