We report on ROSAT and ASCA observations of the LINER NGC 1052, which is the rst one where broad optical lines in polarized light have been observed. The 210 keV spectrum is very at, with a G observed . 0:1. A model where a nuclear source is partly or totally obscured by a screen of matter with column density ,10 23 cm 2 is the most convincing explanation for the observed atness. This agrees with the hypothesis that the LINERs are a population of low-luminosity AGN, to which the Seyfert unication scenario applies. The intrinsic spectral index is still rather at (G instrinsic . 1:01.4), as observed in a few type 2 Seyferts so far or predicted if the accretion occurs in an advection-dominated ow.
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Guainazzi et al. (1999) studied this question.