Issue |
A&A
Volume 401, Number 3, April III 2003
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Page(s) | 927 - 938 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030184 | |
Published online | 01 April 2003 |
The HRX-BL Lac sample – Evolution of BL Lac objects*
1
Hamburger Sternwarte, Gojenbergsweg 112, 21029 Hamburg, Germany
2
INTEGRAL Science Data Centre, Chemin d'Écogia 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
3
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Sand 1, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
4
Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany
Corresponding author: V. Beckmann, Volker.Beckmann@obs.unige.ch
Received:
8
April
2002
Accepted:
12
February
2003
The unification of X-ray and radio selected BL Lacs
has been an outstanding problem in the blazar research in the past
years. Recent investigations have shown that the gap between the two
classes can be filled with intermediate objects and
that apparently all differences can be explained by mutual shifts of the peak frequencies of the synchrotron and inverse Compton component of the emission.
We study the consequences of this scheme using a new
sample of X-ray selected BL Lac objects comprising 104 objects
with and a mean redshift
. 77 BL Lacs, of
which the redshift could be determined for 64 (83%) objects, form a
complete sample.
The new data could not confirm our earlier result, drawn from a
subsample, that the negative evolution vanishes below a synchrotron
peak frequency
. The complete sample
shows negative evolution at the 2σ level (
).
We conclude that the observed properties
of the HRX BL Lac sample show typical behaviour for X-ray selected BL Lacs.
They support an evolutionary model, in which
flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) with high energetic jets evolve
towards low frequency peaked (mostly radio-selected) BL Lac objects
and later on to high frequency peaked (mostly X-ray selected) BL
Lacs.
Key words: BL Lacertae objects: general / X-rays: galaxies
© ESO, 2003
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