BeppoSax Spectral Survey of soft X-ray selected BL Lacs

Details BeppoSax Spectral Survey of soft X-ray selected BL Lacs BeppoSax Spectral Survey of soft X-ray selected BL Lacs

1998-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804299v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages Latex, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A (uses psfig.tex, l-aa.sty)

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We present X-ray spectra obtained with BeppoSAX (Satellite per Astronomia X) of 10 BL Lac objects, selected from the Einstein Medium Sensitivity and Slew Surveys. We find that in about half of the objects a fit in the 0.1-10 keV range with a single power law and free absorption yields values of NH larger than the Galactic ones. In most of these cases, however, broken power law fits with NH fixed at the Galactic values yield an alternative, better description of the data and indicate a steepening of the spectrum with increasing energy. One object (1ES1101-232) is detected up to ~100 keV. Its spectral energy distribution (SED) peaks in the medium energy X-ray band. For each object we compute the peak frequency of the SED from multifrequency data. The spectral indices alpha_x in the 2-10 keV band (Fnu prop to nu^{-alpha_x}) are smaller (i.e. flatter spectrum) for objects with higher peak frequencies. We therefore confirm and extend to higher energies the behavior already known for X-ray selected BL Lac objects in the ROSAT band. We do not find spectral indices smaller than 1; however, the flat distribution of alpha_x and the correlation between alpha_x and peak frequency found from our data suggest that a number of objects may exist, which in the quiescent status have flatter spectrum and peak frequency in the hard X-ray range.

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