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aTestsforStandardAccretionDiskModelsbyVariabilityinActiveGalacticNucleiH.T.Liu1,J.M.Bai1,X.H.Zhao1,andL.Ma2ABSTRACTInthispaper,standardaccretiondiskmodelsofAGNsaretestedusinglightcurvesof26objectswellobservedforreverberationmapping.Timescalesofvariationsareestimatedbythemostcommonde nitionofthevariabilitytimescaleandthezero-crossingtimeoftheautocorrelationfunctionoftheopticallightcurvesforeachsource.Themeasuredtimescalesofvariationsbythetwomethodsareconsistentwitheachother.Ifthetypicalvalueoftheviscosityparameterα～0.1isadopted,themeasuredopticalvariabilitytimescalesaremostclosetothethermaltimescalesofthestandarddisks.Ifαisallowedtorangefrom～0.03to～standard0.2,thedisks.measuredTheretimeisascaleslineararerelationconsistentbetweenwiththethemeasuredthermaltimevariabilityscalesoftimethescalesandblackholemasses,andthislinearrelationisqualitativelyconsistentwithexpectationofthestandardaccretiondiskmodels.ThetimelagsmeasuredbytheZDCFbetweendi erentbandsareontheorderofdays.ThemeasuredtimelagsofNGC4151andNGC7469aremarginallyconsistentwiththetimelagsestimatedinthecaseofcontinuumthermalreprocessingforthestandardaccretiondiskmodels.However,themeasuredtimelagsofNGC5548andFairall9areunlikelytobethecaseofcontinuumthermalreprocessing.OurresultsareunlikelytobeinconsistentwithorarelikelytobeconditionallyinfavorofthestandardaccretiondiskmodelsofAGNs.

Subjectheadings:accretion,accretiondisks—blackholephysics—galaxy:active—galaxy:quasars—galaxy:Seyfert