Catching AGN in Deep Minimum States to Unveil Their Core Environment

The deep minimum state of AGNs is characterized by a strongly suppressed or evenabsent primary continuum. As the continuum disappears weak spectral featureslike relativistic iron lines or narrow.. soft Xray emission lines fromionised plasmas become highly significant and their parameters can bedetermined. Therefore deep minimum states offer unique possibilities toinvestigate in detail the physics of the reprocessed components in AGN,including the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole. Applying ourexperience (successful trigger of a long deep minimum observation) we proposetwo triggered 10ksshort snapshot observations and one 80kslong followupobservation of an AGN in deep minimum state. We will identify deep minimum states based on Swift and XMMNewton slew observations. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]