Limits on the X-ray emission from several hyperluminous IRAS galaxies
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We report long, pointed ROSAT HRI observations of the hyperluminous galaxies IRAS F00235+1024, F12514+1027, F14481+4454 and F14537+1950. Two of them are optically classified as Seyfert-like. No X-ray sources are detected at the positions of any of the objects, with a mean upper limit L(X)/L(Bol) of 2.3 times 10^-4. This indicates that any active nuclei are either atypically weak at X-ray wavelengths or obscured by column densities N(H)>10^23 cm^-2. They differ markedly from `ordinary' Seyfert 2 galaxies, bearing a closer resemblance in the soft X-ray band to composite Seyfert 2 galaxies or to some types of starburst.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9808324,
title = {Limits on the X-ray emission from several hyperluminous IRAS galaxies},
author = {R. J. Wilman and A. C. Fabian and R. M. Cutri and C. S. Crawford and W. N. Brandt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9808324},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication in MNRAS