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Unified Scheme for Seyferts or the Influence of Interactions?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

D. Dultzin-Hacyan ,
Ivette Fuentes Guridi ,
Yair Krongold  and
Paolo Marziani
D. Dultzin-Hacyan
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía UNAM, México
Ivette Fuentes Guridi
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México
Yair Krongold
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México
Paolo Marziani
Affiliation:
Osservatorio Astronomico de Padova, Italia

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The first statistical study of the environment of Seyfert galaxies (of both types 1 and 2) was done by Petrosian (1982), who found that Sy2 galaxies had an excess of nearby companion galaxies with respect to field galaxies. Dahari (1985) made a similar study, and obtained that both types of Seyfert galaxies are found five times more often in interacting systems that “normal” galaxies. Fuentes-Williams & Stocke (1988) obtained the opposite result: that Seyfert galaxies have no significative excess of nearby companions, and MacKenty (1989) obtained the same result as Petrosian. The last papers appeared in 1995: Rafanelli, Violato & B.aruffolo (1995) obtained a similar result as Dahari. Laurikainen & Salo (1995) made a careful attempt to understand the discrepancies; they concluded that the incompatibilities in the results were mainly due to control sample selection, and problems in background galaxy determination. Their work confirmed the result of the first study. However, in order to explain the discrepancies between previous results, they also used incorrectly defined control samples. Objections can be made against all of these works for this only reason. We have repeated the study using, for the first time, the digitized Palomar Sky Survey plates (paSS), an automated selection procedure, and correctly defined control samples (Osterbrock 1993).

Type
Nuclear Activity
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 186: Galaxy Interactions at High and Low Redshift , 1999 , pp. 329 - 332
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Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

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