Extreme Variability Reveals How the Eddington Ratio Regulates Coronal Power in Active Galactic Nuclei

Arghajit Jana, Claudio Ricci, Franz E. Bauer +13

The bolometric luminosity ($L_{\mathrm{bol}}$) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a key tracer of accretion physics, but its direct determination is often hindered by limited spectral…