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High S/N ROSAT-PSPC Observations of the Quasar PG 1116+215: Power Law Shape of the Soft X-ray Spectrum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

M.-H Ulrich
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany mulrich@eso.org
S. Molendi
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstr. 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany sil@mpe-garching.mpg.de

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The quasar PG 1116+215 (Schmidt and Green, 1983) was selected because it is an intrinsically bright low redshift quasar. With z = 0.177 the soft X-ray emission is not significantly redshifted outside the ROSAT band. Its apparent magnitude mv = 15.04 (Véron and Véron, 1989) corresponds to Mv = −25.0 for H0 = 50 km s−1 Mpc−1 and q0 = 0. An additional selection criterion was low NH. Radio observations give NH = 1.44 × 1020 cm−2 (Elvis, Lockman and Wilkes, 1989).

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