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We present a power spectral analysis of a 100‐ks  XMM–Newton  observation of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxy Ark 564. When combined with earlier  RXTE  and  ASCA  observations, these data produce a power spectrum covering seven decades of frequency which is well described by a power law with two very clear breaks. This shape is unlike the power spectra of almost all other active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed so far, which have only one detected break, and resemble Galactic binary systems in the soft state. The power spectrum can also be well described by the sum of two Lorentzian‐shaped components, the one at higher frequencies having a hard spectrum, similar to those seen in Galactic binary systems. Previously we have demonstrated that the lag of the hard‐band variations relative to the soft band in Ark 564 is dependent on variability time‐scale, as seen in Galactic binary sources. Here we show that the time‐scale dependence of the lags can be described well using the same two‐Lorentzian model which describes the power spectrum, assuming that each Lorentzian component has a distinct time lag. Thus all X‐ray timing evidence points strongly to two discrete, localized, regions as the origin of most of the variability. Similar behaviour is seen in Galactic X‐ray binary systems in most states other than the soft state, i.e. in the low‐hard and intermediate/very high states. Given the very high accretion rate of Ark 564 the closest analogy is with the very high (intermediate) state rather than the low‐hard state. We therefore strengthen the comparison between AGN and Galactic binary sources beyond previous studies by extending it to the previously poorly studied very high accretion rate regime.

Discovery of multiple Lorentzian components in the X‐ray timing properties of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Ark 564