XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title Measuring the relativistic transfer function in NGC 4151
Proposal Category Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, BL-Lac Objects
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 76167
Number of Observations 7
Total exposure time (ks) 364

PI DETAILS
PI Dr ABDERAHMEN ZOGHBI
Institute University of Michigan
Country UNITED STATES

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
J. Miller UNITED STATES
E. Cackett UNITED STATES
A. Fabian UNITED KINGDOM
C. Reynolds UNITED STATES
P. Uttley NETHERLANDS

ABSTRACT
XMM has been at the forefront of the recent discovery X-ray relativistic reverberation. Short Fe K delays have been observed in seven objects. To advance beyond mere detections, we propose to observe the bright AGN NGC 4151 for 350 ks to directly measure the relativistic transfer function, which encodes the geometry, dynamics and the way space-time alters the path of light through the potential of the black hole. NGC 4151 is the ideal laboratory for such an experiment because of its brightness, variability and the existing reverberation lags. Combing the new and archival data will allow us to measure the Fe K response at many time-scales providing a first direct measurement of the transfer function. XMM is currently the only telescope capable of achieving such a legacy goal prior to Athena.

PAPERS
Authors marked in red are (co-)investigators in the proposal

Classification of papers are:
- CLASS 1:   papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations
- CLASS 2: papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis
- CLASS 3: further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base)
- CLASS 4: comments and suggestions from PI

CLASS 1 (5 references)
  1. " Revisiting the Spectral and Timing Properties of NGC 4151 "
    Zoghbi, A.; Miller, J. M.; Cackett, E.;
    2019 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 884, Issue 1, article id. 26, pp. (2019).
    Number of Citations: 7
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2019ApJ...884...26Z
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab3e31

  2. " Intra-day variability of three Seyfert galaxies measured with XMM-Newton "
    Tripathi, Ashutosh; Wiita, Paul Joseph; Gupta, Alok Chandra; Gu, Min-Feng; Liao, Mai;
    2019 - Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 19, Issue 8, article id. 109 (2019).
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2019RAA....19..109T
    DOI: 10.1088/1674-4527/19/8/109

  3. " Classification of 4XMM-DR9 sources by machine learning "
    Zhang, Yanxia; Zhao, Yongheng; Wu, Xue-Bing;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 503, Issue 4, pp.5263-5273
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.503.5263Z
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab744

  4. " The Thermal Reprocessing of Reflected Radiation in the AGN Accretion Disk "
    Zhong, Xiaogu; Wang, Jiancheng;
    2021 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 912, Issue 2, id.113, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021ApJ...912..113Z
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abec7f

  5. " A Systematic Study of the Short-term X-Ray Variability of Seyfert Galaxies. I. Diversity of the X-Ray rms Spectra "
    Hu, Jingwei; Jin, Chichuan; Cheng, Huaqing; Yuan, Weimin;
    2022 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 936, Issue 2, id.105, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022ApJ...936..105H
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac83ba