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   Recent HST, VLBI and X-ray observations have shed light into the
   existence of massive black holes, in a likely quiescent state of
   accretion, in normal galaxies. Since the X-ray band provides a unique
   diagnostic probe to study the regions surrounding the central "engine",
   we propose a 100 ks observation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052,
   characterized by a dust and gas disk within a radius of about 1 kpc,
   with ASCA, which offers a broad band, good spectral resolution and
   great sensitivity at low energies, where the bulk of the X-ray emission
   comes from. NGC 7052 has never been observed before in X-rays. It will
   be possible to study the nature of the soft X-ray emission and the
   contribution of X-ray binaries to the hard X-rays and to properly model
   the inferred multi-phase plasma.
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