Institut für Astronomie & Astrophysik

Exploring the Geometry of Accreting Material in Active Galactic Nuclei

Elizabeth Rivers

Mining RXTE archival data of ~100 active galactic nuclei for valuable information about the nature and geometry of accreting material around supermassive black holes. I will present results from a monitoring campaign of Centaurus A and also present preliminary results from the full 16-year spectroscopic survey.