The discovery of high power - high synchrotron peak blazars

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2012-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/1202.2236v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages, 6 colour figures, accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We study the quasi-simultaneous near-IR, optical, UV, and X-ray photometry of eleven gamma-ray selected blazars for which redshift estimates larger than 1.2 have been recently provided. Four of these objects turn out to be high-power blazars with the peak of their synchrotron emission between ~ 3 x 10^15 and ~ 10^16 Hz, and therefore of a kind predicted to exist but never seen before. This discovery has important implications for our understanding of physical processes in blazars, including the so-called "blazar sequence", and might also help constraining the extragalactic background light through gamma-ray absorption since two sources are strongly detected even in the 10 - 100 GeV Fermi-LAT band. Based on our previous work and their high powers, these sources are very likely high-redshift flat-spectrum radio quasars with their emission lines swamped by the non-thermal continuum.

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