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AFTER A 10-YEAR HIATUS MRK 590 SEEMS TO BE REKINDLING ITS NUCLEAR ACTIVITY! OUR EXISTING SWIFT MONITORING DATA SHOW THAT THE AGN IS LIKELY TO REACH ITS HISTORICAL HIGH LUMINOSITY STATE RELATIVELY SOON. WE WISH TO SEIZE THIS RARE OPPORTUNITY TO DOCUMENT FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THE ONSET OF AGN ACTIVITY IF AND WHEN IT OCCURS SINCE THIS CAN LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT INSIGHT ON THE LONG-STANDING PROBLEM OF HOW AGNS ARE TRIGGERED AND FUELED. WE WISH TO CONTINUE OUR CURRENT MONITORING OF MRK 590 WITH SWIFT AT A ~2-WEEK CADENCE AND WITH THE VLBA ON A 7-WEEK BASIS DURING CYCLE 16. HERE WE AIM TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF THE RADIO EMISSION IN MRK 590 ITS CONNECTION TO THE X-RAY PROCESSES AND TO DOCUMENT THE BLACK HOLE STATE CHANGE FROM LOW/HARD STATE TO HIGH/SOFT STATE SHOULD IT OCCUR SINCE THIS HAS NOT BEEN OBSERVED FOR MASSIVE BLACK HOLES TO DATE. THIS MONITORING PROGRAM ALSO SERVES TO TRIGGER OTHER TOO PROGRAMS WITH SWIFT NUSTAR XMM HST AND THE VLT AND THE OBSERVING PROGRAM IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF A BROAD-SCOPED AND MULTI-WAVELENGTH STUDY OF THIS REMARKABLE AGN. THIS PROGRAM FULLY UTILIZES THE FULL CAPABILITIES OF SWIFT BY NEEDING BOTH XRT DATA AND THE FULL SUITE OF UVOT BROAD-BAND PASS IMAGES AT EACH VISIT (EACH OBSERVING EPOCH).

$39,100FY2020National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA

University Of Arizona, Tucson AZ

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