X-ray Intraday Variability and Power Spectral Density Profiles of the Blazar 3C 273 with XMM-Newton during 2000-2021
2021
We present X-ray intraday variability and power spectral density (PSD) analyses of the longest 23 pointed XMM-Newton observations of the blazar 3C 273 that were taken during 2000 - 2021. Intraday variability and PSDs have been estimated in three energy bands: 0.2 - 2 keV (soft), 2 - 10 keV (hard), and 0.2 - 10 keV (total). Sixteen of the 23 observations exhibited some variability, though no flares were seen. Typical timescales for variability were ~1 ks. A power-law model provides good fits to each PSD, with most of the slopes between -1.7 and -2.7. Using fits to the H_beta line we obtain an estimate of ~1.7 * 10^9 M_sun for the mass of the supermassive black hole in 3C 273.
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