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An intense soft excess and evidence for light bending in the luminous narrow-line quasar PHL 1092
The narrow-line quasar PHL 1092 was observed by XMM-Newton at two epochsseparated by nearly 30 months. Timing analyses confirm the extremevariability observed during previous X-ray missions. A measurement ofthe radiative efficiency is in excess of what is expected from aSchwarzschild black hole. In addition to the rapid X-ray variability,the short ultraviolet (UV) light curves (<4 h) obtained with theOptical Monitor (OM) may also show fluctuations, albeit at much loweramplitude than the X-rays. In general, the extreme variability isimpressive considering that the broad-band (0.4-10 keV rest frame)luminosity of the source is ~1045 erg s-1. Duringat least one of the observations, the X-ray and UV light curves showcommon trends, although given the short duration of the OM observations,and low significance of the UV light curves, it is difficult to commenton the importance of this possible correlation. Interestingly, thehigh-energy photons (>2 keV) do not appear highly variable. The X-rayspectrum resembles that of many narrow-line Seyfert 1 type galaxies: anintense soft excess modelled with a multicolour disc blackbody, apower-law component, and an absorption line at ~1.4 keV. The ~1.4-keVfeature is curious given that it was not detected in previousobservations, and its presence could be related to the strength of thesoft excess. Of further interest is curvature in the spectrum above ~2keV which can be described by a strong reflection component. The strongreflection component, lack of high-energy temporal variability, andextreme radiative efficiency measurements can be understood if weconsider gravitational light-bending effects close to a maximallyrotating black hole.
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| Photoelectric observations of lunar occultations. XV
The last (or possibly penultimate) paper in a series on lunaroccultations presents observations of 404 phenomena, preceded by somegeneral remarks of a retrospective nature. The series of observationsbegan in 1968. Data for 20 doubles or suspected doubles are presented,ranked in order of certainty, with designation 3 representing thesurest. Thirteen of the cases refer to stars not previously noted asdoubles. Seven determinations of angular diameters are presented, ofwhich three have been previously observed.
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| Constellation: | Poissons |
| Right ascension: | 01h40m03.86s |
| Declination: | +06°23'09.9" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.946 |
| Distance: | 158.228 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 18.6 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -22.4 |
| B-T magnitude: | 9.331 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.978 |
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