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We aim to test if a blazar candidate of uncertain-type (BCU) in the third Fermi active galactic nuclei catalog (3LAC) can be potentially classified as a BL Lac object or a flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) by performing a statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Ting-Feng Yi , Jin Zhang , Rui-Jing Lu , Rui Huang , En-Wei Liang

The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains 2863 objects located at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10{\deg}).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-29 LAT collaboration

The second catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in two years of scientific operation is presented. The Second LAT AGN Catalog (2LAC) includes 1017 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest all-sky survey available in the gamma-ray band. It contains 1873 sources, of which 576 remain unassociated. Machine-learning algorithms can be trained on the gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-29 M. Doert , M. Errando

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

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

The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected between 100 MeV and 300 GeV with a Test Statistic (TS) greater than 25,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , J. Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. Blandford , E. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. Brandt , J. Bregeon , R. Britto , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. Caliandro , R. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. Caraveo , J. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. Cheung , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , L. Cominsky , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , R. D'Abrusco , F. D'Ammando , A. Angelis , R. Desiante , S. Digel , L. Venere , P. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. Fegan , E. Ferrara , J. Finke , W. Focke , A. Franckowiak , L. Fuhrmann , A. Furniss , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. Grenier , J. Grove , S. Guiriec , J. W. Hewitt , A. Hill , D. Horan , G. J'ohannesson , A. Johnson , W. Johnson , J. Kataoka , M. Kuss , G. Mura , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , C. Leto , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. Madejski , M. Mayer , M. Mazziotta , J. McEnery , P. Michelson , T. Mizuno , A. Moiseev , M. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , R. Ojha , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , A. Paggi , D. Paneque , J. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. Porter , S. Rain`o , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , R. Romani , D. Salvetti , M. Schaal , F. Schinzel , A. Schulz , C. Sgr`o , E. Siskind , K. Sokolovsky , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Stawarz , D. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Takahashi , Y. Tanaka , J. Thayer , J. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , D. Torres , E. Torresi , G. Tosti , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , G. Vianello , B. Winer , K. Wood , S. Zimmer

Associating gamma-ray sources to their low-energy counterparts is one of the major challenges of modern gamma-ray astronomy. In the context of the Fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL), the associations rely mainly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Raniere de Menezes , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Francesco Massaro , Dario Gasparrini , Rodrigo Nemmen

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

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50% of the sources have no clear association with a likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 David Salvetti , Graziano Chiaro , Giovanni La Mura , David J. Thompson

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.

The first three months of sky-survey operation with the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) Large Area Telescope (LAT) reveals 132 bright sources at |b|>10 deg with test statistic greater than 100 (corresponding to about 10 sigma). Two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-30 A. A. Abdo

We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 LAT collaboration

Classifying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a challenge, especially for BL Lac Objects (BLLs), which are identified by their weak emission line spectra. To address the problem of classification, we use data from the 4th Fermi Catalog, Data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-12 Nathaniel Cooper , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Aditya Narendra , Ioannis Liodakis , Malgorzata Bogdan

We utilize machine learning methods to distinguish BL Lacertae objects (BL Lac) from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQ) within a sample of likely X-ray blazar counterparts to Fermi 3FGL unassociated gamma-ray sources. From our previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-03 Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D. Falcone , Michael C. Stroh

BL Lac Objects (BL Lacs) and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) are radio-loud active galaxies (AGNs) whose jets are seen at a small viewing angle (blazars), while Misaligned Active Galactic Nuclei (MAGNs) are mainly radiogalaxies of type…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-20 G. Chiaro , M. Meyer , N. Alvarez Crespo , R. J. Britto , J. P. Marais , B. van Soelen , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , D. J Thompson

In the third catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the $Fermi$ Large Area Telescope Clean (3LAC) sample, there are 402 blazars candidates of uncertain type (BCU). The proposed analysis will help to evaluate the potential optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-16 Shi-Ju Kang , Kerui Zhu , Jianchao Feng , Qingwen Wu , Bin-Bin Zhang , Yue Yin , Fei-Fei Wang , Yu Liu , Tian-Yuan Zheng

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,…

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 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…