We observed with the NuSTAR satellite 3 blazars at z>2, detected in gamma-rays by Fermi/LAT and in the soft X-rays, but not yet observed above 10 keV. The flux and slope of their X-ray continuum, together with Fermi/LAT data allows us to estimate their total electromagnetic output and peak frequency. For some of them we can study the source in different states, and investigate the main cause of the observed different spectral energy distribution. We then collected all blazars at redshift greater than 2 observed by NuSTAR, and confirm that these hard and luminous X-ray blazars are among the most powerful persistent sources in the Universe. We confirm the relation between the jet power and the disk luminosity, extending it at the high energy end.
@article{arxiv.1906.02955,
title = {A NuSTAR view of powerful gamma-ray loud blazars},
author = {G. Ghisellini and M. L. Perri and G. Costamante and G. Tagliaferri and T. Sbarrato and S. Campitiello and G. Madejski and F. Tavecchio and G. Ghirlanda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.02955},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
10 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in A&A