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Following the first detection of X-ray emission from the Seyfert galaxy NGC41511, later observations2–4 have demonstrated that the X-ray spectrum up to 100 keV may be described by a power law having a differential spectral index 1<α<1.6 with a turnover at low energies caused by photoelectric absorption. Recently the results of an observation of this galaxy in the energy range 25–190 keV (ref. 5) have shown it to have a very hard spectrum with α≅0.9. Here more detailed results of the original observation of NGC4151 (ref. 6) using the MISO telescope are presented.
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Perotti, F., Ventura, A., Sechi, G. et al. Low energy γ-ray spectrum of NGC4151. Nature 282, 484–486 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282484a0
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