PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
Proposal Title | An unprecedented view of high-frequency QPO phenomena in accreting black holes |
Proposal Category | Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, BL-Lac Objects and Tidal Disruption Events |
Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
Proposal Id | 86501 |
Number of Observations | 9 |
Total exposure time (ks) | 873 |
PI DETAILS | |
PI | Dr William Alston |
Institute | Institute of Astronomy |
Country | UNITED KINGDOM |
CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
Name | Country | |
M. Middleton | UNITED KINGDOM | |
S. Vaughan | UNITED KINGDOM | |
C. Pinto | NETHERLANDS | |
M. Parker | SPAIN | |
A. Zoghbi | UNITED STATES | |
A. Fabian | UNITED KINGDOM | |
J. Markeviciute | UNITED KINGDOM | |
G. Torok | CZECH REPUBLIC | |
A. Markowitz | POLAND |
ABSTRACT | |
We propose an 855 ks (9x95 ks) large program on the well-known narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxy, RE J1034+396, in order to study the X-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in unprecedented detail. These signatures of strong gravity are common to high accretion-rate processes across the mass range. The QPO in RE J1034+396 is already confirmed in 6 XMM-Newton observations, though 4 of these are too short to study the feature at high frequency resolution. We will conclusively measure the harmonic oscillation and use spectral- timing methods to place important constraints on the underlying physical QPO mechanism. We will also use the dynamics of this feature to provide insight into the accretion/ejection processes associated with high- Eddington rates. This is an observation only XMM-Newton can make |
PAPERS |
- 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 (1 references) |
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