| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | Monitoring the unprecedented disk wind in MCG-03-58-007 |
| Proposal Category | Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, BL-Lac Objects and Tidal Disruption Events |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 094365 |
| Number of Observations | 2 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 768 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr. Valentina Braito |
| Institute | Catholic University of America |
| Country | UNITED STATES |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| R. Della Ceca | ITALY | |
| G. Matzeu | SPAIN | |
| R. Middei | ITALY | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| We propose a new intense monitoring campaign consisting of 12×60 ksec XMM-Newton observations coordinated with 6 × 40 ksec NuSTAR exposures of MCG -03- 58-007, which is a powerful and extremely variable disk wind. Past X-ray observations of this remarkable wind revealed a dramatic and fast variability of the velocity of the disk wind, which dropped from v/c~-0.2 to v/c~-0.074 in just 16 days. Such variability is at odds with other disk winds and challenging for current models, and therefore it deserves a further investigation. With the new observations we will: (i) confirm the velocity variations and their timescales, (ii) probe the presence of multiple velocity components and (iii) investigate the wind acceleration mechanism. | |
| 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 |