Accretion, ejection and reprocessing in supermassive black holes

A. De Rosa, S. Bianchi, M. Giroletti, A. Marinucci, M. Paolillo, I. Papadakis, G. Risaliti, F. Tombesi, M. Cappi, B. Czerny, M. Dadina, B. De Marco, M. Dovciak, V. Karas, D. Kunneriath, F. La Franca, A. Manousakis, A. Markowitz, I. McHardy, M. Mehdipour, G. Miniutti, S. Paltani, M. Perez-Torres, B. Peterson, E. Piconcelli, P. O. Petrucci, G. Ponti, A. Rozanska, M. Salvati, M. Sobolewska, J. Svoboda, D. Trevese, P. Uttley, F. Vagnetti, S. Vaughan, C. Vignali, F. H. Vincent, A. Zdziarski

Published 2015-01-12Version 1

This is a White Paper in support of the mission concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT), proposed as a medium-sized ESA mission. We discuss the potential of LOFT for the study of active galactic nuclei. For a summary, we refer to the paper.