SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 700175
SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 700175
Title: X-RAY OBSERVATION OF THE NEAREST LINERS AND SEYFERT GALAXIES
Observer: Lawrence
Subject Category: Active Galaxies and Quasars
Seq: 700175 ObsId: 00870
Long-term Plan bin: no LTS bin
ABSTRACT
It is not clear whether the large numbers of very low-luminosity LINER-like galactic nuclei are really AGN or not. We propose AXAF observations of the nearest known such objects, most of which have known weak nuclear soft X-ray sources, aimed primarily at (a) testing whether the X-ray sources are compact or extended, and (b) looking for much stronger but absorbed hard X-ray sources. If instead the "activity" is due to some sort of starburst, choosing the very nearest examples should give us the best chance of resolving this activity - even for the most distant objects in our sample, 1kpc is 30 arcsec. We should be able to detect individual X-ray binaries and supernova remnants to approximately 10e37 erg/s.
TARGET SUMMARY
| TARGET NAME |
RA | DEC |
TIME |
SI |
GRAT |
TYPE |
TC |
ROLL |
PRE |
PHASE |
MULTI |
PRI |
| NGC 404 |
17.362083 | 35.717611 |
25.00000 |
ACIS-S |
NONE |
GO |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
5 |
IMAGES
(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)
PARAMETERS
Obscat Parameters
