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Full Spectral Timing model for AGN. Calculates time-dependent SEDs, including an intrinsically variable disc (propagating fluctuations), disc reverberation, and wind re-processing

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AGNvar2

Full Spectral Timing Model for AGN, written in Python, and described in Hagen, Done & Edelson (Submitted): https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240103452H/abstract.

The model has the ability to calculate fully time-dependent AGN SEDs, including intrinsic variability (propagating fluctuations), disc reverberation, and wind re-processing It considers the case where the variability is generated by mass-accretion rate fluctuations within the accretion flow itself. In this picture slow variability is generated in the disc (or outer regions), which then propagates down into the X-ray corona where the fast variability is produced. The slow the modulates the fast. As well as these intrinsic processes, the code includes the effect of X-ray radiation incident on the disc giving a rapid re-processed component to the disc variability (conserving energy throughout such that the response is accurate), and it includes the possibility of calculating the re-processed signal from a wind component, using Cloudy photoionisation claculations (it is recomended to use a computer with a large amount of memory for these calculations...). Overall the effect is a model that can describe and calculate complex variability signatures in AGN.

Note that the current release has been tailored for moderate Eddington ratio AGN, where there is likely to be a disc present. Current work is extending to low Eddington ratio systems where the structure of the flow could be vastly different.

Documentation will be coming soon (once I have time to sit down and write it!) Until then, if you have questions, email me at scott.hagen@durham.ac.uk

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