Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-08-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for Jan. 99 issue of ApJS. 35 pages with embedded postscript figures. 8 large tables included externally as postscrip
Scientific paper
10.1086/313179
The results of a 0.4-10.0 keV ASCA spectral analysis of a sample of low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN; M51, NGC 3147, NGC 4258), low-ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs; NGC 3079, NGC 3310, NGC 3998, NGC 4579, NGC 4594) and starburst galaxies (M82, NGC 253, NGC 3628 and NGC 6946) are presented. In spite of the heterogeneous optical classifications of these galaxies, the X-ray spectra are fit well by a ``canonical'' model consisting of an optically-thin Raymond-Smith plasma ``soft'' component with T ~ 7 x 10^6 K and a ``hard'' component that can be modeled by either a power-law with a photon index ~ 1.7 or a thermal bremsstrahlung with T ~ 6 x 10^7 K. The soft-component 0.4-10 keV instrinsic luminosities tend to be on the order 10^39-40 ergs/s while the hard-component luminosities tend to be on the order of 10^40-41 ergs/s. The detection of line emission is discussed. An analysis of the short-term variability properties was given in Ptak et al. (1998) and detailed interpretation of these results will be given in Paper II. (abridged)
Mushotzky Richard
Ptak Andrew
Serlemitsos Peter
Yaqoob Tahir
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