Constraining the only significant AGN QPO

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Oct 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009xmm..prop..177m&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #06553101

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Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, Bl-Lac Objects, X-Ray Background, Re J1034+396

Scientific paper

Black hole binaries show high frequency QPOs. These are not well understood but their short timescales imply they must be produced close to the event horizon. Our recent discovery of the first significant AGN QPO gives a unique opportunity to study these in much more detail than is possible in BHB from the `slowed down' AGN QPO lightcurve. A single re-observation of the QPO would show that this is indeed a characteristic feature of this super-Eddington source, but the QPO is transient, not present in a followup snapshot. We propose 7 snapshots of 50ks each (the maximum possible in this AO and the minimum required for a 3 sigma detection) to re-detect the QPO and study its properties.

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