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Testing the X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei with the nonlinear prediction method

B. Czerny, H. J. Lehto

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9610002

Abstract

The analysis of eight EXOSAT X-ray lightcurves of six active galactic nuclei by nonlinear prediction methods indicates that the observed short time-scale variability is truly stochastic and is not caused by deterministic chaos. This result favors X-ray emission models with mutliple centers of production of hot, possibly relativistic electrons.

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