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Table 5.

Comparison of our results with some findings from the literature (see Sect. 1), where several methods to analyze the dependence of AGN variability on MBH, λE, and Lbol were used.

Publication Method Amplitude Timescale

MBH λE Lbol MBH λE Lbol
This work SF N A A
Wilhite et al. (2008) SF C A A
MacLeod et al. (2010) DRW C AA AA C N
Kelly et al. (2013) PSD A A A
Simm et al. (2016) EV, PSD N A A N N N
Caplar et al. (2017) SF C AA C
Sánchez-Sáez et al. (2018) SF N A
Laurenti et al. (2020) SF C A AA

Notes. The table reports (left to right): reference paper; method applied for the analysis; dependence of amplitude/timescale on MBH, λE, and Lbol. C = correlation (CC = strong); A = anticorrelation (AA = strong); N = no relation found; – = dependence not investigated.

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