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astro-ph1998
The giant-amplitude X-ray outburst in NGC 5905 - a tidal disruption event ?
Stefanie Komossa, Norbert Bade
NGC 5905 is one of the very few galaxies that underwent a giant X-ray outburst, with a change in photon countrate of a factor 100. The outburst spectrum is both, very soft and lumi…
astro-ph1998
On the evolutionary behaviour of BL Lac objects
N. Bade, V. Beckmann, N. G. Douglas +5
We present a new well defined sample of BL Lac objects selected from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS). The sample consists of 39 objects with 35 forming a flux limited sample down t…
astro-ph1998
Properties of dusty warm absorbers and the case of IRAS 17020+4544
Stefanie Komossa, Norbert Bade
We present a study of the properties of dusty warm absorbers and point to some important consequences for the resulting X-ray absorption spectra of AGN. Pronounced effects of the p…