Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-01-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, ps figs available by email from wnb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk, MNRAS in press
Scientific paper
Zwicky 159.034, one of the Seyfert galaxies identified with EUV sources detected during the ROSAT Wide Field Camera (WFC) all-sky survey, has unusual properties. The ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) 0.1--2.5 keV X-ray spectrum, obtained simultaneously with the WFC survey, appears extremely steep. Subsequent deeper pointed observations with ROSAT revealed that its 0.1--2.5 keV count rate had decreased by an extremely large amount (a factor of about 70). This is comparable to the variability amplitude seen in another ultrasoft Seyfert, E1615+061. There appears to be about 10 times as much flux in the soft component as in any expected hard tail suggesting that, in the absence of partial covering of the hard flux, the soft flux cannot arise via reprocessing of the hard tail. Its peculiar optical spectrum has permitted lines with widths about 1200--1500 km s^{-1}, and forbidden lines are weak or absent. Its optical spectrum shows evidence for variability, and might be used to study the role reprocessed X-rays play in the formation of optical lines.
Brandt Wiliam N.
Fink Henner
Pounds Kenneth A.
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