1999A&A...345...43B

Pointed ASCA observations as well as archival ROSAT data are used for a study of the X-ray emission of the three BAL Quasars LBQS 2212-1759, PG 1411+442, and PG 0043+039. All three objects are found to be X-ray quiet, possibly due to substantial intrinsic absorption with N_H>10²³cm^–2 but might have intrinsically a more typical spectral energy distribution. This picture is supported by explicit spectral fits to the combined ROSAT/ASCA data of the nearby bright object PG 1411+442. An analysis of the large number of radio-quiet quasars not detected in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey indicates that perhaps only a small fraction of BAL quasars have not been recognized before and that the number of intrinsically X-ray quiet quasars must be small.