XMM-Newton Large Programme Details



PROPOSAL OVERVIEW
Proposal Title The iron line variability of NGC2992: a direct probe of AGN central engines
Proposal Category Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, BL-Lac Objects
Proposal Type LARGE PROGRAM
Proposal Id 065491
Number of Observations 1
Total exposure time (ks) 99

PI DETAILS
PI Dr Valentina Braito
Institute University of Leicester
Country UNITED KINGDOM

CO-INVESTIGATORS
Name Country
T. Yaqoob UNITED STATES
J. Reeves UNITED KINGDOM
K. Murphy UNITED STATES

ABSTRACT
We propose a monitoring campaign (8 observation of ~55 ksec each) of the bright Seyfert 1.5 NGC2992, which reveals dramatic X-ray variability. The aim of the proposal is to directly probe how and on what timescale the broad Fe line responds to the continuum. The analysis of the previous X-ray observations unveiled that its X-ray flux varies by a factor of 10 over a year with the broad Fe line responding to the continuum. Such behavior is extremely rare and makes NGC2992 a unique laboratory to investigate the central engine of AGN. The proposed monitoring maximizes the probability of covering as much of the dynamic range of continuum and Fe line variability as possible. These observations will allow us to obtain the best constraints to date of the Fe line properties for each flux state.

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 (21 references)
  1. " X-ray variability of 104 active galactic nuclei. XMM-Newton power-spectrum density profiles "
    Gonzalez-Martin, O.; Vaughan, S.;
    2012 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 544, id.A80, pp.
    Number of Citations: 112
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2012A&A...544A..80G
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219008

  2. " Understanding Dual Active Galactic Nucleus Activation in the nearby Universe "
    Koss, Michael; Mushotzky, Richard; Treister, Ezequiel; Veilleux, Sylvain; Vasudevan, Ranjan; Trippe, Margaret;
    2012 - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 746, Issue 2, article id. L22, pp. (2012).
    Number of Citations: 115
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2012ApJ...746L..22K
    DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/746/2/L22

  3. " Are X-Ray Emitting Coronae around Supermassive Black Holes Outflowing? "
    Liu, Teng; Wang, Jun-Xian; Yang, Huan; Zhu, Fei-Fan; Zhou, You-Yuan;
    2014 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 783, Issue 2, article id. 106, pp. (2014).
    Number of Citations: 40
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2014ApJ...783..106L
    DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/783/2/106

  4. " Serendipitous UV source catalogues for 10 years of XMM and 5 years of Swift "
    Yershov, V. N.;
    2014 - Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 354, Issue 1, pp.97-101
    Number of Citations: 3
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2014Ap&SS.354...97Y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10509-014-1944-5

  5. " X-ray spectral parameters for a sample of 95 active galactic nuclei "
    Vasylenko, A. A.; Zhdanov, V. I.; Fedorova, E. V.;
    2015 - Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 360, article id.37, pp.
    Number of Citations: 8
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2015Ap&SS.360...71V
    DOI: 10.1007/s10509-015-2585-z

  6. " Non-detection of X-ray emission from sterile neutrinos in stacked galaxy spectra "
    Anderson, Michael E.; Churazov, Eugene; Bregman, Joel N.;
    2015 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 452, Issue 4, p.3905-3923
    Number of Citations: 99
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2015MNRAS.452.3905A
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1559

  7. " The Million Optical - Radio/X-ray Associations (MORX) Catalogue "
    Flesch, Eric W.;
    2016 - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 33, id.e052 pp.
    Number of Citations: 17
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2016PASA...33...52F
    DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2016.44

  8. " X-ray variability of Seyfert 1.8/1.9 galaxies "
    Hernandez-Garcia, L.; Masegosa, J.; Gonzalez-Martin, O.; Marquez, I.; Guainazzi, M.; Panessa, F.;
    2017 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 602, id.A65, pp.
    Number of Citations: 8
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017A&A...602A..65H
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730476

  9. " BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog "
    Ricci, C.; Trakhtenbrot, B.; Koss, M. J.; Ueda, Y.; Del Vecchio, I.; Treister, E.; Schawinski, K.; Paltani, S.; Oh, K.; Lamperti, I.; Berney, S.; Gandhi, P.; Ichikawa, K.; Bauer, F. E.; Ho, L. C.; Asmus, D.; Beckmann, V.; Soldi, S.; Balokovic, M.; Gehrels, N.; Markwardt, C. B.;
    2017 - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 233, Issue 2, article id. 17, pp. (2017).
    Number of Citations: 107
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017ApJS..233...17R
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aa96ad

  10. " BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) - VI. The ΓX-L/LEdd relation "
    Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Ricci, Claudio; Koss, Michael J.; Schawinski, Kevin; Mushotzky, Richard; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Veilleux, Sylvain; Lamperti, Isabella; Oh, Kyuseok; Treister, Ezequiel; Stern, Daniel; Harrison, Fiona; Balokovic, Mislav; Gehrels, Neil;
    2017 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 470, Issue 1, p.800-814
    Number of Citations: 32
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017MNRAS.470..800T
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1117

  11. " The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback "
    Ricci, Claudio; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Koss, Michael J.; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Schawinski, Kevin; Oh, Kyuseok; Lamperti, Isabella; Mushotzky, Richard; Treister, Ezequiel; Ho, Luis C.; Weigel, Anna; Bauer, Franz E.; Paltani, Stephane; Fabian, Andrew C.; Xie, Yanxia; Gehrels, Neil;
    2017 - Nature, Volume 549, Issue 7673, pp. 488-491 (2017).
    Number of Citations: 82
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2017Natur.549..488R
    DOI: 10.1038/nature23906

  12. " The Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. IX. The Clustering Environments of an Unbiased Sample of Local AGNs "
    Powell, M. C.; Cappelluti, N.; Urry, C. M.; Koss, M.; Finoguenov, A.; Ricci, C.; Trakhtenbrot, B.; Allevato, V.; Ajello, M.; Oh, K.; Schawinski, K.; Secrest, N.;
    2018 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 858, Issue 2, article id. 110, pp. (2018).
    Number of Citations: 21
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2018ApJ...858..110P
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aabd7f

  13. " Tracking the iron K alpha line and the ultra fast outflow in NGC 2992 at different accretion states "
    Marinucci, A.; Bianchi, S.; Braito, V.; Matt, G.; Nardini, E.; Reeves, J.;
    2018 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 478, Issue 4, p.5638-5649
    Number of Citations: 8
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2018MNRAS.478.5638M
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty1436

  14. " Hot corona properties of Swift/BAT-detected AGNs "
    Wang, Chan; Yu, Li-Ming; Bian, Wei-Hao; Zhao, Bi-Xuan;
    2019 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 487, Issue 2, p.2463-2473
    Number of Citations: 5
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2019MNRAS.487.2463W
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1395

  15. " The Variable and Non-variable X-Ray Absorbers in Compton-thin Type II Active Galactic Nuclei "
    Laha, Sibasish; Markowitz, Alex G.; Krumpe, Mirko; Nikutta, Robert; Rothschild, Richard; Saha, Tathagata;
    2020 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 897, Issue 1, id.66
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2020ApJ...897...66L
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab92ab

  16. " The Eddington ratio-dependent 'changing look' events in NGC 2992 "
    Guolo, Muryel; Ruschel-Dutra, Daniel; Grupe, Dirk; Peterson, Bradley M.; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa; Schimoia, Jaderson; Nemmen, Rodrigo; Robinson, Andrew;
    2021 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 508, Issue 1, pp.144-156
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2021MNRAS.508..144G
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2550

  17. " 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

  18. " Coevolution of Broad Emission Lines and X-Ray Spectrum in Changing-look AGNs "
    Liu, Hao; Wu, Qingwen; Lyu, Bing;
    2022 - The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 930, Issue 1, id.46, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022ApJ...930...46L
    DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5fa5

  19. " The lively accretion disc in NGC 2992 - II. The 2019/2021 X-ray monitoring campaigns "
    Middei, R.; Marinucci, A.; Braito, V.; Bianchi, S.; De Marco, B.; Luminari, A.; Matt, G.; Nardini, E.; Perri, M.; Reeves, J. N.; Vagnetti, F.;
    2022 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 514, Issue 2, pp.2974-2993
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022MNRAS.514.2974M
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac1381

  20. " Localizing narrow Fe Kalpha emission within bright AGN "
    Andonie, Carolina; Bauer, Franz E.; Carraro, Rosamaria; Arevalo, Patricia; Alexander, David M.; Brandt, William N.; Buchner, Johannes; He, Adam; Koss, Michael J.; Ricci, Claudio; Salinas, Vicente; Solimano, Manuel; Tortosa, Alessia; Treister, Ezequiel;
    2022 - Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 664, id.A46, pp.
    Number of Citations: 0
    https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/search/q=bibcode:2022A&A...664A..46A
    DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142473

  21. " 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