ASCA observations of Deep ROSAT fields - III. The Discovery of an Obscured Type 2 AGN at z=0.67

Details ASCA observations of Deep ROSAT fields - III. The Discovery of an Obscured Type 2 AGN at z=0.67 ASCA observations of Deep ROSAT fields - III. The Discovery of an Obscured Type 2 AGN at z=0.67

1998-04-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804084v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS accepted, 5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01709.x

We report on the discovery of a narrow-emission-line object at z=0.672 detected in a deep ASCA survey. The object, AXJ0341.4-4453, has a flux in the 2--10keV band of 1.1+/-0.27 E-13 erg/s/cm**2, corresponding to a luminosity of 1.8E44 erg/s (q0=0.5, $H0 = 50km/s/Mpc. It is also marginally detected in the ROSAT 0.5-2keV band with a flux 5.8E-15 erg/s/cm**2. Both the ASCA data alone and the combined ROSAT/ASCA data show a very hard X-ray spectrum, consistent with either a flat power law (alpha < 0.1) or photoelectric absorption with a column of nH > 4E22 cm**-2 (alpha = 1). The optical spectrum shows the high-ionisation, narrow emission lines typical of a Seyfert 2 galaxy. We suggest that this object may be typical of the hard sources required to explain the remainder of the X-ray background at hard energies.

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