A Complete Sample of Soft X-ray Selected AGN: I. The Data

Abstract

We present the optical spectra and simple statistical analysis for a complete sample of 110 soft X-ray selected AGN. About half of the sources are Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s), which have the steepest X-ray spectra, strongest FeII emission and slightly weaker [OIII]5007 emission than broad line Seyfert 1s (BLS1s). Kolmogorov Smirnov tests show that NLS1s and BLS1s have clearly different distributions of the X-ray spectral slope, X-ray short-term variability, and FeII equivalent widths and luminosity and FeII/H-beta ratios. The differences in the [OIII]/H-beta and [OIII] equivalent widths are only marginal. We found no significant differences between NLS1s and BLS1s in their rest frame 0.2-2.0 X-ray luminosities, rest frame 5100A monochromatic luminosities, bolometric luminosities, redshifts, and their H$\beta$ equivalent widths.

Accepted for publication in AJ (scheduled for January 2004), 21 pages, 10 figures, The paper including the optical spectra and FeII subtracted spectra can be retrieved from http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~dgrupe/research/sample_paper1.html

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