Approximately one-third of existing γ-ray sources identified by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope are considered to be unassociated, with no known counterpart at other frequencies/wavelengths. These sources have been the subject of intense scrutiny and observational effort during the observatory's mission lifetime, and here we present a method of leveraging existing radio catalogs to examine these sources without the need for specific dedicated observations, which can be costly and complex. Via the inclusion of many sensitive low-frequency catalogs we specifically target steep spectrum sources such as pulsars. This work has found steep-spectrum radio sources contained inside 591 Fermi unassociated fields, with at least 21 of them being notable for having pulsar-like γ-ray properties as well. We also identify a number of other fields of interest based on various radio and γ-ray selections.
@article{arxiv.2212.05115,
title = {A Combined Radio Multi-Survey Catalog of Fermi Unassociated Sources},
author = {S. Bruzewski and F. K. Schinzel and G. B. Taylor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05115},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
13 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ