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We present BeppoSAX LECS, MECS, and PDS spectra of eleven X-ray selected BL Lacertae objects. Combining these sources with the ones presented elsewhere we have a sample of 21 BL Lacs from the Einstein Medium Sensitivity and Einstein Slew…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Beckmann , A. Wolter , A. Celotti , L. Costamante , G. Ghisellini , T. Maccacaro , G. Tagliaferri

A database of radio-quiet quasars detected with ROSAT is presented containing 846 quasars seen in the All-Sky Survey and/or in pointed PSPC observations. About 70% of the objects have been detected in X-rays for the first time. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Yuan , W. Brinkmann , J. Siebert , W. Voges

We present the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalogue (RASS-BSC, revision 1RXS) derived from the all-sky survey performed during the first half year (1990/91) of the ROSAT mission. 18,811 sources are catalogued (i) down to a limiting…

Utilizing the latest and the most sensitive radio and optical catalogs, we completed a new blazar candidate catalog, Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS), which includes 88,211 sources located at declination $\delta > -40^{\circ}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-04 Ryosuke Itoh , Yousuke Utsumi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Kouji Ohta , Akihiro Doi , Tomoki Morokuma , Koji S. Kawabata , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of the optical counterparts of 47 southern radio sources from the candidate International Celestial Reference Catalogue (ICRC), as part of a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 O. Titov , D. L. Jauncey , H. M. Johnston , R. W. Hunstead , L. Christensen

X-ray luminous radio-quiet high redshift QSOs are rare and can be used for the investigation of several important astronomical questions. We have conducted a large area survey for radio-quiet high redshift QSOs in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Xue-Bing Wu , Norbert Bade , Volker Beckmann

We investigate the nature of low-luminosity radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RLAGN) selected from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) first data release (DR1). Using optical, mid-infrared, and radio data, we have conservatively…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-01 J. Chilufya , M. J. Hardcastle , J. C. S. Pierce , J. H. Croston , B. Mingo , X. Zheng , R. D. Baldi , H. J. A. Röttgering

The Rosat - Green Bank BL Lac sample consists of 119 objects and smoothly bridges the gap between the previously disparate subclasses of radio- and X-ray-selected objects. Further study of this sample will provide useful constraints to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen , R. I. Kollgaard , E. D. Feigelson

Context. The study of BL Lac objects (BLL) detected in gamma-rays gives insights on the acceleration mechanisms in play in such systems and is also a valuable tool to constrain the density of the extragalactic background light. As their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-08 Santiago Pita , Paolo Goldoni , Catherine Boisson , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Michael Punch , Lucie Gérard , François Hammer , Lex Kaper , Hélène Sol

We present and discuss polarimetric observations of 182 targets drawn from an optically selected sample of 240 probable BL Lac candidates out of the SDSS compiled by Collinge et al. (2005). In contrast to most other BL Lac candidate samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Heidt , K. Nilsson

We present an all-sky catalogue that aligns and overlays the ROSAT HRI, RASS, PSPC and WGA X-ray catalogues and the NVSS, FIRST and SUMSS radio catalogues onto the optical APM and USNO-A catalogues. Objects presented are those APM/USNO-A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Flesch , M. J. Hardcastle

Prompted by a recent claim by Barrows et al. that X-ray AGN are often found significantly offset from the centres of their host galaxies, we have looked for examples of compact radio sources which are offset from the optical centroids of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Chris J. Skipper , Ian W. A. Browne

High-energy observations of extreme BL Lac objects, such as 1ES0229+200 or 1ES 0347-121, recently focused interest both for blazar and jet physics and for the implication on the extragalactic background light and intergalactic magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-17 F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli

As a pilot study for the first all-sky radio survey at short wavelengths, we have observed 1216 sq. deg. of the southern sky at 18GHz (16mm) using a novel wide-band (3.4GHz bandwidth) analogue correlator on one baseline of the Australia…

BL Lac objects are low--power active nuclei exhibiting a variety of peculiar properties that are caused by the presence of a relativistic jet and orientation effects. We present here adaptive optics near-IR images at high spatial resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Falomo , E. Pian , A. Treves , G. Giovannini , T. Venturi , A. Moretti , C. Arcidiacono , J. Farinato , R. Ragazzoni , E. Diolaiti , M. Lombini , F. Tavecchio , R. Brast , E. Marchetti , S. Tordo

The 2 cm VLBA Survey observed since 1994 a set of ~170 Quasars, BL Lac objects, and radio galaxies, selected to be representative of the compact AGN radio population. This effort was continued as the MOJAVE project, where a statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Eduardo Ros

We have used the Very Large Array (VLA) to conduct a survey for radio continuum emission in the sample of 52 Seyfert nuclei selected from the optical spectroscopic galaxy catalog of Ho, Filippenko, and Sargent. This Seyfert sample is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Luis C. Ho , James S. Ulvestad

We present the last chapter of a spectroscopy program aimed at deriving the redshift or a lower limit to the redshift of BL Lac objects using medium resolution spectroscopy. Here we report new spectra for 33 BL Lac object candidates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marco Landoni , Renato Falomo , Aldo Treves , Boris Sbarufatti , Martina Barattini , Roberto Decarli , Jari Kotilainen

Only BL Lac objects have been detected as extragalactic sources of very high energy (E > 300 GeV) gamma rays. Using the Whipple Observatory Gamma-ray Telescope, we have attempted to detect more BL Lacs using three approaches. First, we have…

We present results of an ongoing program at the ESO VLT for spectroscopy of BL Lac objects lacking a firm redshift estimate and here we report on 15 objects. For 11 sources we confirm the BL Lac classification, and we determine new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-21 B. Sbarufatti , S. Ciprini , J. Kotilainen , R. Decarli , A. Treves , A. Veronesi , R. Falomo