The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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

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The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W.B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, …

The Astrophysical Journal, Vol.810(1)

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/14

Abstract

BL Lacertae objects: general

galaxies: active

galaxies: jets

gamma rays: galaxies

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 greater than 25, between 2008 August 4 and 2012 July 31. The 3LAC includes 1591 AGNs located at high Galactic latitudes ($| b| \gt 10^\circ $), a 71% increase over the second catalog based on 2 years of data. There are 28 duplicate associations, thus 1563 of the 2192 high-latitude gamma-ray sources of the 3FGL catalog are AGNs. Most of them (98%) are blazars. About half of the newly detected blazars are of unknown type, i.e., they lack spectroscopic information of sufficient quality to determine the strength of their emission lines. Based on their gamma-ray spectral properties, these sources are evenly split between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lacs. The most abundant detected BL Lacs are of the high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) type. About 50% of the BL Lacs have no measured redshifts. A few new rare outliers (HSP-FSRQs and high-luminosity HSP BL Lacs) are reported. The general properties of the 3LAC sample confirm previous findings from earlier catalogs. The fraction of 3LAC blazars in the total population of blazars listed in BZCAT remains non-negligible even at the faint ends of the BZCAT-blazar radio, optical, and X-ray flux distributions, which hints that even the faintest known blazars could eventually shine in gamma-rays at LAT-detection levels. The energy-flux distributions of the different blazar populations are in good agreement with extrapolation from earlier catalogs.

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Title: The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Creators - without role: M. Ackermann - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
M. Ajello - Clemson University
W.B. Atwood - University of California, Santa Cruz
L. Baldini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
J. Ballet - CEA Paris-Saclay
G. Barbiellini - University of Trieste
D. Bastieri - University of Padua
J. Becerra Gonzalez
R. Bellazzini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E. Bissaldi - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
R.D. Blandford - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E.D. Bloom - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R. Bonino - University of Turin
E. Bottacini - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T.J. Brandt - Goddard Space Flight Center
J. Bregeon - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
R.J. Britto - University of Johannesburg
P. Bruel - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
R. Buehler - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
S. Buson - University of Padua
G.A. Caliandro - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R.A. Cameron - Stanford University
M. Caragiulo - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
P.A. Caraveo - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
B. Carpenter - University of America
J.M. Casandjian - Université Paris Cité
E. Cavazzuti - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
C. Cecchi - University of Perugia
E. Charles - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Chekhtman - George Mason University
C.C. Cheung - United States Naval Research Laboratory
J. Chiang - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
G. Chiaro - University of Padua
S. Ciprini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
R. Claus - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Johann Cohen-Tanugi - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
L.R. Cominsky - Sonoma State University
J. Conrad - Stockholm University
S. Cutini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
R. d'Abrusco
F. d'Ammando
A. de Angelis - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
R. Desiante - University of Udine
S.W. Digel - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
L. Di Venere - Polytechnic University of Bari
P.S. Drell - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
C. Favuzzi - Polytechnic University of Bari
S.J. Fegan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
E.C. Ferrara - Goddard Space Flight Center
J. Finke - United States Naval Research Laboratory
W.B. Focke - Stanford University
A. Franckowiak - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
L. Fuhrmann - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Y. Fukazawa - Hiroshima University
A.K. Furniss - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
P. Fusco - Polytechnic University of Bari
F. Gargano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
D. Gasparrini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
N. Giglietto - Polytechnic University of Bari
P. Giommi - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
F. Giordano - Polytechnic University of Bari
M. Giroletti - Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna
T. Glanzman - Stanford University
G. Godfrey - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
I.A. Grenier - CEA Paris-Saclay
J.E. Grove - United States Naval Research Laboratory
S. Guiriec - Goddard Space Flight Center
J.W. Hewitt - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
A.B. Hill - Stanford University
D. Horan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
R. Itoh - Hiroshima University
G. Johannesson - University of Iceland
A.S. Johnson - Stanford University
W.N. Johnson - United States Naval Research Laboratory
J. Kataoka - Waseda University
T. Kawano - Hiroshima University
F. Krauss
M. Kuss - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
G. La Mura - Universität Innsbruck
S. Larsson - Stockholm University
L. Latronico - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino
C. Leto
J. Li - Institute of Space Sciences
L. Li - KTH Royal Institute of Technology
F. Longo - University of Trieste
F. Loparco - Polytechnic University of Bari
B. Lott - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
M.N. Lovellette - United States Naval Research Laboratory
P. Lubrano - University of Perugia
G.M. Madejski - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
M. Mayer - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
M.N. Mazziotta - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
J.E. Mcenery - University of Maryland, College Park
P.F. Michelson - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. Mizuno - Hiroshima University
A.A. Moiseev - Goddard Space Flight Center
M.E. Monzani - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Morselli - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata
I.V. Moskalenko - Stanford University
S. Murgia - University of California, Irvine
E. Nuss - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
M. Ohno - Hiroshima University
T. Ohsugi - Hiroshima University
R. Ojha - Goddard Space Flight Center
N. Omodei - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
M. Orienti - Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna
E. Orlando - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Paggi - Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian
D. Paneque - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.S. Perkins - Goddard Space Flight Center
M. Pesce-Rollins - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
F. Piron - Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
G. Pivato - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
T.A. Porter - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
S. Raino - Polytechnic University of Bari
R. Rando - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
M. Razzano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
S. Razzaque - University of Johannesburg
A. Reimer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
O. Reimer - Stanford University
R.W. Romani - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
D. Salvetti - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
M. Schaal - National Academy of Sciences
F.K. Schinzel - University of New Mexico
A. Schulz - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
C. Sgro - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E.J. Siskind - Real Time Tomography
K.V. Sokolovsky - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
F. Spada - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
G. Spandre - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
P. Spinelli - Polytechnic University of Bari
L. Stawarz
D.J. Suson - Purdue University Northwest
H. Takahashi - Hiroshima University
T. Takahashi - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Y. Tanaka - Hiroshima University
J.G. Thayer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.B. Thayer - Stanford University
L. Tibaldo - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
D.F. Torres - Institute of Space Sciences
E. Torresi - National Institute for Astrophysics
G. Tosti - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia
E. Troja - Goddard Space Flight Center
Y. Uchiyama
G. Vianello - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
B.L. Winer - The Ohio State University
K.S. Wood - United States Naval Research Laboratory
S. Zimmer - AlbaNova
Publication Details: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol.810(1)
Identifiers: 9935355409311
Academic Unit: Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier - LUPM
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: hal-02017116