Constraints on a soft X-ray excess in the quasar 3C 279

Details Constraints on a soft X-ray excess in the quasar 3C 279 Constraints on a soft X-ray excess in the quasar 3C 279

1998-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9809308v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Style files needed: epsf, mn.sty and new_cite.sty (this last is include

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We present the results of a three-week daily monitoring campaign on the quasar 3C 279 by the X-ray satellites RXTE and ROSAT. A cross correlation provides no evidence for any time lag between the very similar soft and hard X-ray light curves, and the source shows no significant spectral variability over the observing period. There is no evidence to support the presence of a soft excess, with a 99 per cent upper limit on any such component of 25 per cent of the total observed luminosity in the 0.1-2 keV band (< 3 x 10^38 W). This fraction (but not the luminosity) is significantly less than that of the soft excess observed in 3C 273.

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