Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...183.3006e&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 183rd AAS Meeting, #30.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.1338
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The rapidly variable Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 will be the subject of an intensive monitoring campaign with IUE, Rosat, GRO, ASCA and ground-based telescopes in December 1993. We will report preliminary results of 9.3 days of continuous monitoring with IUE, at a sampling rate of once every ~ 80 min, an order of magnitude faster than that achieved in previous AGN monitoring campaigns. Observations, data reduction and analysis will be discussed, focusing especially on accurate measurement of continuum and line fluxes in ~ 400 spectra. We will report on the preliminary search for a correlation between variations in the 1400 Angstroms and 2800 Angstroms continuum bands. This will provide a critical test of any model which claims that the ultraviolet is powered by an accretion disk, since such models predict that the 1400 Angstroms variations should lead those at 2800 Angstroms by at least 1--2 hr. We will also plan to measure in unprecedented detail the temporal cross-correlation function of the highest ionization and most rapidly responding emission lines. This should strongly constrain the distribution of the innermost broad line gas.
Alloin Danielle
Clavel Jean
Crenshaw Michael D.
Edelson Richard
Horne Keith
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