SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL 63024
ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT
AN DER STERNWARTE 16
POTSDAM
BRANDENBURG GERMANY 14482
Tel: I+49/331/7499-381 Fax: +49/331/7499-267
Medium: 4GBDAT
Subject: AGN
ASCA SPECTROSCOPY OF BRIGHT, INTERACTING SOFT X-RAY SELECTED SEYFERTS
ABSTRACT
We have optically identified the brightest ~1000 ROSAT All-Sky-Survey sources. We now have a statistically complete sample of bright, soft X-ray Seyfert galaxies, equivalent to the hard-X-ray-selected Piccinnotti-sample. A large fraction of the new sources shows signatures of interaction. Hard X-ray spectra of some sample objects taken with ASCA and XTE, quite unexpectedly show that their X-ray continua can be described by a single power law spectrum in the whole 0.1-10 keV band, with an energy index typically above 1.0, inconsistent with the conventional spectral model for hard X-ray selected Seyferts. Here we propose to take 20 ksec ASCA spectra of the three brightest interacting Seyfert galaxies never observed at hard X-rays.
CO-INVESTIGATORS
| CO-I NAME | INSTITUTE | COUNTRY |
|---|
| NORIKO YAMASAKI | TOKYO UNIVERSITY | JAPAN |
| TAKAMITSU MIYAJI | AIP | GERMANY |
| AXEL SCHWOPE | AIP | GERMANY |
| WOLFGANG VOGES | MPE | GERMANY |
| JOACHIM TRUEMPER | MPE | GERMANY |
TARGETS
| TARGET NAME | PRI | RA | DEC | TIME | TC | OFF | GIS | SIS CNT | OBS |
|---|
| 1)CTS 109 | 1 | 323.0083 | -33.7153 | 20 ks | N | Y | P | 1.13000 | 1 |
| 2)RHS39 | 1 | 214.8458 | -26.6450 | 20 ks | N | Y | P | 0.88000 | 1 |
| 3)MRK 506 | 1 | 260.6667 | 30.8811 | 20 ks | N | Y | P | 0.79000 | 1 |