The International Agn Watch: a Multiwavelength Monitoring Consortium
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tbe International AGN Watch, an informal consortium of over 100 astronomers, was established to coordinate multiwavelength monitoring of a limited number of active galactic nuclei ' and thus obtain comprehensive continuum and emission-tine variability data with unprecedented temporal and wavelength coverage. In this review, we summarize the principal scientific results from two completed space-based and ground-based campaigns on the Seyfert galaxies NGC 5548 and NGC 3783. We describe a project in progress and outline our future plans.
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