XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



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
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 (1 references)
  1. " First Observational Evidence for an Interconnected Evolution between Time Lag and QPO Frequency among AGNs "
    Xia, Ruisong; Liu, Hao; Xue, Yongquan;
    2024 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 961, Issue 2, id.L32, 9 pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2024ApJ...961L..32X
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad0a6b