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Blazars are the dominant type of extragalactic sources at microwave and at $\gamma$-ray energies. In the most energetic part of the electromagnetic spectrum (E>100GeV) a large fraction of high Galactic latitude sources are blazars of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Arsioli , B. Fraga , P. Giommi , P. Padovani , P. M. Marrese

We present a spectral catalog for blazars based on the BeppoSAX archive. The sample includes 44 High-energy peaked BL Lacs (HBLs), 14 Low-energy peaked BL Lacs (LBLs), and 28 Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs). A total of 168 LECS, MECS,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Donato , R. M. Sambruna , M. Gliozzi

We describe a uniform all-sky survey of bright blazars, selected primarily by their flat radio spectra, that is designed to provide a large catalog of likely gamma-ray AGN. The defined sample has 1625 targets with radio and X-ray properties…

We present the soft X-ray (0.1--2.4 keV) properties of a complete sample of 88 southern radio sources derived from the Wall \& Peacock 2-Jy sample. It comprises 68 radio galaxies, 18 quasars and 2 BL Lac objects. Whereas both BL Lac objects…

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

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…

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

Blazars are among the most studied sources in high-energy astrophysics as they form the largest fraction of extragalactic gamma-ray sources and are considered prime candidates for being the counterparts of high-energy astrophysical…

According to the second Fermi LAT Catalog (2FGL), about one third of the gamma-ray sources listed have no assigned counterparts at lower energies. Many statistical methods have been developed to find proper counterparts for these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-12 M. Nori , M. Giroletti , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , S. Funk

Studying unidentified {\gamma}-ray sources is important as they may hide new discoveries. We conducted a multiwavelength analysis of 13 unidentified Fermi-LAT sources in the 3FGL catalog that have no known counterparts (Unidentified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Jean Damascène Mbarubucyeye , Felicia Krauß , Pheneas Nkundabakura

Aims. eROSITA, on board the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) spacecraft, performed its first X-ray all-sky survey (eRASS1) between December 2019 and June 2020. It detected about 930000 sources, providing us with an unprecedented opportunity…

The rareness of blazars, combined with the previous history of relatively shallow, single-band surveys, has dramatically colored our perception of these objects. Despite a quarter-century of research, it is not at all clear whether current…

Blazars are the brightest and most abundant persistent sources in the extragalactic gamma-ray sky. Due to their significance, they are often observed across various energy bands to explore potential correlations between emissions at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 P. Giommi , N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , M. Manvelyan

We present the results of nine years of the blazar observing programme at the RATAN-600 radio telescope (2005-2014). The data were obtained at six frequency bands (1.1, 2.3, 4.8, 7.7, 11.2, 21.7 GHz) for 290 blazars, mostly BL Lacs. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 M. Mingaliev , Yu. Sotnikova , T. Mufakharov , E. Nieppola , M. Tornikoski , J. Tammi , A. Lahteenmaki , R. Udovitskiy , A. Erkenov

We present a catalog of radio-loud candidate gamma-ray emitting blazars with WISE mid-infrared colors similar to the colors of confirmed gamma-ray blazars. The catalog is assembled from WISE sources detected in all four WISE filters, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 R. D'Abrusco , F. Massaro , A. Paggi , H. A. Smith , N. Masetti , M. Landoni , G. Tosti

As a pilot study for the first all-sky radio survey at short wavelengths, we have observed 1216 sq. deg. of the southern sky at 18GHz (16mm) using a novel wide-band (3.4GHz bandwidth) analogue correlator on one baseline of the Australia…

We study the quasi-simultaneous near-IR, optical, UV, and X-ray photometry of eleven gamma-ray selected blazars for which redshift estimates larger than 1.2 have been recently provided. Four of these objects turn out to be high-power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , A. Rau

The low-frequency polarisation properties of radio sources are poorly studied, particularly in statistical samples. However, the new generation of low-frequency telescopes, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA; the precursor for the…

Since mid-2007 we have carried out a dedicated long-term monitoring programme at 15 GHz using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 meter telescope. One of the main goals of this programme is to study the relation between the radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , T. Hovatta , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , O. G. King , R. Reeves

Blazars are radio-loud active galactic nuclei well known for their non thermal emission spanning a wide range of frequencies. The Roma-BZCAT is, to date, the most comprehensive list of these sources. We performed the cross-match of several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-04 A. Maselli , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , A. Segreto , G. Tosti