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The Fermi and Swift satellites, together with ground based Cherenkov telescopes, has greatly improved our knowledge of blazars, namely Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars and BL Lac objects, since all but the most powerful emit most of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Ghisellini

The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray transient monitor provides near real-time coverage of the X-ray sky in the energy range 15-50 keV. The BAT observes 88% of the sky each day with a detection sensitivity of 5.3 mCrab for a…

We present the results of a multi-frequency, time-averaged analysis of blazars included in the Candidate Gamma-ray Blazar Survey catalog. Our sample consists of 324 $\gamma$-ray detected ($\gamma$-ray loud) and 191 non $\gamma$-ray detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Vaidehi S. Paliya , L. Marcotulli , M. Ajello , M. Joshi , S. Sahayanathan , A. R. Rao , D. Hartmann

Among the blazars detected by the Fermi satellite, we have selected the 23 blazars that in the three months of survey had an average gamma-ray luminosity above 1e48 erg/s. For 17 out of the 23 sources we found and analysed X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghirlanda

We present the results of our analysis devoted to the research of sources emitting in the energy bands surveyed by both the Swift-BAT and the Fermi-LAT telescopes. We cross-correlate the Fermi-LAT 1-year point source catalogue (1FGL) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Maselli , G. Cusumano , E. Massaro , A. Segreto , V. La Parola , A. Tramacere , I. Donnarumma

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

Using public \fermi LAT and \swift BAT observations, we constructed the first sample of blazars selected at both hard X-rays and gamma-rays. Studying its spectral properties, we find a luminosity dependence of the spectral slopes at both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 R. M. Sambruna , D. Donato , M. Ajello , L. Maraschi , the GSFC BAT Team

The 9-month Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog provides the first unbiased (log N_H < 24) look at local (<z> = 0.03) AGN. In this paper, we present the collected X-ray properties (0.3 - 12keV) for the 153 AGN detected. In addition,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. M. Winter , R. Mushotzky , C. S. Reynolds , J. Tueller

To date, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard Swift has detected ~ 1000 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), of which ~ 360 GRBs have redshift measurements, ranging from z = 0.03 to z = 9.38. We present the analyses of the BAT-detected GRBs for the…

We investigate the 1.4 GHz radio properties of 92 nearby (z<0.05) ultra hard X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) sample. Through the ultra hard X-ray selection we minimise the biases…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-04 O. Ivy Wong , M. J. Koss , K. Schawinski , A. D. Kapińska , I. Lamperti , K. Oh , C. Ricci , S. Berney

High-redshift blazars are among the most powerful objects in the Universe. The spectral and temporal properties of thirty-three distant blazars ($z>2.5$) detected in the high energy $\gamma$-ray band are investigated by analyzing the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , G. Harutyunyan , M. Khachatryan , S. Gasparyan

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…

We present the first analysis of the all-sky Swift BAT ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) data for a targeted list of objects. We find the BAT data can be studied at 3x fainter limits than in previous blind detection catalogs based on prior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael Koss , Richard Mushotzky , Wayne Baumgartner , Sylvain Veilleux , Jack Tueller , Craig Markwardt , Caitlin M. Casey

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is performing a high Galactic latitude survey in the 14-195 keV band at a flux limit of ~10^{-11} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}, leading to the discovery of new high energy sources, most of which have not so far…

We systematically investigate the near- (NIR) to far-infrared (FIR) photometric properties of a nearly complete sample of local active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected in the Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky ultra hard X-ray (14-195…

With the release of the first year Fermi catalogue, the number of blazars detected above 100 MeV lying at high redshift has been largely increased. There are 28 blazars at z>2 in the "clean" sample. All of them are Flat Spectrum Radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Ghisellini , G. Tagliaferri , L. Foschini , G. Ghirlanda , F. Tavecchio , R. Della Ceca , F. Haardt , M. Volonteri , N. Gehrels

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray transient monitor tracks more than 700 galactic and extragalactic sources on time scales ranging from a single Swift pointing (approximately 20 minutes) to one day. The monitored sources…

We present the first catalog and data release of the Swift-BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). We analyze optical spectra of the majority of AGN (77%, 641/836) detected based on their 14-195 keV emission in the 70-month Swift BAT all-sky…

We present the first catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the LAT, corresponding to 11 months of data collected in scientific operation mode. The First LAT AGN Catalog (1LAC) includes 671 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. A. Abdo

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is one of 3 instruments on the Swift MIDEX spacecraft to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The BAT first detects the GRB and localizes the burst direction to an accuracy of 1-4 arcmin within 20 sec after the…