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Low-Luminosity Seyfert Nuclei

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Luis C. Ho ,
Alexei V. Filippenko  and
Wallace L.W. Sargent
Luis C. Ho
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Alexei V. Filippenko
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA
Wallace L.W. Sargent
Affiliation:
Palomar Observatory, 105-24 Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Abstract

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We describe a new sample of Seyfert nuclei discovered during the course of an optical spectroscopic survey of nearby galaxies. The majority of the objects, many recognized as AGNs for the first time, have luminosities much lower than those of classical Seyferts and populate the faint end of the AGN luminosity function. A significant fraction of the nuclei emit broad Hα emission qualitatively similar to the broad lines seen in classical Seyfert 1 nuclei and QSOs.

Type
IX. Surveys and Properties of Active Galaxies and Related Sources
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 159: Emission Lines in Active Galaxies: New Methods and Techniques , 1997 , pp. 429 - 433
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1997

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