THE X-RAY PROPERTIES OF A WELL STUDIED EXTREMELY RED OBJECT

Strongly dust obscured galaxies are believed to hold the key to understandinggalaxy evolution. This has only been revealed over the past few years, withstudies in different wavelength windows (NIR, submm and Xrays) discovering animportant population of dusty galaxies. Characterizing these sources, oftenidentified through their extreme opticalNIR colours, has been so far hamperedby their faintness and large distances. Here we propose to perform the firstdetailed Xray study of an Extremely Red Object, by observing the nearest andmost well studied ERO to date. Unlike any other galaxy in the local Universe,this source offers a unique opportunity for a detailed Xray study of an ERO,necessary to begin understanding the more distant dusty galaxy population. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]