Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-10-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, Astronomy & Astrophysics, in press
Scientific paper
We investigate the properties of the host galaxies of X-ray selected (high frequency peaked) BL Lac objects using a large and homogeneous data set of high spatial resolution R-band observations of 52 BL Lacs in the EMSS and Slew samples. The redshift distribution of the BL Lacs ranges from z = 0.04 to z>0.7, with average and median redshifts z = 0.26 and z = 0.24, respectively. Eight objects are at unknown redshift. We are able to resolve 45 objects out of the 52 BL Lacs. For all the well-resolved sources, we find the host to be a luminous elliptical galaxy. In a few cases a disk is not ruled out but an elliptical model is still preferred. The average absolute magnitude of the host galaxies is
Falomo Renato
Kotilainen Jari K.
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