SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 700177

SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 700177

Title: X-RAY OBSERVATION OF THE NEAREST LINERS AND SEYFERT GALAXIES

Observer: Lawrence

Subject Category: Active Galaxies and Quasars

Seq: 700177 ObsId: 00872

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 RADEC TIME SI GRAT TYPE TC ROLL PRE PHASE MULTI PRI
NGC 6503
267.364583
70.144750
15.00000
ACIS-S
NONE
GO
no
no
no
no
no
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(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)

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