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    PR # 32190                                                                   
     Recent data from the Ginga and ROSAT satellites has revealed strong         
     emission and absorption features in the X-ray spectra of AGN.  These        
     features have been interpreted as evidence for large amounts of             
     circumnuclear material reprocessing the nuclear continuum radiation.        
     We propose to observe 3 Seyfert-type AGN which have very different          
     spectra, indicating that different conditions exist in each. ASCA           
     observations will allow us to compare and contrast observed line            
     energies and strengths along with energies and depths of absorption         
     features, to improve our understanding of how any why different             
     processes dominate different AGN.                                           
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
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