The remarkable X-ray variability of IRAS 13224-3809 - I. The variability process
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985815%3A_____%2F19%3A00517309" target="_blank" >RIV/67985815:_____/19:00517309 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0302633" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0302633</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2527" target="_blank" >10.1093/mnras/sty2527</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The remarkable X-ray variability of IRAS 13224-3809 - I. The variability process
Original language description
We present a detailed X-ray timing analysis of the highly variable narrow-line Seyfert 1 ( NLS1) galaxy IRAS 13224-3809. The source was recently monitored for 1.5Ms with XMM-Newton, which, combined with 500 ks archival data, makes this the best-studied NLS1 galaxy in X-rays to date. We apply standard time- and Fourier-domain techniques in order to understand the underlying variability process. The source flux is not distributed lognormally, as expected for all types of accreting sources. The first non-linear rms-flux relation for any accreting source in any waveband is found, with rms. flux2/3. The light curves exhibit significant strong non-stationarity, in addition to that caused by the rms-flux relation, and are fractionally more variable at lower source flux. The power spectrum is estimated down to similar to 10(-7) Hz and consists of multiple peaked components: a low-frequency break at similar to 10(-5) Hz, with slope alpha < 1 down to low frequencies, and an additional component breaking at similar to 10(-3) Hz. Using the high-frequency break, we estimate the black hole mass MBH = [0.5-2] x 10(6)M(circle dot) and mass accretion rate in Eddington units,. m Edd greater than or similar to 1. The broad-band power spectral density (PSD) and accretion rate make IRAS 13224-3809 a likely analogue of very high/intermediate-state black hole X-ray binaries. The non-stationarity is manifest in the PSD with the normalization of the peaked components increasing with decreasing source flux, as well as the low-frequency peak moving to higher frequencies. We also detect a narrow coherent feature in the soft-band PSD at 7 x 10(-4) Hz, modelled with a Lorentzian the feature has Q similar to 8 and an rms similar to 3 per cent. We discuss the implication of these results for accretion of matter on to black holes.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN
1365-2966
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Volume of the periodical
482
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
2088-2106
UT code for WoS article
000454578700048
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