Unveiling a young quasar: PKS1549-79

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Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007xmm..prop...31o&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #05509701

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Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, Bl-Lac Objects, X-Ray Background, Pks1549-79, Xmm-Newton Proposal Id #05509701

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Galaxy merger models predict rapid black hole growth and strong outflows late in the merger as the accretion rate increases. PKS1549-79 is a powerful, low redshift active galaxy which has undergone a recent merger. It is therefore an ideal object to test our understanding of galaxy activity and mergers and for studying feedback between AGN and their host galaxies. We propose a 75 ksec XMM-Newton observation to: (i) determine the amount and onisation state of the nuclear obscuring material in PKS1549-79 and hence confirm its status as a local proto-quasar; (ii) search for the massive, probably highly ionised, outflowing wind predicted by galaxy evolution models and hence complete a census of outflow components in this object; and (iii) quantify the starburst activity.

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