Issue |
A&A
Volume 371, Number 2, May IV 2001
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Page(s) | 512 - 526 | |
Section | Cosmology (including clusters of galaxies) | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010412 | |
Published online | 15 May 2001 |
Extreme synchrotron BL Lac objects
Stretching the blazar sequence
1
Osservatorio Astron. di Brera, via Bianchi 46 Merate, Italy
2
Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 16 Milano, Italy
3
A.S.I., Science Data Center, c/o ESA-ESRIN, via G. Galilei, Frascati, Italy
4
SISSA/ISAS, via Beirut 2-4 Trieste, Italy
5
CASS, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093-0494, USA
6
Osservatorio Astron. di Brera, via Brera 28 Milano, Italy
7
Università dell'Insubria, via Valleggio 11 Como, Italy
Corresponding author: L. Costamante, costa@merate.mi.astro.it
Received:
1
December
2000
Accepted:
16
March
2001
We performed an observational program with the X-ray satellite
BeppoSAX, to study objects with extreme synchrotron peak frequencies
( keV).
Of the seven sources observed, five revealed or confirmed their
extreme nature.
Four showed peak frequencies in the range 1-5 keV,
while one (1ES 1426+428) displayed a flat power law spectrum
(
)
which locates its synchrotron peak at or above 100 keV.
This is the third source of this type ever found, after
Mkn 501 and 1ES 2344+514.
In the context of the whole blazar class, the broad band properties of
these objects confirm the scenario of a
synchrotron peak smoothly spanning the IR -X-ray range, which explains
the multi-frequency properties of the blazar class.
Our data also confirm the large
variability
which seems to characterize this class of sources, compared with lower
objects.
Given the high synchrotron peak energies, which flag the presence of high
energy electrons, these extreme BL Lacs are also good candidates for TeV
emission, and therefore good probes of the IR background.
Key words: BL Lacertae objects: individual: 1ES 0033+595, 1ES 0120+340, PKS 0548 / 322, GB 1114+203, 1ES 1218+304, 1ES 1426+428, H 2356 / 309 / X / rays: general / TeV: general
© ESO, 2001
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