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We examined 134 Chandra observations of the population of X-ray sources associated with globular clusters (GCs) in the central region of M31. These are expected to be X-ray binary systems (XBs), consisting of a neutron star or black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Barnard , M. Garcia , S. S. Murray

We selected a sample of 437 BL Lac objects, taken from the RomaBZCat catalogue, for which spectroscopic information and SDSS photometry is available. We propose a new classification of BL Lacs in which the sources' type is not defined only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Enrico Massaro , Roberto Nesci , Silvia Piranomonte

This paper describes the database of optical spectra of BL Lacertae (BLL) objects ZBLLAC available at the URL https://web.oapd.inaf.it/zbllac/. At the present date, it contains calibrated spectra for 295 BLL. For about 35% of them, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 M. Landoni , R. Falomo , S. Paiano , A. Treves

The multi-frequency Sedentary Survey is a flux limited, statistically well-defined sample of highly X-ray dominated BL Lacertae objects (HBLs) which includes 150 sources. In this paper, the third of the series, we report the results of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Piranomonte , M. Perri , P. Giommi , H. Landt , P. Padovani

A sample of 312 low-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects (LBLs) and 694 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) with the parameters both redshift and $\gamma$-ray photon spectral index ($\Gamma _\gamma$) is compiled from the active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 S. Liang , W. G. Yang , Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang

BL Lac objects are active nuclei, hosted in massive elliptical galaxies, the emission of which is dominated by a relativistic jet closely aligned with the line of sight. This implies the existence of a parent population of sources with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-26 Renato Falomo , Elena Pian , Aldo Treves

We present new optical and near-IR spectroscopy as well as new high dynamic range, arcsecond-resolution VLA radio maps of BL Lacs from the complete radio-selected "1 Jansky" (1Jy) sample (RBLs) for which such data were not previously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Travis A. Rector , John T. Stocke

We present recent X-ray observations of intermediate BL Lac objects (IBLs), i.e. BL Lacs which are located between high-energy and low-energy peaked BL Lac objects with respect to alpha_rx. We briefly discuss the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Siebert , W. Brinkmann , S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen , M. Matsuoka

We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) candidates identified from 2860 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily selected to have quasi-featureless optical spectra and low…

We present recent ROSAT, ASCA and SAX observations of intermediate BL Lac objects (IBLs), i.e. BL Lacs which are located between high-energy and low-energy peaked BL Lac objects with respect to alpha_rx. Both the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Siebert , W. Brinkmann , S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen

We present an analysis of the spectral properties observed in X-rays from active galactic nucleus BL Lacertae using RXTE, Suzaku, ASCA, BeppoSAX, and Swift observations. The total time covered by these observations is approximately 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Lev Titarchuk , Elena Seifina

We study the X-ray spectra of 114 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) using the hardness ratios as given in the WGA catalogue of ROSAT sources. This sample includes all WGA FSRQ with high-quality data and comprises about 20 per cent of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Fabrizio Fiore

Blazars are the established sources of an intense and variable non-thermal radiation extending from radio wavelengths up to HE and VHE gamma-rays. Understanding the spectral evolution of blazars in selected frequency ranges, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-24 Alicja Wierzcholska , Michał Ostrowski , Łukasz Stawarz , Stefan Wagner , Marcus Hauser

Since their discovery, Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) have attracted attention due to their combination of extreme luminosities and extra-nuclear locations. However, they are a fairly rare phenomenon, and attempts to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 D. J. Walton , J. C. Gladstone , T. P. Roberts , A. C. Fabian

We report results from {\it XMM-Newton} observations of thirteen X-ray bright BL Lacertae objects, selected from the {\it Einstein} Slew Survey sample. The spectra are generally well fit by power-law models, with four objects having hard…

BL Lacertae is a blazar known for its high flux variability and occasional broadband flares of unknown origin. It was in an extended flaring state from July 2020 until the end of 2021, making it an ideal candidate to study spectral and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 A. Priyana Noel , Alicja Wierzcholska , Raj Prince

Most of the extragalactic sources detected at TeV energies are BL Lac objects. They belong to the subclass of "high frequency peaked BL Lacs" (HBLs) exhibiting spectral energy distributions with a lower energy peak in the X-ray band; this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Massaro , A. Paggi , M. Elvis , A. Cavaliere

We present a new catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the Galaxy. The catalogue contains source names, coordinates, source types, fluxes, distances, system parameters, and other characteristic properties of 349 LMXBs, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-28 A. Avakyan , M. Neumann , A. Zainab , V. Doroshenko , J. Wilms , A. Santangelo

We put forward a scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars, BL Lacs, low synchrotron, or high synchrotron peaked objects according to a varying combination of Doppler boosted radiation from the jet, emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , G. Polenta , S. Turriziani , V. D'Elia , S. Piranomonte

We have searched the archived, pointed ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter data for blazars by correlating the WGACAT X-ray database with several publicly available radio catalogs, restricting our candidate list to serendipitous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Landt , P. Padovani , E. Perlman , P. Giommi , H. Bignall , A. Tzioumis