THE CASE FOR STANDARD IRRADIATED ACCRETION DISKS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI
@article{Chelouche2013THECF, title={THE CASE FOR STANDARD IRRADIATED ACCRETION DISKS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI}, author={Doron Chelouche}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2013}, volume={772}, pages={9} }
We analyze the broadband photometric light curves of Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Sergeev et al. sample and find that (1) perturbations propagating across the continuum emitting region are a general phenomenon securely detected in most cases, (2) it is possible to obtain reliable time delays between continuum emission in different wavebands, which are not biased by the contribution of broad emission lines to the signal, and (3) such lags are consistent with the predictions of standard irradiated…
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