THE 1ST ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPOLARIMETRIC STUDY OF NGC-1068

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作者
CODE, AD
MEADE, MR
ANDERSON, CM
NORDSIECK, KH
CLAYTON, GC
WHITNEY, BA
MAGALHAES, AM
BABLER, B
BJORKMAN, KS
SCHULTELADBECK, RE
TAYLOR, M
机构
[1] Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison
[2] CASA, University of Colorado, Campus Box 389, Boulder
[3] Center for Astrophysics, M/S 15, Cambridge, MA 02138
[4] Inst. Astronômico e Geofisico, Universidade de São Paulo, SP 01065
[5] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
关键词
GALAXIES; INDIVIDUAL; (NGC-1068); SEYFERT; POLARIZATION;
D O I
10.1086/186722
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P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the first ultraviolet spectropolarimetric observations of the Type 2 Seyfert galaxy NGC 1068 obtained by the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE). In this communication we discuss the continuum polarization in the ultraviolet. Shortward of 2500 angstrom the polarization becomes constant at 16% at a position angle of 112-degrees. This is in general agreement with the 1983 prediction of Miller and Antonucci and their thick torus model, in which a hidden Type 1 Seyfert nucleus is seen in light scattered by electrons outside the obscured nuclei.
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页码:L63 / L65
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