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A&A
Volume 602, June 2017
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| Article Number | A124 | |
| Number of page(s) | 25 | |
| Section | Catalogs and data | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629463 | |
| Published online | 27 June 2017 | |
The nature of 50 Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray objects through optical spectroscopy⋆
1 Departamento de Ciencias Físicas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Campus La Casona, Fernández Concha 700, Santiago, Chile
e-mail: ale.rojaslilayu@gmail.com
2 INAF – Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
3 Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, 782-0436 Macul, Santiago, Chile
4 Vatican Observatory, 00120 Vatican City State, Italy
5 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-264, 04510 México D.F., Mexico
6 Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Apartado Postal 51-216, 72000 Puebla, Mexico
7 European Southern Observatory, Ave. Alonso de Cordoba 3107, Casilla 19001, Santiago, Chile
8 Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, 7701 Rondebosch, South Africa
9 South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, 7935 Observatory, South Africa
10 INAF– Instituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
11 School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
12 Instituto de Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile
13 Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia “G. Galilei”, Università di Padova, vicolo dell’Osservatorio 3, 35122 Padova, Italy
14 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy
15 Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Received: 2 August 2016
Accepted: 5 February 2017
We present the nature of 50 hard X-ray emitting objects unveiled through an optical spectroscopy campaign performed at seven telescopes in the northern and southern hemispheres. These objects were detected with the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) instrument onboard the Swift satellite and listed as of unidentified nature in the 54-month Palermo BAT catalogue. In detail, 45 sources in our sample are identified as active galactic nuclei of which, 27 are classified as type 1 (with broad and narrow emission lines) and 18 are classified as type 2 (with only narrow emission lines). Among the broad-line emission objects, one is a type 1 high-redshift quasi-stellar object, and among the narrow-line emission objects, one is a starburst galaxy, one is a X-ray bright optically normal galaxy, and one is a low ionization nuclear emission line region. We report 30 new redshift measurements, 13 confirmations and 2 more accurate redshift values. The remaining five objects are galactic sources: three are Cataclismic Variables, one is a X-ray Binary probably with a low mass secondary star, and one is an active star.
Key words: galaxies: Seyfert / quasars: emission lines / X-rays: binaries / novae, cataclysmic variables / techniques: spectroscopic
Based on observations obtained from the following observatories: Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (Chile); Astronomical Observatory of Bologna in Loiano (Italy); Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (San Pedro Mártir, Mexico); Radcliffe telescope of the South African Astronomical Observatory (Sutherland, South Africa); Sloan Digital Sky Survey; Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Canary Islands, Spain) and New Technology Telescope (NTT) of La Silla Observatory, Chile.
© ESO, 2017
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