On the Nature of X-ray Variability in Ark 564

Details On the Nature of X-ray Variability in Ark 564 On the Nature of X-ray Variability in Ark 564

2002-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206190v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20020886

We use data from a recent long ASCA observation of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Ark 564 to investigate in detail its timing properties. We show that a thorough analysis of the time series, employing techniques not generally applied to AGN light curves, can provide useful information to characterize the engines of these powerful sources.We searched for signs of non-stationarity in the data, but did not find strong evidences for it. We find that the process causing the variability is very likely nonlinear, suggesting that variability models based on many active regions, as the shot noise model, may not be applicable to Ark 564. The complex light curve can be viewed, for a limited range of time scales, as a fractal object with non-trivial fractal dimension and statistical self-similarity. Finally, using a nonlinear statistic based on the scaling index as a tool to discriminate time series, we demonstrate that the high and low count rate states, which are indistinguishable on the basis of their autocorrelation, structure and probability density functions, are intrinsically different, with the high state characterized by higher complexity.

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