TY - JOUR
T1 - AGN STORM 2. VII. A Frequency-resolved Map of the Accretion Disk in Mrk 817
T2 - Simultaneous X-Ray Reverberation and UVOIR Disk Reprocessing Time Lags
AU - Lewin, Collin
AU - Kara, Erin
AU - Barth, Aaron J.
AU - Cackett, Edward M.
AU - De Rosa, Gisella
AU - Homayouni, Yasaman
AU - Horne, Keith
AU - Kriss, Gerard A.
AU - Landt, Hermine
AU - Gelbord, Jonathan
AU - Montano, John
AU - Arav, Nahum
AU - Bentz, Misty C.
AU - Boizelle, Benjamin D.
AU - Dalla Bontà, Elena
AU - Brotherton, Michael S.
AU - Dehghanian, Maryam
AU - Ferland, Gary J.
AU - Fian, Carina
AU - Goad, Michael R.
AU - Hernández Santisteban, Juan V.
AU - Ilić, Dragana
AU - Kaastra, Jelle
AU - Kaspi, Shai
AU - Korista, Kirk T.
AU - Kosec, Peter
AU - Kovačević, Andjelka
AU - Mehdipour, Missagh
AU - Miller, Jake A.
AU - Netzer, Hagai
AU - Neustadt, Jack M.M.
AU - Panagiotou, Christos
AU - Partington, Ethan R.
AU - Č. Popović, Luka
AU - Sanmartim, David
AU - Vestergaard, Marianne
AU - Ward, Martin J.
AU - Zaidouni, Fatima
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
PY - 2024/10/1
Y1 - 2024/10/1
N2 - X-ray reverberation mapping is a powerful technique for probing the innermost accretion disk, whereas continuum reverberation mapping in the UV, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) reveals reprocessing by the rest of the accretion disk and broad-line region (BLR). We present the time lags of Mrk 817 as a function of temporal frequency measured from 14 months of high-cadence monitoring from Swift and ground-based telescopes, in addition to an XMM-Newton observation, as part of the AGN STORM 2 campaign. The XMM-Newton lags reveal the first detection of a soft lag in this source, consistent with reverberation from the innermost accretion flow. These results mark the first simultaneous measurement of X-ray reverberation and UVOIR disk reprocessing lags—effectively allowing us to map the entire accretion disk surrounding the black hole. Similar to previous continuum reverberation mapping campaigns, the UVOIR time lags arising at low temporal frequencies are longer than those expected from standard disk reprocessing by a factor of 2-3. The lags agree with the anticipated disk reverberation lags when isolating short-timescale variability, namely timescales shorter than the Hβ lag. Modeling the lags requires additional reprocessing constrained at a radius consistent with the BLR size scale inferred from contemporaneous Hβ-lag measurements. When we divide the campaign light curves, the UVOIR lags show substantial variations, with longer lags measured when obscuration from an ionized outflow is greatest. We suggest that, when the obscurer is strongest, reprocessing by the BLR elongates the lags most significantly. As the wind weakens, the lags are dominated by shorter accretion disk lags.
AB - X-ray reverberation mapping is a powerful technique for probing the innermost accretion disk, whereas continuum reverberation mapping in the UV, optical, and infrared (UVOIR) reveals reprocessing by the rest of the accretion disk and broad-line region (BLR). We present the time lags of Mrk 817 as a function of temporal frequency measured from 14 months of high-cadence monitoring from Swift and ground-based telescopes, in addition to an XMM-Newton observation, as part of the AGN STORM 2 campaign. The XMM-Newton lags reveal the first detection of a soft lag in this source, consistent with reverberation from the innermost accretion flow. These results mark the first simultaneous measurement of X-ray reverberation and UVOIR disk reprocessing lags—effectively allowing us to map the entire accretion disk surrounding the black hole. Similar to previous continuum reverberation mapping campaigns, the UVOIR time lags arising at low temporal frequencies are longer than those expected from standard disk reprocessing by a factor of 2-3. The lags agree with the anticipated disk reverberation lags when isolating short-timescale variability, namely timescales shorter than the Hβ lag. Modeling the lags requires additional reprocessing constrained at a radius consistent with the BLR size scale inferred from contemporaneous Hβ-lag measurements. When we divide the campaign light curves, the UVOIR lags show substantial variations, with longer lags measured when obscuration from an ionized outflow is greatest. We suggest that, when the obscurer is strongest, reprocessing by the BLR elongates the lags most significantly. As the wind weakens, the lags are dominated by shorter accretion disk lags.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6b08
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ad6b08
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85207134548
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 974
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 271
ER -