SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL 62113
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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Subject: AGN
ASCA OBSERVATION OF THE HIGHLY POLARIZED SEYFERT 1 GALAXY MRK 704
ABSTRACT
Recently it has been discovered that many Seyfert galaxies with X-ray warm absorbers have reddened and polarized optical spectra. These results support a model of dust coincident with the ionized gas. However, a handful of Seyfert 1 galaxies show high polarization and yet their optical spectra are blue, apparently indicating very little material in the line of sight. This puzzling result is difficult to explain; however, one possibility is that there is in fact material in the line of sight but that reddening indicators fail to detect it. Since X-ray spectroscopy is very sensitive to ionized absorption in the line of sight, we propose an ASCA observation of the highly polarized, optically blue, Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 704. These results will be used to constrain the
CO-INVESTIGATORS
| CO-I NAME | INSTITUTE | COUNTRY |
|---|
| LAURA KAY | BARNARD COLLEGE | USA |
| DIRK GRUPE | MPE | GERMANY |
| CHIKO OTANI | RIKEN | JAPAN |
TARGETS
| TARGET NAME | PRI | RA | DEC | TIME | TC | OFF | GIS | SIS CNT | OBS |
|---|
| 1)MRK 704 | 1 | 139.6079 | 16.3053 | 40 ks | N | N | P | 0.65000 | 1 |