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The Compton-thick quasar at the heart of the high-redshift giant radio galaxy 6C 0905+39

ArXiv 0801.3341 (2008)

Authors:

MC Erlund, AC Fabian, Katherine M Blundell, Carolin S Crawford

Abstract:

Our XMM-Newton spectrum of the giant, high-redshift (z=1.88) radio galaxy 6C 0905+39 shows that it contains one of the most powerful, high-redshift, Compton-thick quasars known. Its spectrum is very hard above 2 keV. The steep XMM spectrum below that energy is shown to be due to extended emission from the radio bridge using Chandra data. The nucleus of 6C 0905+39 has a column density of 3.5 (+1.4,-0.4) X 10^24 cm^-2 and absorption-corrected X-ray luminosity of 1.7 (+0.9,-0.1) X 10^45 erg/s in the 2-10 keV band. A lower redshift active galaxy in the same field, SDSS J090808.36+394313.6, may also be Compton-thick.
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The Compton-thick quasar at the heart of the high-redshift giant radio galaxy 6C 0905+39

(2008)

Authors:

MC Erlund, AC Fabian, Katherine M Blundell, Carolin S Crawford
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Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. I. Type Ibn (SN 2006jc-like) events

(2008)

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A Pastorello, S Mattila, L Zampieri, M Della Valle, SJ Smartt, S Valenti, I Agnoletto, S Benetti, CR Benn, D Branch, E Cappellaro, M Dennefeld, JJ Eldridge, A Gal-Yam, A Harutyunyan, I Hunter, H Kjeldsen, Y Lipkin, PA Mazzali, P Milne, H Navasardyan, EO Ofek, E Pian, O Shemmer, S Spiro, RA Stathakis, S Taubenberger, M Turatto, H Yamaoka
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Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium. II. The transitional case of SN 2005la

(2008)

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A Pastorello, RM Quimby, SJ Smartt, S Mattila, H Navasardyan, RM Crockett, N Elias-Rosa, P Mondol, JC Wheeler, D Young
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The Birth Place of the Type Ic Supernova 2007gr

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 672:2 (2008) l99-l102

Authors:

R Mark Crockett, Justyn R Maund, Stephen J Smartt, Seppo Mattila, Andrea Pastorello, Jonathan Smoker, Andrew W Stephens, Johan Fynbo, John J Eldridge, I John Danziger, Christopher R Benn
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