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Register a new userConstraining X-ray emission in HBL blazars using multiwavelength observations
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Alicja Wierzcholska
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2020
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Physics
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The X-ray spectrum of extreme HBL type blazars is located in the synchrotron branch of the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED), at energies below the peak. A joint fit of the extrapolated X-ray spectra together with a host galaxy template allows characterizing the synchrotron branch in the SED. The X-ray spectrum is usually characterized either with a pure or a curved power-law model. In the latter case, however, it is hard to distinguish an intrinsic curvature from excess absorption. In this paper, we focus on five well-observed blazars: 1ES 0229+200, PKS 0548-322, RX J1136+6737, 1ES 1741+196, 1ES 2344+514. We constrain the infrared-to-X-ray emission of these five blazars using a model that is characterized by the host galaxy, spectral curvature, absorption, and ultraviolet excess to separate these spectral features. In the case of four sources: 1ES 0229+200, PKS 0548-322, 1ES 1741+196, 1ES 2344+514 the spectral fit with the atomic neutral hydrogen from the Leiden Argentina Bonn Survey result in a significant UV excess present in the broadband spectral energy distribution. Such excess can be interpreted as an additional component, for example, a blue bump. However, in order to describe spectra of these blazars without such excess, additional absorption to the atomic neutral hydrogen from the Leiden Argentina Bonn Survey is needed.
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