SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL 42113
DR. FABRIZIO FIORE
SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY
MA USA 02138
CAMBRIDGE
60 GARDEN ST. MS-4

  E-mail: FIORE@CFA.HARVARD.EDU	Tel: 617 495 7442	Fax: 617 495 7356
  Medium: 2GBDAT

Subject: AGN                                                         
  Title: IONIZED ABSORBERS IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI                                     


Abstract:
 The high sensitivity of ASCA in the 0.4-10 keV energy band and the good SIS energy
 resolution are particularly useful for the study of complex absorption. ASCA can
 provide us with unique information about the physical state of the absorbing gas,
 its location and its geometry. Ionized absorbers have been so far studied by ASCA in
 a handfull of sources only. To increase the sample we propose ASCA observations of
 two bright AGN which showed evidences of ionized absorption in previous ROSAT observations.

 Co-Is:
   1  MARTIN ELVIS        	SAO                           USA       
      ELVIS@CFA.HARVARD.EDU	617 495 7442
   2  ANETA SIEMIGINOWSKA 	SAO                           USA       
   3  BELINDA WILKES      	SAO                           USA       
   4  SMITA MATHUR        	SAO                           USA       


Target Name           PRI RA        Dec        Time TC  Off GIS SIS_Cts  Obs
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NGC985                 0   38.6575   -8.7877    40   N   N   P  0.50000   1