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X-ray studies of Seyfert galaxies and quasars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Claude R. Canizares ,
Gerard A. Kriss ,
John Kruper  and
C. Megan Urry
Claude R. Canizares
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 U.S.A.
Gerard A. Kriss
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 U.S.A.
John Kruper
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 U.S.A.
C. Megan Urry
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 U.S.A.

Abstract

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We present results of studies carried out with the imaging instruments on the Einstein Observatory. We summarize a statistical analysis of the X-ray properties of optically selected, radio quiet quasars including nine new high redshift quasars detected in two deep X-ray surveys. We find that the X-ray to optical luminosity ratio of optically selected quasars decreases with increasing optical luminosity. It depends only weakly, if at all, on redshift. However, the distribution function does not properly account for the properties of the X-ray selected Medium Sensitivity Survey sample (MSS). We note that part of the discrepancy could be due to the presence of red, low luminosity quasars in the MSS but not in the optically selected samples. We also summarize some results from a detailed study of the X-ray properties of 64 Seyfert galaxies. None of the spectral fits performed for the brightest 20 required unusually steep spectra, although in many cases the spectral indices were not well constrained. Of the ten objects with good measurements of the absorbing column density, three showed excesses above the galactic value while the remaining seven gave excess columns generally less than 2 × 1020 cm−2 and consistent with zero. Variability studies of the full Seyfert sample showed three objects to be variable on timescales of a few hours. One of these is the Seyfert II Mkn 78.

Type
II. Continuum Emission
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 119: Quasars , 1986 , pp. 253 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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