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Title:
A Search for Synchrotron X-Ray Emission in Radio Quasars
Authors:
Landt, Hermine; Padovani, Paolo; Giommi, Paolo; Perri, Matteo; Cheung, Chi C.
Affiliation:
AA(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138), AB(European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany), AC(ASI Science Data Center, c/o ESRIN, via G. Galilei, I-00044 Frascati, Italy), AD(ASI Science Data Center, c/o ESRIN, via G. Galilei, I-00044 Frascati, Italy), AE(Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 676, Issue 1, pp. 87-100. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
03/2008
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Galaxies: Active, Galaxies: Quasars: General, Radiation Mechanisms: Nonthermal, X-Rays: Galaxies
DOI:
10.1086/527531
Bibliographic Code:
2008ApJ...676...87L

Abstract

This paper presents XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray spectroscopy of 10 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) that are candidates to have an X-ray spectrum dominated by jet synchrotron emission. In all these FSRQ, which are less strongly relativistically beamed than blazars, a considerable contribution from a power-law component similar to that present in radio-quiet quasars is required to explain the observed X-ray fluxes and X-ray spectral slopes. As in radio-quiet quasars, their relatively high optical/UV fluxes can be accounted for by a significant contribution from thermal accretion disk emission. The lack of success in finding radio quasars with synchrotron X-rays is attributed to the adopted selection criteria, which were based on the multiwavelength flux ratios of BL Lacertae objects. A refined selection technique, which also involves radio imaging, is proposed to search for these important candidates with the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). On the other hand, the discovered FSRQ with their strong accretion disk signatures are expected to be important probes for studying the poorly understood accretion disk-jet connection.
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