Interacting galaxies - the X-ray view.

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Nov 1997

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Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol. 318, No. 6, p. 329 - 334

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Active Galactic Nuclei: Bl Lacertae Objects, Active Galactic Nuclei: Seyfert Galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei: Interacting Galaxies, Galaxies: X Rays

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The authors have selected a complete, flux-limited sample of bright point-like sources with absorbed X-ray spectra from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey, the ROSAT Hard Survey (RHS). The sample is drawn from the high-galactic latitude sky, |bII| > 30°, and avoids the general direction of the Magellanic Clouds and the Virgo Cluster. It comprises a total of 182 objects of which 118 were previously catalogued objects and 64 were new AGN candidates. Through optical follow-up studies at La Silla, Calar Alto and the 6 m Zelenchuk telescope the authors could identify 56 of the new objects, thus achieving a spectroscopic completeness of 96% of the sample. The selection strategy turned out to be extremely useful. Out of the new identifications, 84% are indeed active galaxies or emission line galaxies. While 14 objects are new BL Lac candidates 33 of the new AGN are Seyfert galaxies with a redshift distribution in the range 0.021-0.63, peaking at around 0.06, i.e. relatively local. Surprisingly, about 40% of the X-ray selected Seyfert galaxies seem to reside in interacting systems. With smaller selection uncertainties this fraction exceeds the number of paired galaxies in optically selected samples and therefore gives strong support to the idea that AGN activity is triggered by interaction.

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