Spectroscopy of six X-ray-selected BL Lacertae candidates.
Abstract
Results of a continuing program aimed at extending the small list of X-ray-selected BL Lac objects are reported. High-quality spectra have been obtained of six faint blue objects that lie within the positional error boxes of X-ray sources discovered serendipitously by the Einstein Observatory. Three of the objects are found to be previously uncataloged low-red-shift quasi-stellar objects, including one formerly suggested as BL Lac candidate. Two are faint galactic stars, while the final object has a featureless spectrum, and thus remains a candidate. Although X-ray selection may ultimately be an effective means of discovering faint BL Lac objects, such sources are evidently rare at the X-ray flux levels attainable by the Einstein Observatory.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- November 1986
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1986PASP...98.1129M
- Keywords:
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- Bl Lacertae Objects;
- Quasars;
- X Ray Stars;
- Galactic Nuclei;
- Line Spectra;
- Astrophysics