Monitoring of active galacitc nuclei. 4: The Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593

Bibcode
1994A&A...284...33D
Dietrich, M.; Kollatschny, W.; Alloin, D.; Aretxaga, I.; Axon, D.; de Bruyn, A. G.; Clavel, J.; Goad, M. R.; Gondhalekar, P.; van Groningen, E.; Horne, K.; Jackson, N.; Laurikainen, E.; Lawrence, A.; Masegosa, J.; Moles, M.; O'Brien, P.; del Olmo, A.; Penston, M. V.; Perea, J.; Perez, E.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Perry, J. J.; Peterson, B. M.; Robinson, A.; Rodriguez Espinosa, J. M.; Stirpe, G. M.; Tadhunter, C.; Terlevich, R.; Unger, S.; Wagner, S. J.; Wanders, I.; Williams, R.
Bibliographical reference

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 284, no. 1, p. 33-43

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1994
Number of authors
33
IAC number of authors
3
Citations
26
Refereed citations
24
Description
Results of a five-month campaign of optical monitoring the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 are presented. High resolution H-alpha and H-Beta spectra and direct images in the Johnson U, B, V, R, and I bands were obtained between January and June 1990. The emission lines and the continuum showed strong variations on time scales of weeks to days. The H-alpha line varied by more than 30% within only 5 days. Cross-correlating the light curves of the Balmer lines with that of the optical continuum gives a lag of around 4 days. Therefore, this low luminosity Seyfert galaxy may have one of the smallest broad line regions (BLRs) known so far.
Type
Refereed
Active galactic nuclei
Seyfert galaxies

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