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Discern Misclassified flat-spectrum radio quasars from low-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-03-31 v1

Abstract

A sample of 312 low-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects (LBLs) and 694 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) with the parameters both redshift and γ\gamma-ray photon spectral index (Γγ\Gamma _\gamma) is compiled from the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) Catalog Data Release 2 (4LAC-DR2) from Fermi-LAT. The multi-wavelength data of the sample sources are downloaded from the Space Science Data Center (SSDC), and then match the corresponding gamma-ray data from 4FGL-DR2. The synchrotron radiation peak frequency and Compton dominance (CD) parameters of the sources are obtained by using a log-parabolic to fit the average-state multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution. A support vector machine (SVM) in the logLγ\log L_\gamma-Γγ\Gamma_\gamma frame is utilized to delineate the optimal boundary between FSRQs and LBLs sources. The 1σ\sigma position of the Gaussian fitting on the histograms of the Γγ\Gamma_\gamma, logνpeaksyn\log \nu^{syn}_{peak}, and CD parameter distributions are also introduced. In the criterion, 25 FSRQ candidates are selected from LBL sample sources. The optical spectral identification result confirms that 8 out of 13 candidate sources available with the optical spectral data exhibit the relationship of EW>5A˚EW > 5 \mathring{\mathrm{A}}.

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@article{arxiv.2503.22229,
  title  = {Discern Misclassified flat-spectrum radio quasars from low-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects},
  author = {S. Liang and W. G. Yang and Y. G. Zheng and S. J. Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.22229},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in ApJS, 25 pages, 19 figures, 4 table