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Radio observations of strongly lensed objects are valuable as cosmological probes. Lensed radio sources have proven difficult to identify in large part due to the limited depth and angular resolution of the previous generation of radio sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-07 Michael N. Martinez , Yjan A. Gordon , Keith Bechtol , Gillian Cartwright , Peter S. Ferguson , Miranda Gorsuch

Utilizing the latest and the most sensitive radio and optical catalogs, we completed a new blazar candidate catalog, Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS), which includes 88,211 sources located at declination $\delta > -40^{\circ}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-04 Ryosuke Itoh , Yousuke Utsumi , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Kouji Ohta , Akihiro Doi , Tomoki Morokuma , Koji S. Kawabata , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka

We highlight a representative sample of active galactic nuclei selected independent of orientation. The defining characteristic of the selection is sophisticated matching between the $0.1<z<0.6$ Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Jessie Runnoe , Todd Boroson

We present a sample of 43 submillimeter sources detected (at >3 sigma), drawn from our program to follow-up optically faint radio sources with SCUBA. These sources already have associated radio and in many cases optical identifications, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Scott C. Chapman , Geraint F. Lewis , Douglas Scott , Colin Borys , Eric A. Richards

We have searched the archived, pointed ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter data for blazars by correlating the WGACAT X-ray database with several publicly available radio catalogs, restricting our candidate list to serendipitous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Landt , P. Padovani , E. Perlman , P. Giommi , H. Bignall , A. Tzioumis

Context. The gamma-ray emitting source WISE J141046.00+740511.2 has been associated with a Fermi-LAT detection by crossmatching with Swift/XRT data. It has shown all the canonical observational characteristics of a BL Lac source, including…

We employ an efficient method for identifying gamma-ray sources across the entire sky, leveraging advanced algorithms from Fermi p y, and cleverly utilizing the Galactic diffuse background emission model to partition the entire sky into 72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Y. C. Xiang , P. Feng , X. F. Lan

As a service to the community, we have compiled radio frequency spectra from the literature for all sources within the VLA Low Frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) that are brighter than 15 Jy at 74 MHz. Over 160 references were used to maximize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. F. Helmboldt , N. E. Kassim , A. S. Cohen , W. M. Lane , T. J. Lazio

We present an analysis of high energy (HE; 0.1-300 GeV) gamma-ray observations of 1FGL J1227.9-4852 with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, follow-up radio observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Giant Metrewave Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-27 A. B. Hill , A. Szostek , S. Corbel , F. Camilo , R. H. D. Corbet , R. Dubois , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , E. C. Ferrara , M. Kerr , E. Koerding , D. Kozieł , Ł. Stawarz

We investigate the radio properties of a complete sample of nearby, massive, X-ray bright elliptical and S0 galaxies. Our sample contains 18 galaxies with ROSAT All-Sky Survey X-ray fluxes Fx_(0.1-2.4 keV) > 3 x 10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2, within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Robert Dunn , Steve Allen , Greg Taylor , Kathleen Shurkin , Gianfranco Gentile , Andy Fabian , Chris Reynolds

Analysis is presented on 15 months of data taken with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for 11 non-blazar AGNs, including 7 FRI radio galaxies and 4 FRII radio sources consisting of 2 FRII radio galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

$\it{Context.}$ Various high-energy phenomena in the Universe are associated with blazars, powerful active galaxies with jets pointing to the observer. Novel results relating blazars to high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays, and even possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 Maria Kudenko , Sergey Troitsky

An equivalent width (EW) based classification may cause the erroneous judgement to the flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lacerate objects (BL Lac) due to the diluting the line features by dramatic variations in the jet continuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu

Blazars are a highly-variable, radio-loud subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In order to better understand such objects we must be able to easily identify candidate blazars from the growing population of unidentified sources. Working…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip S. Cowperthwaite , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by emission from blazars, a peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Many of the $\gamma$-ray sources included in Fermi -Large Area Telescope Third Source catalog (3FGL) are classified…

We calculate the expected number of strongly lensed radio sources in a sample of 6500 sources observed with the Very Large Array as part of the Cosmic Lens All Sky Survey (CLASS) during the first two sessions of its observations. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Asantha R. Cooray

The parsec-scale radio properties of 232 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), most of which are blazars, detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , F. K. Schinzel

The gravitational lens system CLASS B2108+213 has two lensed images separated by 4.56 arcsec. Such a wide image separation suggests that the lens is either a massive galaxy, or is composed of a group of galaxies. To investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. More , J. P. McKean , T. W. B. Muxlow , R. W. Porcas , C. D. Fassnacht , L. V. E. Koopmans

In order to study the status and the possible evolution of clusters of galaxies at intermediate redshifts (z ~ 0.1 - 0.3), as well as their spatial correlation and relationship with the local environment, we built a sample of candidate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Zanichelli , M. Vigotti , R. Scaramella , G. Grueff , G. Vettolani

The Fermi Large Area Telescope, in collaboration with several groups from the radio community, have had marvellous success at uncovering new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). In fact, MSPs now make up a sizable fraction of the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson