Ultrasoft transient X-ray emission from AGN

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dc.creatorMannheim, K.
dc.creatorGrupe, D.
dc.creatorBeuermann, K.
dc.creatorThomas, H. -C.
dc.creatorFink, H. H.
dc.date1995-12-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:20:34Z
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dc.descriptionWe report some remarkable and unexpected results of optical/UV/X-ray follow-up observations of bright soft X-ray selected AGN from the ROSAT All-Sky-Survey. The majority of these AGN are rather anonymous Seyfert galaxies, mostly of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 subtype (nlSy1). We confirm the well-known X-ray variability by factors of a few. However, we also found strikingly different variability patterns: (i) a drop in the PSPC count rate by a factor of ~400 in WPVS007, (ii) a bolometrically dominant soft X-ray component decreasing in flux by a factor ~100 in IC 3599 accompanied by a decrease in optical emission line fluxes, and (iii) a drastic X-ray spectral change in RX J0134-42 from ultrasoft to a typical hard Seyfert spectrum. These dramatic variations occur within a (few) year(s), implying that the accretion flow in the immediate vicinity of the central black hole must have undergone a major change. We discuss possible physical explanations such as accretion disk instabilities or the tidal disruption of stars.
dc.description2 pages, postscript, to appear in Proc. of "Roentgenstrahlung from the Universe", 25-29 Sep 1995, Wuerburg, Germany
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9512045
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9512045
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10248
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleUltrasoft transient X-ray emission from AGN
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