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The Infrared and X-ray Continua of Quasars: Is there a Connection?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Martin Elvis ,
Jonathan McDowell  and
Belinda J. Wilkes
Martin Elvis
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Jonathan McDowell
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Belinda J. Wilkes
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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The first Einstein IPC X-ray spectra of quasars had slopes similar to their infrared spectra (Elvis et al. 1986) suggesting that the infrared and x-ray continua of quasars might be two ends of a single power-law extending over at least 4 decades of the electromagnetic spectrum. In retrospect this was a bold claim based as it was on only eight quasars with limited infrared coverage. If true though it would greatly simplify the structure of the quasar continuum.

Type
Part 3: X-rays and the Central Source
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 134: Active Galactic Nuclei , 1989 , pp. 184 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989 

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