Long Timescale X-Ray Variability of 3C273: Similarity to Seyfert Galaxies and Galactic Binary Systems

Details Long Timescale X-Ray Variability of 3C273: Similarity to Seyfert Galaxies and Galactic Binary Systems Long Timescale X-Ray Variability of 3C273: Similarity to Seyfert Galaxies and Galactic Binary Systems

Jul 2006

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Blazar Variability Workshop II: Entering the GLAST Era ASP Conference Series, Vol. 350, Proceedings of the Conference Held 10-12

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Long timescale (ie few years) X-ray monitoring of Seyfert galaxies shows that their powerspectral densities (PSDs) are described by broken powerlaws and that the break timescales scale approximately linearly with black hole mass. Here we present a 2-10 keV X-ray lightcurve of 3C273 stretching back over 30 years. We determine the PSD using the same PSD modelling software that we use for Seyfert galaxies to account for lightcurves with gaps. Although 3C273 is dominated by jet emission in the 2-10 keV band, its PSD is identical to that of Seyfert galaxies in the `high' state and a clear break is found. The similarity of the PSD shape of 3C273 to that of a Seyfert galaxy implies that the process with underlies the variability in jet dominated sources is the same as that which produces variations in non-beamed sources. This process is probably variations in the accretion rate which propogate inwards via the accretion disc into the corona and thence outwards into the jet. Interestingly, the break timescale is consistent with that which would be expected from a Seyfert galaxy with the same black hole mass; we do not have to invoke relativistic beaming and time dilation to achieve consistency. Thus the variations are probably produced by a source external to the jet rather than one moving with the jet.

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