X-ray Emission from Seyfert 2 Galaxies with Low-Mass Black Holes

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Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005xmm..prop...25b&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #04005704

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Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, Bl-Lac Objects, X-Ray Background, 144012.70+02474, 110912.39+61234, 011905.14+00374, 103234.85+65022, Xmm-Newton Proposal 04005704

Scientific paper

We have recently identified the first sample of Seyfert 2 nuclei in host galaxies with stellar velocity dispersions smaller than 60 km/s, as a way to detect and study black holes with likely masses below 10^6 solar masses. These galaxies are Type 2 analogs of "dwarf" Seyfert 1 galaxies such as NGC 4395 and POX 52. We propose to obtain XMM exposures of four Seyfert 2 galaxies with stellar velocity dispersions in the range 25-47 km/s in order to (a) determine X-ray luminosities as part of an overall program to measure the SEDs of these sources; (b) determine the amount of X-ray absorption to establish whether these are obscured versions of NLS1 galaxies; (c) search for variability, which is expected for AGNs with very low black hole masses.

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