The largest Swift AGN monitoring campaign: UV/optical variability in NGC 5548

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We report on the largest Swift AGN monitoring program, concerning UV/optical variability in Seyferts. From 554 observations, over a 750d period, of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548, we see a good overall correlation between the X-ray and UV/optical bands, particularly on short timescales (tens of days) [1]. The UVOT bands are found to lag behind X-rays with a lag scaling as wavelength to the power 1.23 +/- 0.31, in agreement with that expected (1.33) if UV/optical variability arises from reprocessing of X-rays by the accretion disc. However, the observed lags are ∼ 3 times longer than expected from a standard Shakura-Sunyaev disc, raising real concerns about the detailed validity of this model. The results can be explained with a slightly larger mass and accretion rate, and a hotter disc, or if the disc is clumpy, thereby enhancing the emission from the outer regions.

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Connolly, S. D., McHardy, I. M., Cameron, D. T., Dwelly, T., Lira, P., Emmanoulopoulos, D., … Uttley, P. (2014). The largest Swift AGN monitoring campaign: UV/optical variability in NGC 5548. In Proceedings of Science. Proceedings of Science (PoS).

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