Mining the Blazar Sky
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We present the results of our methods to "mine" the blazar sky, i.e., select blazar candidates with very high efficiency. These are based on the cross-correlation between public radio and X-ray catalogs and have resulted in two surveys, the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS) and the "Sedentary" BL Lac survey. We show that data mining is vital to select sizeable, deep samples of these rare active galactic nuclei and we touch upon the identification problems which deeper surveys will face.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012357,
title = {Mining the Blazar Sky},
author = {Paolo Padovani and Paolo Giommi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012357},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the Workshop "Mining the Sky", Munich, August 2000, ESO Astrophysics Symposia, in press. Postscript file also available at http://www.stsci.edu/~padovani/survey.html