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We present the results of a spectral analysis of 5 Swift XRT and UVOT observations of the BL Lac object PKS 0548-322 carried out over the period April-June 2005. The X-ray flux of this high energy peaked BL Lac (HBL) source was found to be…

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 survey was designed to look for evidence of departures of the X-ray spectra from a…

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

BL Lacs are an enigmatic class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), characterized by the non-thermal continuum typically attributed to synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. Depending on the frequency location of the maxima of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Massaro , P. Giommi , G. Tosti , A. Cassetti , R. Nesci , M. Perri , D. Burrows , N. Gerehls

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…

At the end of July 2006, the blazar PKS 2155-304 (z=0.116) underwent a strong outburst observed at TeV energies by HESS (up to 17 Crab flux level at E > 200 GeV). The Swift satellite followed the evolution of the source for about one month.…

We present results from a deep spectral analysis of all the Swift observations of Mrk 421 from April 2006 to July 2006, when it reached its largest X-ray flux recorded until 2006. The peak flux was about 85 milli-Crab in the 2.0-10.0 keV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Tramacere , P. Giommi , M. Perri , F. Verrecchia , G. Tosti

We studied the temporal and spectral evolution of the synchrotron emission from the high energy peaked BL Lac object 1E 1207.9+3945. Two recent observations have been performed by the XMM-Newton and Swift satellites; we carried out X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Maselli , P. Giommi , M. Perri , R. Nesci , A. Tramacere , F. Massaro , M. Capalbi

Many of the extragalactic sources detected in $\gamma$ rays at TeV energies are BL Lac objects. In particular, they belong to the subclass of ``high frequency peaked BL Lacs" (HBLs), as their spectral energy distributions exhibit a first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Massaro , A. Tramacere , A. Cavaliere , M. Perri , P. Giommi

The TeV emitting high-mass X-ray binary system LSI+61303 was observed with the Swift satellite from early September 2006 to early January 2007. Many of these observations were contemporaneous with TeV observations. The data consist of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-18 J. Holder , A. Falcone , D. Morris

Blazars research is one of the hot topics of contemporary extra-galactic astrophysics. That is because these sources are the most abundant type of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources and are suspected to play a central role in multi-messenger…

The majority of the extragalactic sources yet detected at TeV photon energies belong to the class of "high frequency peaked BL Lacs" (HBLs) that exhibit a spectral energy distribution with a lower peak in the X-ray band. Such spectra are…

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

Curved broad-band spectral distributions of non-thermal sources like blazars are described well by a log-parabolic (LP) law where the second degree term measures the curvature. LP energy spectra can be obtained for relativistic electrons by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Massaro , A. Tramacere , M. Perri , P. Giommi , G. Tosti

We introduce a methodology for analysis of multiwavelength data from X-ray selected BL Lac (XBL) objects detected in the TeV regime. By assuming that the radio--through--X-ray flux from XBLs is nonthermal synchrotron radiation emitted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin Finke , Charles Dermer , Markus Boettcher

Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars with exceptional spectral properties. The non-thermal emission of the relativistic jet peaks in the spectral energy distribution (SED) plot with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-19 L. Foffano , E. Prandini , A. Franceschini , S. Paiano

We summarize broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar 1ES 1959+650, including optical R-band observations by the robotic telescopes Super-LOTIS and iTelescope, UV observations by Swift UVOT, X-ray observations by the Swift X-ray…

This work is a summary of the X-ray spectral studies of 29 TeV $\gamma$-ray emitting blazars observed with Swift/XRT, especially focusing on sources for which X-ray regime allows to study the low and the high energy ends of the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-28 Alicja Wierzcholska , Stefan Wagner

We present results from a long-term monitoring campaign on the TeV binary LSI +61 303 with VERITAS at energies above 500 GeV, and in the 2-10 keV hard X-ray bands with RXTE and Swift, sampling nine 26.5 day orbital cycles between September…

We report the multi-wavelength study for a high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac 1ES 1218+304 using near-simultaneous data obtained during the period from January 1, 2018, to May 31, 2021 (MJD 58119-59365) from various instruments including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Rishank Diwan , Raj Prince , Aditi Agarwal , Debanjan Bose , Pratik Majumdar , Aykut Özdönmez , Sunil Chandra , Rukaiya Khatoon , Ergün Ege

In order to provide a firm identification of the newly discovered Galactic TeV sources, a search for counterparts in a broad band from soft X-ray to soft gamma-rays is crucial as data in these wavebands allow us to distinguish between…

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