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Radio-Variability in Radio-Quiet Quasars and Low-Luminosity AGN

Probing the Physics of Active Galactic Nuclei by Multiwavelength Monitoring ASP Conference Series, Vol. TBD, 2000 B.M. Peterson, R.S. Polidan, and R.W. Pogge Radio-Variability in Radio-Quiet Quasars and Low-Luminosity AGN Heino Falcke Max-Planck-Institut fu?r Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hu?gel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany (hfalcke@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de) Joseph Leha?r Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Richard Barvainis National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230 (rbarvai@nsf.gov) Neil M. Nagar1, Andrew S. Wilson2 Astronomy Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2421 (neil,wilson@astro.umd.edu) Abstract. We report on two surveys of radio-weak AGN to look for radio variability. We find significant variability with an RMS of 10-20% on a timescale of months in radio-quiet and radio-intermediate quasars. This exceeds the variability of radio cores in radio-loud quasars (exclud- ing blazars), which vary only on a few percent level. The variability in radio-quiet quasars confirms that the radio emission in these sources is indeed related to the AGN. The most extremely variable source is the radio-intermediate quasar III Zw 2 which was recently found to contain a relativistic jet. In addition we find large amplitude variabilities (up to 300% peak- to-peak) in a sample of nearby low-luminosity AGN, Liners and dwarf- Seyferts, on a timescale of 1.5 years. The variability could be related to the activity of nuclear jets responding to changing accretion rates. Simultaneous radio/optical/X-ray monitoring also for radio-weak AGN, and not just for blazars, is therefore a potentially powerful tool to study the link between jets and accretion flows. 1Present Address: Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, I-50125 Florence, Italy 2Adjunct Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute 1 2 Falcke et al. 1. Introduction In the past a lot of emphasis has been put on studying the radio vari