A search for optical polarization from the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy RE J1034+396

Details A search for optical polarization from the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy RE J1034+396 A search for optical polarization from the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy RE J1034+396

Apr 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.295..568b&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 295, p. 568

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Seyfert Galaxies, X Ray Sources, Optical Polarization, Line Spectra, Spectral Bands, Polarimetry, Linear Polarization

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We present spectropolarimetry data on RE J1034+396, an ultrasoft X-ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy, and find an upper limit of about 0.4 to the linear polarization in the optical band. This suggests that there is no synchrotron emission in this AGN, and thus it is unlikely that RE J1034+396 is related to BL Lac objects. Furthermore, any other polarization arising from transmission through dust, or reflection from dust and electrons, must be cancelled out by geometrical effects or diluted to a high degree by unpolarized radiation.

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