- Edelson, R;
- Gelbord, J;
- Cackett, E;
- Connolly, S;
- Done, C;
- Fausnaugh, M;
- Gardner, E;
- Gehrels, N;
- Goad, M;
- Horne, K;
- McHardy, I;
- Peterson, BM;
- Vaughan, S;
- Vestergaard, M;
- Breeveld, A;
- Barth, AJ;
- Bentz, M;
- Bottorff, M;
- Brandt, WN;
- Crawford, SM;
- Bontà, E Dalla;
- Emmanoulopoulos, D;
- Evans, P;
- Jaimes, R Figuera;
- Filippenko, AV;
- Ferland, G;
- Grupe, D;
- Joner, M;
- Kennea, J;
- Korista, KT;
- Krimm, HA;
- Kriss, G;
- Leonard, DC;
- Mathur, S;
- Netzer, H;
- Nousek, J;
- Page, K;
- Romero-Colmenero, E;
- Siegel, M;
- Starkey, DA;
- Treu, T;
- Vogler, HA;
- Winkler, H;
- Zheng, W
Swift monitoring of NGC 4151 with an ∼6 hr sampling over a total of 69 days in early 2016 is used to construct light curves covering five bands in the X-rays (0.3-50 keV) and six in the ultraviolet (UV)/optical (1900-5500 Å). The three hardest X-ray bands (>2.5 keV) are all strongly correlated with no measurable interband lag, while the two softer bands show lower variability and weaker correlations. The UV/optical bands are significantly correlated with the X-rays, lagging ∼3-4 days behind the hard X-rays. The variability within the UV/optical bands is also strongly correlated, with the UV appearing to lead the optical by ∼0.5-1 days. This combination of ≳3 day lags between the X-rays and UV and ≲1 day lags within the UV/optical appears to rule out the "lamp-post" reprocessing model in which a hot, X-ray emitting corona directly illuminates the accretion disk, which then reprocesses the energy in the UV/optical. Instead, these results appear consistent with the Gardner & Done picture in which two separate reprocessings occur: first, emission from the corona illuminates an extreme-UV-emitting toroidal component that shields the disk from the corona; this then heats the extreme-UV component, which illuminates the disk and drives its variability.