Corona-heated Accretion-disk Reprocessing: Frequency-resolved Lag Predictions for UV/Optical Reverberation Mapping of Active Galactic Nuclei

Continuum reverberation mapping with high-cadence, long-term UV/optical monitoring of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) enables us to resolve the AGN central engine sizes on different timescales. The frequency-resolved time lags of NGC 5548 (the target for the AGN STORM I campaign) are inconsistent with...

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Main Authors: Jie Chen, Mouyuan Sun, Zhi-Xiang Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad16ea