Quasars around the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3516
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- 20 June 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 500 (2) , 596-598
- https://doi.org/10.1086/305779
Abstract
We report redshift measurements of 5 X-ray emitting blue stellar objects (BSO's) located less than 12 arc min from the X-ray Seyfert galaxy, NGC 3516. We find these quasars to be distributed along the minor axis of the galaxy and to show a very good correlation between their redshift and their angular distance from NGC 3516. Moreover the redshifts of these 5 quasars are: 0.33, 0.69, 0.93, 1.40 and 2.10 which are very near the peaks of the redshift periodicity distribution (i.e. z=0.3, 0.6, 0.96, 1.41 and 1.96). All these observed properties strikingly confirm, around this single example of a Seyfert, the composite picture derived from previous physical associations of quasars with low redshift, active galaxies.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in ApKeywords
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