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The extragalactic $\gamma$-rays sky observed by Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is dominated by blazars. In the fourth release of the Fermi-LAT Point Source Catalog (4FGL), are sources showing a multifrequency behavior similar to that of…

The classifications of Fermi-LAT unassociated sources are studied using multiple machine learning (ML) methods. The update data from 4FGL-DR3 are divided into high Galactic latitude (HGL, Galactic latitude $|b|>10^\circ$) and low Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 K. R. Zhu , J. M. Chen , Y. G. Zheng , L. Zhang

The classification of gamma-ray-detected blazar candidates of uncertain type (BCU) is a relevant problem in extragalactic gamma-ray astronomy. Here we report the optical spectroscopic characterization, using two 3-4~m class telescopes,…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is producing the most detailed inventory of the gamma-ray sky to date. Despite tremendous achievements approximately 25% of all Fermi extragalactic sources in the Second Fermi LAT Catalogue (2FGL) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 T. Hassan , N. Mirabal , J. L. Contreras , I. Oya

Despite the fact that blazars constitute the rarest class among active galactic nuclei (AGNs) they are the largest known population of associated $\gamma$-ray sources. Many of the $\gamma$-ray objects listed in the Fermi-Large Area…

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…

In the recently published 3FGL catalogue, the Fermi/LAT collaboration reports the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission from 3034 sources obtained after four years of observations. The nature of 1010 of those sources is unknown, whereas 2023…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 J. Lefaucheur , S. Pita

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL) lists over 5000 gamma-ray sources with statistical significance above 4$\sigma$. About 23% of the sources listed in this catalog are unidentified/unassociated gamma-ray sources…

The study of machine learning (ML) techniques for the autonomous classification of astrophysical sources is of great interest, and we explore its applications in the context of a multifrequency data-frame. We test the use of supervised ML…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Bruno Arsioli , Pedro Dedin

The third Fermi source catalog lists 3033 gamma-ray sources above $4\sigma$ significance. More than 30% are classified as either unidentified/unassociated Gamma-ray sources (UGSs), with about 20% classified as Blazar candidates of uncertain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-26 Marchesini , E. J. , Peña-Herazo , H. A. , Álvarez Crespo , N. , Ricci , F. , M. Negro , Milisavljevic , D. , Massaro , F. , Masetti , N. , Landoni , M. , Chavushyan , V. , D'Abrusco , R. , Jiménez-Bailón , E. , La Franca , F. , Paggi , A. , Smith , H. A. , Tosti , G.

We conduct X-ray spectral fits on 184 likely counterparts to Fermi-LAT 3FGL unassociated sources. Characterization and classification of these sources allows for more complete population studies of the high-energy sky. Most of these X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Stephen Kerby , Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D. Falcone , Michael C. Stroh , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Jamie A. Kennea , Joseph Colosimo

We apply a number of statistical and machine learning techniques to classify and rank gamma-ray sources from the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Source Catalog (3FGL), according to their likelihood of falling into the two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson , H. Xu , P. L. H. Yu , D. Salvetti , M. Marelli , A. D. Falcone

Classification of sources is one of the most important tasks in astronomy. Sources detected in one wavelength band, for example using gamma rays, may have several possible associations in other wavebands, or there may be no plausible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-19 Aakash Bhat , Dmitry Malyshev

The changing-look blazars (CLBs) are the blazars that their optical spectral lines at different epochs show a significant changes and present a clear transition between the standard FSRQ and BL Lac types. The changing-look phenomena in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 Shi-Ju Kang , Shan-Shan Ren , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu

The use of Bayesian neural networks is a novel approach for the classification of gamma-ray sources. We focus on the classification of Fermi-LAT blazar candidates, which can be divided into BL Lacertae objects and Flat Spectrum Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-13 Anja Butter , Thorben Finke , Felicitas Keil , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi

The Fermi-LAT unassociated sources represent some of the most enigmatic gamma-ray sources in the sky. Observations with the Swift-XRT and -UVOT telescopes have identified hundreds of likely X-ray and UV/optical counterparts in the…

In the fourth \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL), 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources are reported, including 3207 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 239 pulsars, 1336 unassociated sources, 92 sources with weak association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Kerui Zhu , Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng

The Fermi/LAT telescope is an efficient blazar-detector in the MeV/GeV range. More than 1100 (900) blazars detected above 100 MeV (10 GeV) are clearly associated to BL Lacertae or Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar objects in the Fermi/LAT 3FGL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-02 Julien Lefaucheur , Catherine Boisson , Paolo Goldoni , Santiago Pita

In this work, we make use of a supervised machine learning algorithm based on Logistic Regression (LR) to select TeV blazar candidates from the 4FGL-DR2 / 4LAC-DR2, 3FHL, 3HSP, and 2BIGB catalogs. LR constructs a hyperplane based on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 J. T. Zhu , C. Lin , H. B. Xiao , J. H. Fan , D. Bastieri , G. G. Wang

Despite the growing number of gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi-LAT, about one third of the sources in each survey remains of uncertain type. We present a new deep neural network approach for the classification of unidentified or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi