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   It has emerged that low luminosity AGN may be much more common than
   previously thought, accounting for about 10% of galaxies in the local
   universe (Ho, Filippenko & Sargent 1997). Here we propose ASCA
   observations of 6 newly discovered local AGN, all with weak broad
   Halpha, including the least luminous AGN yet known (NGC4395). Combined
   with existing serendipitous ASCA observations of another 15 local
   galaxies, this will give us a complete sample of 21 low luminosity AGN
   to a flux limit of F(Halpha)=10E-13.5 erg sE-1 cmE-2. These
   observations will allow us to define the very faint end of the AGN X-
   ray luminosity function and to probe the X-ray characteristic of this
   extreme end of the AGN phenomenon. We request a 20ks observation for
   each galaxy, making a total time request of 120ks.
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