Observations of AGN with EPIC on board XMM-Newton

M.J.L.Turner, and the EPIC Team


With a combined effective area of 3000 cm$^2$ and with a bandwidth that
covers 0.1 to 10 keV, EPIC is well adapted to spectral studies of AGN
over a wide range of luminosity and redshift. For bright objects the
spectral resolution enables the detection and characterisation of iron
lines with equivalent widths as small as 20 eV. For more distant and
faint sources iron lines have been measured up to red-shifts of 3, so
far. The continuum of AGN can be characterised over the full
bandwidth. In particular soft excess measurements can be made with
unprecedented precision. The EPIC continuum and line spectra of AGN
over a wide range of luminosity and red-shift will be presented.