View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by CERN Document Server Ultraviolet-Optical observations of the Seyfert 2 Galaxies NGC 7130, NGC 5135 and IC 3639: Implications for the Starburst-AGN Connection. Rosa M. Gonz´alez Delgado Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 Instituto de Astrof´ısica de Andaluc´ıa, Apdo. 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain Electronic mail:
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[email protected] 1 Based on observations with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555. –3– Received ; accepted Accepted to be published in The Astrophysical Journal –4– ABSTRACT We present and discuss HST (WFPC2 and FOC) images and ultraviolet (GHRS) spectra plus ground-based optical spectra of three Seyfert 2 nuclei (NGC 7130, NGC 5135 and IC 3639).