THE SECOND CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE

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doi:10.1088/0004-637x/743/2/171

articleThe Astrophysical JournalDec 2, 2011BRONZE OA

THE SECOND CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE

MAM. Ackermann MAM. Ajello AAA. Allafort EAE. Antolini WBW. B. Atwood

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory · Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology · +67 more institutions

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Abstract

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 γ-ray sources located at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 10°) that are detected with a test statistic (TS) greater than 25 and associated statistically with AGNs. However, some of these are affected by analysis issues and some are associated with multiple AGNs. Consequently, we define a Clean Sample which includes 886 AGNs, comprising 395 BL Lacertae objects (BL Lac objects), 310 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 157 candidate blazars of unknown type (i.e., with broadband blazar characteristics but with no…

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Blazar
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Active galactic nucleus
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BL Lac object
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