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Evolutionary behaviour of BL Lac objects

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We present analysis of a new flux limited sample of 72 X-ray selected BL Lacertae objects with known redshifts for 59 of them. We find the more X-ray dominated BL Lac having negative evolution with redshift, while intermediate objects show no evolution at all. X-ray dominated objects show higher X-ray luminosities and flatter X-ray spectra than the intermediate ones. We were also able to determine the redshift of 1517+656, which is part of our sample and is the optically most luminous X-ray selected BL Lac known so far.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9810154,
  title  = {Evolutionary behaviour of BL Lac objects},
  author = {Volker Beckmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9810154},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 Postscript figures, to appear in the proceedings of the conference "BL Lac Phenomenon" held in Turku, Finland, June 22-26, 1998