SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL 61101

MR. YUICHI TERASHIMA
TERASIMA@SATIO.PHYS.NAGOYA-U.AC.JP

NAGOYA UNIV.
AICHI JAPAN 464-01
NAGOYA
CHIKUSA-KU
Tel: 052-789-2918 Fax: 052-789-2919
Medium: 4GBDAT
Subject: NORMAL GALAXIES

LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF AGN AT THE LOW LUMINOSITY END - HALPHA FLUX LIMITED SAMPLE OF LINERS -


ABSTRACT

We propose observations of X-ray unbiased sample of LINERs in nearby galaxies. About 10 LINERs have been observed by ASCA to search for AGNs. Low luminosity AGN, X-ray luminosity ranging from 10E40 to 10E41 erg/s, are found in most of them. However they are biased to those galaxies which exhibit AGN like activities in various form. We selected 2 LINER galaxies with large Halpha flux to construct an Halpha limited sample. Our aims are (1)to understand physics in LINERs using a well selected small sample, (2)to calibrate correlations between X-ray and other wavelength properties (3)to estimate the X-ray luminosity function of AGN at the low luminosity end and to set limits to contribution to the X-ray background using optical complete survey results and X-ray results.

CO-INVESTIGATORS
CO-I NAME INSTITUTE COUNTRY
HIDEYO KUNIEDANAGOYA UNIV.JAPAN
TAKASHI OKAJIMANAGOYA UNIV.JAPAN
HARUMI TAKATANAGOYA UNIV.JAPAN

TARGETS

TARGET NAMEPRIRADECTIMETCOFFGISSIS CNTOBS
1)NGC4457
2
187.2467 3.5711 40 ksN
Y
P
0.40000
1
2)NGC3507
2
165.8562 18.1375 40 ksN
Y
P
0.20000
1