X-Raying the MOJAVE Sample of Compact Extragalactic Radio Jets
Abstract
The MOJAVE sample is the first large radio-selected, VLBI-monitored AGN sample for which complete X-ray spectral information is being gathered. We report on the status of Swift survey observations which complement the available archival X-ray data at 0.3-10 keV and in the UV with its XRT and UVOT instruments. Many of these 133 radio-brightest AGN in the northern sky are now being observed for the first time at these energies. These and complementary other multi-wavelength observations provide a large statistical sample of radio-selected AGN whose spectral energy distributions are measured from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths, available at the beginning of GLAST operations in 2008. Here, we report the X-ray spectral characteristics of 36 of these previously unobserved MOJAVE sources. In addition, the number of MOJAVE sources detected by the BAT instrument in the hard X-ray band is growing: we report the detection of five new blazars with BAT.
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@article{arxiv.0704.1465,
title = {X-Raying the MOJAVE Sample of Compact Extragalactic Radio Jets},
author = {M. Kadler and G. Sato and J. Tueller and R. M. Sambruna and C. B. Markwardt and P. Giommi and N. Gehrels},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.1465},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, to be published in "The Proceedings of the First International GLAST Symposium", February 5-8, 2007, Stanford University, AIP, Eds. S. Ritz, P. F. Michelson, and C. Meegan