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Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Matsuoka*
Affiliation:
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-01, Japan

Abstract

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AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) have their profound time variability over a wide range of time scales. Although many results of AGN variability have been provided from wide band wavelength observations, I would like to concentrate the recent problems concerning a nearby region of their central engine based on the X-ray observations which are most efficient to investigate this region. In this paper we will investigate mainly the result of Seyfert galaxies which would be generalized to other AGN.

Type
II. Observational Facts
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993

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