The early stage of a cosmic collision? XMM-Newton unveils two obscured AGN in the galaxy pair ESO509-IG066

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2004-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411435v1

Astron.Astrophys. 429 (2005) L9-L12

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures (1 GIF), accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200400104

We report the XMM-Newton discovery of a X-ray bright AGN pair in the interacting galaxy system ESO509-IG066. Both galaxies host an X-ray luminous (L_X ~10^{43} erg/s) obscured nucleus with column densities N_H~7x10^{22} and N_H~5x10^{21} atoms/cm/cm. The optical morphology is only mildly disturbed, suggesting a merging system in the early stage of its evolution. Still, the pair is probably gravitationally bound, and might eventually evolve into a compact, fully gas embedded systems such as NGC6240.

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