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The latest source catalog of the Fermi-LAT telescope contains more than 7000 $\gamma$-ray sources at GeV energies, with the two dominant source classes thought to be blazars and rotation-powered pulsars. Our target is the identification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-09 Martin G. F. Mayer , Werner Becker

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

We report the detection of two new gamma-ray sources in the Fermi-LAT sky (Pass 8) at energies higher than 20 GeV, and confirmed at lower energies, using a source detection tool based on the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm. One of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 R. Campana , A. Maselli , E. Bernieri , E. Massaro

The Fermi fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) data release 3 (4LAC-DR3) contains 3407 AGNs, out of which 755 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 1379 are BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs), 1208 are blazars of unknown (BCUs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Aditi Agarwal

We selected a sample of 437 BL Lac objects, taken from the RomaBZCat catalogue, for which spectroscopic information and SDSS photometry is available. We propose a new classification of BL Lacs in which the sources' type is not defined only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Enrico Massaro , Roberto Nesci , Silvia Piranomonte

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been continuously providing good quality survey data of the entire sky in the high energy range from 30 MeV to 500 GeV and above since August 2008. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 A. Pathania , K. K. Singh , S. K. Singh , A. Tolamatti , B. B. Singh , K. K. Yadav

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first 3 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. This catalog complements the Second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 David Paneque , Jean Ballet , Toby Burnett , Seth Digel , Pascal Fortin , Juergen Knoedlseder

The identification of low-energy counterparts for gamma-ray sources is one of the biggest challenge in modern gamma-ray astronomy. Recently, we developed and successfully applied a new association method to recognize gamma-ray blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Massaro , A. Paggi , R. D'Abrusco , G. Tosti

Using survey data, we have re-evaluated the correlation of flat spectrum radio sources with EGRET sources in the Northern sky. A likelihood analysis incorporating the radio and X-ray properties and the Gamma-ray source localization is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Sowards-Emmerd , Roger W. Romani , Peter F. Michelson

Our present knowledge of the properties of blazars mostly comes from small samples of bright objects, especially regarding studies on their cosmological evolution. Statistically well defined and completely identified samples of faint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Sara Turriziani , Bernardo Fraga , Paolo Giommi

The International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) has been surveying the sky above 20 keV since its launch in 2002 providing new insights into the nature of the sources that populate our Universe at soft gamma-ray energies. The…

The multi-frequency Sedentary Survey is a flux limited, statistically well-defined sample of highly X-ray dominated BL Lacertae objects (HBLs) which includes 150 sources. In this paper, the third of the series, we report the results of a…

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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

Over the last decade more than five thousand gamma-ray sources were detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Given the positional uncertainty of the telescope, nearly 30% of these sources remain…

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

Blazars, one of the most extreme class of active galaxies, constitute so far the largest known population of $\gamma$-ray sources and their number is continuously growing in the Fermi catalogs. However in the latest release of the Fermi…

We present the Swift X-ray Cluster Survey (SWXCS) catalog obtained using archival data from the X-ray telescope (XRT) on board the Swift satellite acquired from 2005 to 2012, extending the first release of the SWXCS. The catalog provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 Teng Liu , Paolo Tozzi , Elena Tundo , Alberto Moretti , Piero Rosati , Jun-Xian Wang , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Sergio Campana , Mauro Giavalisco

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected thousands of sources since its launch in 2008, with many remaining unidentified. Some of these point sources may arise from source confusion. Specifically, there could be extended sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-07 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Samuel T. Spencer , Dmitry Malyshev , Tim Unbehaun

Blazars are jet-dominated extragalactic objects characterized by the emission of strongly variable non-thermal radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore, the study of blazars (and in general of radio loud AGN) through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Monte , S. Raino , F. Gargano , S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , J. Leon Tavares , G. Polenta

We present the Second Palermo Swift-BAT hard X-ray catalogue obtained by analysing data acquired in the first 54 months of the Swift mission. Using our software dedicated to the analysis of data from coded mask telescopes, we analysed the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , A. Segreto , C. Ferrigno , A. Maselli , B. Sbarufatti , P. Romano , G. Chincarini , P. Giommi , N. Masetti , A. Moretti , P. Parisi , G. Tagliaferri