agn {iAR}

Active Galactic Nuclei

Description

Time series of the AGN MCG-6-30-15 measured in the K-band between 2006 August and 2011 July with the ANDICAM camera mounted on the 1.3 m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO)

Usage

agn

Format

A data frame with 237 observations on the following 3 variables:

t

heliocentric Julian Day - 2450000

m

Flux $(10^(-15) ergs/s/cm^2 /A)$

merr

measurement error standard deviations.

References

Lira P, Arévalo P, Uttley P, McHardy IMM, Videla L (2015). “Long-term monitoring of the archetype Seyfert galaxy MCG-6-30-15: X-ray, optical and near-IR variability of the corona, disc and torus.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454(1), 368–379. ISSN 0035-8711, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv1945, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1945.

Examples

data(agn)
plot(agn$t,agn$m,type="l",ylab="",xlab="")