Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-01-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 figures (uses newpasp.sty included). To appear in Proc. of "X-ray astronomy 2000",(Palermo Sep. 2000), Eds. R. Giac
Scientific paper
We report on some results from a three-year program of RXTE observations of 4 Seyfert galaxies: NGC 4051, NGC 5548, MCG-6-30-15 and NGC 5506. We focus here on color-color and color-flux diagrams obtained using the count-rates of the PCA instrument in different energy ranges: 3--5, 5--7 and 7--10 keV. The data of the different sources show interesting trends in the different color-color and color-flux planes. These trends are quite similar from one source to the other, even in the case of the narrow line Seyfert 1 NGC 4051 which exhibits strong flux and spectral variability. We discuss these results in term of a simple spectral model: a power law with high energy cut-off + reflection + Iron line, with the scope of understanding the relations between the observed variations of different components and the physical causes of the variability.
Haardt Francesco
Maraschi Laura
McHardy Ian
Papadakis Iosif
Petrucci Pierre Olivier
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