The broad band X-ray spectra of intermediate BL Lac objects
Siebert, J. · Brinkmann, W. · Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A. · Matsuoka, M.
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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 alphaᵣx. We briefly discuss the statistical properties of IBLs from the RGB sample and then focus on a detailed broad band spectral analysis of two objects, namely 1424+2401 and 1055+5644, which were observed with ASCA and SAX, respectively. In both cases the spectra are steep and we find significant curvature in 1424+2401 in the sense that the spectrum gets flatter at both low (< 1 keV) and high energies (> 5 keV). Our results are in line with the hypothesis of a continuous distribution of synchrotron peak frequencies among BL Lac objects.
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