Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-09-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
36 pages, 26 ps figures, 4 tables - A web page dedicated to this work is available at http://www.asdc.asi.it/blazars/ - To app
Scientific paper
As a special contribution to the proceedings of the BeppoSAX workshop dedicated to blazar astrophysics we present a catalog of 157 X-ray spectra and the broad-band Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of 84 blazars observed by BeppoSAX during its first five years of operations. The SEDs have been built by combining BeppoSAX LECS, MECS and PDS data with (mostly) non-simultaneous multi-frequency photometric data, obtained from NED and from other large databases, including the GSC2 and the 2MASS surveys. All BeppoSAX data have been taken from the public archive and have been analysed in a uniform way. For each source we present a SED plot, and for every BeppoSAX observation we give the best fit parameters of the spectral model that best describes the data. The energy where the maximum of the synchrotron power is emitted spans at least six orders of magnitudes ranging from ~ 0.1 eV to over 100 keV. A wide variety of X-ray spectral slopes have been seen depending on whether the synchrotron or inverse Compton component, or both, are present in the X-ray band. The wide energy bandpass of BeppoSAX allowed us to detect, and measure with good accuracy, continuous spectral curvature in many objects whose synchrotron radiation extends to the X-ray band. This convex curvature, which is described by a logarithmic parabola law better than other models, may be the spectral signature of a particle acceleration process that becomes less and less efficient as the particles energy increases. Finally some brief considerations about other statistical properties of the sample are presented.
Capalbi Milvia
Fiocchi Mariateresa
Giommi Paolo
Massaro Enrico
Memola Elisabetta
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