AGN Watch Continuum Monitoring of Radio-quiet and Radio-loud AGN
arXiv:astro-ph/9701105 · doi:10.1016/S0273-1177(97)00615-7
Abstract
The International AGN Watch has monitored a number of radio-quiet and radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei - the most luminous objects in the universe. We present a review of the main observational results from the continuum monitoring campaigns, concentrating on those which aim to quantify the simultaneous ultraviolet to X-ray variability characteristics. These data provide strong constraints on the proposed continuum emission mechanisms. The AGN Watch campaigns have made extensive use of a wide variety of both ground- and space-based multi-waveband observational facilities, and we stress that long-term simultaneous access to the entire electromagnetic spectrum is essential if further progress is to be made.
10 pages, LaTeX including 4 figures. Review from Cospar 96 meeting on Accretion disk variability in AGN, to be published in Advances in Space Research
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