Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-12-27
Astrophys.Space Sci. 300 (2005) 137-142
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Hole Accretion on All Mass Scales, eds. T. J. Maccarone, R. P. Fender, and
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10509-005-1189-4
Significant (marginal) detections of periodic signals have been recently reported in 3 (4) Active Galactic Nuclei. Three of the detections were obtained from long EUVE light curves of moderate-luminosity Seyfert galaxies; the fourth was discovered in Chandra data from the low-luminosity Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4395. When compared with Cyg X-1, I find that the period is related to the luminosity as $P\propto L^{2/3}$ rather than the expected one-to-one relationship. This result might be explained if the QPO is associated with the inner edge of the optically thick accretion disk, and the inner edge radius depends on the source luminosity (or black hole mass). A discussion of uncertainties in the period detection methodology is also discussed.
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