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We present new BeppoSAX LECS and MECS observations, covering the energy range 0.1 - 10 keV (observer's frame), of four BL Lacertae objects selected from the 1 Jy sample. All sources display a flat (alpha_x ~ 0.7) X-ray spectrum, which we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Padovani , L. Costamante , P. Giommi , G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti , A. Wolter

A long ($>100,000$ seconds) observation of the bright BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 has been carried out with the Narrow Field Instruments of the BeppoSAX satellite as part of the Science Verification Phase. The source was detected between 0.1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Giommi et al

We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the fastest rotating pulsar known: PSR B1937+21. The ~200 ks observation (78.5 ks MECS/34 ks LECS on-source time) allowed us to investigate with high statistical significance both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Nicastro , G. Cusumano , O. Loehmer , M. Kramer , L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , T. Mineo , W. Becker

Polarization measurements are presented for 52 radio-loud QSOs and BL Lac objects. For 9 highly polarized (p >3%) AGN, these are the first published polarization measurements. Of these 9, 7 are highly-polarized QSOs (HPQs), one is a BL Lac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Natarajan Visvanathan , Beverley J. Wills , .

We announce the detection of correlations on angular scales of $\ga10'$ between optically bright, high-redshift, radio-loud QSOs with diffuse X-ray emission seen by ROSAT in the {\it All-Sky Survey}. These correlations reach significance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Bartelmann , Peter Schneider , Guenther Hasinger

We present new spectropolarimetric observations of 8 radio-loud broad absorption line (BAL) quasars, and combine these new data with our previous spectropolarimetric atlases (of both radio-loud and radio-quiet objects) in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. DiPompeo , M. S. Brotherton , C. De Breuck

We report the first simultaneous measure of the X-ray broadband (0.1--200 keV) continuum and of the iron K-alpha fluorescent line profile in the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15. Our data confirms the ASCA detection of a skewed and redshifted…

We present the results of a multi-epoch observational campaign on the mini-broad absorption line quasar (mini-BAL QSO) PG 1126-041 performed with XMM-Newton from 2004 to 2009. Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy and simultaneous UV and X-ray…

We present two BeppoSAX observations of BL Lac (2200+420) as part of a multiwavelength campaign performed in 2000. The source was in different states of activity: in June, the X-ray spectrum was faint and hard (alpha sim 0.8), with positive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Ravasio , G. Tagliaferri , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , M. Boettcher , M. Sikora

We studied with BeppoSAX the infrared luminous galaxy IRAS 09104+4109 over a very wide X-ray band from 0.1 to 80 keV. Our observations indicate the dominance of a thermal component at energies below 8 keV, which we attribute to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Franceschini , L. Bassani , L. Cappi , G. L. Granato , G. Malaguti , E. Palazzi , M. Persic

I present the discovery of Balmer-line absorption from H alpha to H9 in iron low-ionizaton broad absorption line (FeLoBAL) quasar, SDSS~J172341.10+555340.5 by near-infrared spectroscopy with the Cooled Infrared Spectrograph and Camera for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Kentaro Aoki

We report on an observation of the Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasar PG 1115+080 performed with the XMM-Newton observatory. Spectral analysis reveals the second case of a relativistic X-ray absorbing outflow in a BAL quasar. The first case…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Chartas , W. N. Brandt , S. C. Gallagher

We report the discovery of a Broad Absorption Line (BAL) of \sim 10^4 km s-1 in width in the previously known BL Lac object PKS 0138-097, which we tentatively identified as a Mg II BAL. This is the first detection of a BAL, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Zhang Shaohua , Wang Huiyuan , Zhou Hongyan , Wang Tinggui , Jiang Peng

We present the broadband X-ray properties of four of the most X-ray luminous (L_X >= 10^{45} erg/s in the 0.5-2 keV band) radio-quiet QSOs found in the ROSAT Bright Survey. This uniform sample class, which explores the extreme end of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 Mirko Krumpe , Georg Lamer , Alex Markowitz , Amalia Corral

Broad Absorption Line Quasars (BAL QSOs) have been found to be associated with extremely compact radio sources. These reduced dimensions can be either due to projection effects or these objects might actually be intrinsically small.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-31 F. M. Montenegro-Montes , K. -H. Mack , C. R. Benn , R. Carballo , D. Dallacasa , J. I. González-Serrano , J. Holt , F. Jiménez-Luján

XMM-Newton observations of 29 high redshift (z>2) quasars, including seven radio-quiet, 16 radio-loud and six Broad Absorption Line (BAL) objects, are presented; due to the high redshifts, the rest-frame energy bands extend up to \~30-70…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. L. Page , J. N. Reeves , P. T. O'Brien , M. J. L. Turner

We present new BeppoSAX LECS, MECS, and PDS observations of four flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) having effective spectral indices alpha_ro and alpha_ox typical of high-energy peaked BL Lacs. Our sources have X-ray-to-radio flux ratios…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Padovani , L. Costamante , G. Ghisellini , P. Giommi , E. Perlman

We report the identification of the ROSAT all-sky survey source 1RXS J154814.5-452845as new intermediate polar and present the results from follow-up optical and X-ray observations. The source shows pulsations with a period of 693 s both in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Haberl , C. Motch , F. -J. Zickgraf

The nearby galaxy M33 was observed by the imaging X-ray instruments on-board BeppoSAX. Two observations at different phases of the 105.9 day intensity cycle of the luminous central source X-8 failed to reveal the expected modulation,…

We present in this paper optical and X-ray follow up observations for three X-ray selected objects extracted from the ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole survey which is a flux-limited, completely identified survey. All three objects have X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Wolter , I. M. Gioia , J. P. Henry , C. R. Mullis