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Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei

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Nonlinear Phenomena in Stellar Variability

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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.

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  1. Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Hirosowa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-01, Japan

    M. Matsuoka

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  1. Astronomical Institute, Tôhoku University, Sendai, Japan

    M. Takeuti

  2. University of Florida, Gainsville, USA

    J.-R. Buchler

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Matsuoka, M. (1993). Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei. In: Takeuti, M., Buchler, JR. (eds) Nonlinear Phenomena in Stellar Variability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1062-4_41

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