CAIXA. II. AGNs from excess variance analysis (Ponti+, 2012)

We report on the results of the first XMM-Newton systematic "excess variance" study of all the radio quiet, X-ray unobscured AGN. The entire sample consist of 161 sources observed by XMM-Newton for more than 10ks in pointed observations, which is the largest sample used so far to study AGN X-ray variability on time scales less than a day. Recently it has been suggested that the same engine might be at work in the core of every Black Hole (BH) accreting object. In this hypothesis, the same variability should be observed in all AGN, once rescaled by the MBH (MBH) and accretion rate (dm/dt). Note: table1.dat 168x76 List of all Multi-wavelength data for each source; table2.dat 168x146 *List of all the excess variance computed, in the; 2-10keV band, with 10, 20, 40 and 80ks intervals ; table4.dat 65x54 List of AGN for which MBH has been me; to MBH estimated in otherwhise We systematically compute the excess variance for all AGN, on different time-scales (10, 20, 40 and 80ks) and in different energy bands (0.3-0.7, 0.7-2 and 2-10keV).