Blazars in hard X-rays

Details Blazars in hard X-rays Blazars in hard X-rays

2009-02-11

arxiv.org/abs/0902.1984v1

AIP Conf.Proc.1126:131-136,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Invited talk at the Simbol-X symposium held in Paris, 2-5 December, 2008. 6 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3149394

Although blazars are thought to emit most of their luminosity in the gamma-ray band, there are subclasses of them very prominent in hard X-rays. These are the best candidates to be studied by Simbol-X. They are at the extremes of the blazar sequence, having very small or very high jet powers. The former are the class of TeV emitting BL Lacs, whose synchrotron emission often peaks at tens of keV or more. The latter are the blazars with the most powerful jets and have high black hole masses accreting at high (i.e. close to Eddington) rates. These sources are predicted to have their high energy peak even below the MeV band, and therefore are very promising candidates to be studied with Simbol-X.

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