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Blazars, a beamed population of active galactic nuclei, radiate high-energy gamma-rays, and thus are a good target for the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). As the blazars trace the large-scale structure of the universe, one may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu , Takuro Narumoto , Tomonori Totani

We present models to predict high frequency counts of extragalactic radio sources using physically grounded recipes to describe the complex spectral behaviour of blazars, that dominate the mm-wave counts at bright flux densities. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Tucci , L. Toffolatti , G. De Zotti , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

The source CGRaBS~J0211$+$1051 (MG1 J021114+1051, z=0.20) flared up on 2011 January 23 in high-energy $\gamma$-rays as reported by {\it Fermi}/LAT. This event was followed by the increased activity at the UV, optical and radio frequencies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Sunil Chandra , Kiran S Baliyan , Shashikiran Ganesh , Luigi Foschini

We describe a survey in the ELAIS N2 region with the VLA at 43.4 GHz, carried out with 1627 independent snapshot observations in D-configuration and covering about 0.5 square degrees. One certain source is detected, a previously-catalogued…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jasper Wall , Rick Perley , Robert Laing , Sean Stotyn , Angela Taylor , Joe Silk

The results of the analysis of 205 brightest sources ( $S>15$ mJy), which were found in the sky survey at the declination of the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, are presented. The survey was conducted at a frequency of 4.7~GHz using a three-beam…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 A. A. Kudryashova , N. N. Bursov , S. A. Trushkin

We study the X-ray spectra of 114 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) using the hardness ratios as given in the WGA catalogue of ROSAT sources. This sample includes all WGA FSRQ with high-quality data and comprises about 20 per cent of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Fabrizio Fiore

By combining the REFLEX and NORAS cluster datasets with the NVSS radio catalogue, we obtain a sample of 145, z<0.3, X-ray selected clusters brighter than 3 10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2 that show a central radio emission above 3 mJy. For virial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 M. Magliocchetti , M. Bruggen

We observed with the VLBA at 2.3 and 8.6 GHz a complete flux-density limited sample of 482 radio sources with declination >+75 degrees brighter than 200 mJy at 1.4 GHz drawn from the NVSS catalog. 34% of the sources show parsec-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-01 Alexander V. Popkov , Yuri Y. Kovalev , Leonid Y. Petrov , Yuri A. Kovalev

(Abridged) We report on the X-ray and multiwavelength properties of 11 radio-quiet quasars with weak or no emission lines identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with redshift z=0.4-2.5. The distribution of relative X-ray…

We present new, simultaneous, multifrequency observations of 45 out of the 55 candidate High Frequency Peakers (HFP) selected by Dallacasa et al. (2000), carried out 3 to 4 years after a first set of observations. Our sub-sample consists of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Tinti , D. Dallacasa , G. De Zotti , A. Celotti , C. Stanghellini

We reevaluate 610 sources classified as Flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in the 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT. Optical spectra from SDSS DR16 confirm broad emission lines within $0.11 \leq z \leq 5.28$. To assess their blazar-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Jonhatan U. Guerrero-González , Vahram Chavushyan , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez

We present preliminary results from a VLBI survey at $\lambda=6 $cm of a sample of 35 sources with flux densities of 2 - 100 mJy. These sources were selected from the VLA FIRST survey at $\lambda = 20 $cm, in a 3 degree field around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. T. Garrington , M. A. Garrett , A. Polatidis

Nearly one-third of the gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi are still unidentified, despite significant recent progress in this effort. On the other hand, all the gamma-ray extragalactic sources associated in the second Fermi-LAT catalog…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , N. Masetti , M. Giroletti , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith , S. Funk

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by emission from blazars, a peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Many of the $\gamma$-ray sources included in Fermi -Large Area Telescope Third Source catalog (3FGL) are classified…

Blazars are currently separated into BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) based on the strength of their emission lines. This is done rather arbitrarily by defining a diagonal line in the Ca H&K break value…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Landt , P. Padovani , E. S. Perlman , P. Giommi

We analyze optical and radio properties of radiogalaxies detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The sample of radio sources are selected from the catalogue of Kimball & Ivezi\'c (2008) with flux densities at 325, 1400 and 4850…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlos G. Bornancini , Ana Laura O'Mill , Sebastian Gurovich , Diego Garcia Lambas

The flux density spectra of radio pulsars are known to be steep and, to first order, described by a power-law relationship of the form S_{\nu} \propto \nu^{\alpha}, where S_{\nu} is the flux density at some frequency \nu and \alpha is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Samuel D. Bates , Duncan R. Lorimer , Joris P. W. Verbiest

We report the results of a 5-GHz southern-hemisphere snapshot VLBI observation of a sample of blazars. The observations were performed with the Southern Hemisphere VLBI Network plus the Shanghai station in 1993 May. Twenty-three…

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of blazars selected from the 5th ROMABZCAT catalog. We selected from this sample a subsample of 2435 objects having at least one counterpart in one of the three main archival X-ray…

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