Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...183.6403j&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 183rd AAS Meeting, #64.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.1390
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
In the first two years of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission, the Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (OSSE) has observed about two dozen Seyfert active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from the HEAO-1 list (Rothschild et al. 1983) and intense X-ray sources detected by EXOSAT and Ginga. The OSSE observations in the 50 keV - 10 MeV range indicate spectra which, on average, are significantly softer than the power law photon index of Gamma =1.7 which is generally reported in the Xray band. The average spectrum is well described by exponential or thermal Comptonization models indicating a break in the spectrum near 100 keV. We summarize the OSSE observations of AGN and present the average Seyfert spectrum above 50 keV. Rothschild, R.E., et al. 1983, Ap. J., 269, 423.
Cameron Robert A.
Grabelsky David Andrew
Grove Eric J.
Johnson Neil W.
Jung Gregory V.
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