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Observation of a Solar-like Magnetic Reconnection Event in an AGN Corona with XRISM

  • Authors: Gal Vardi, Ehud Behar, Liyi Gu, Jelle Kaastra, Matteo Guainazzi, Missagh Mehdipour, Keigo Fukumura, Jon Miller, Ari Laor, Erin Kara, Megan E. Eckart, Misaki Mizumoto, Christos Panagiotou, Chen Li, Ogawa Shoji, Matilde Signorini, Keqin Zhao

Gal Vardi et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1007 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

The p-value (vertical axis) of the cross correlation between the hard X-ray (7.2–12.0 keV) LC and the time derivative of the soft X-ray (0.4–2.0 keV) LC (Equation (1)) and the SNR (color scale) of the hard X-ray LC at various temporal binning choices. The strongest correlation is obtained with 6 ks bins, which is used in all other LCs in this Letter. Most choices of bin sizes between 4 and 8 ks yield a significant correlation with p-value <0.01 (including binning by the XRISM satellite orbit at 5747 s), and all have p-value <0.05. This indicates the observed Neupert effect is not an artifact of binning choice. In bins smaller than 4 ks the hard X-ray LC SNR drops below 20, making the correlation unreliable.

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