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    PR # 32173                                                                   
     The ultraviolet (UV) to X-ray spectra of Seyfert 1 type AGN have two        
     predominant emission components, the non-thermal X-ray continuum and        
     a broad excess of UV emission known as the "blue-bump", thought to be       
     emission and/or reprocessing from the hypothesised accretion disk.          
     The strength of the blue-bump varies by a factor of 500 from object         
     to object, relative to the X-ray continuum.  It is thought that, at         
     least in some sources, the strong iron K emission line and Compton          
     reflection hump arise through reprocessing of the continuum radiation       
     from the disk surface. We request ASCA observations of sources with         
     exceptionally strong blue-bump components, which should show the            
     strongest signatures of reflection.                                         
                                                                                 
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