3FGL X-ray Analysis and ML Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kerby S.
  2. Kaur A.
  3. Falcone A.D.
  4. Stroh M.C.
  5. Ferrara E.C.
  6. Kennea J.A.,Colosimo J.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

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 spectra are well fit by an absorbed power law model, as expected for a population dominated by blazars and pulsars. A small subset of 7 X-ray sources have spectra unlike the power law expected from a blazar or pulsar and may be linked to coincident stars or background emission. We develop a multiwavelength machine learning classifier to categorize unassociated sources into pulsars and blazars using gamma- and X-ray observations. Training a random forest procedure with known pulsars and blazars, we achieve a cross-validated classification accuracy of 98.6%. Applying the random forest routine to the unassociated sources returned 126 likely blazar candidates (defined as P_bzr_>90%) and 5 likely pulsar candidates (P_bzr_<10%). Our new X-ray spectral analysis does not drastically alter the random forest classifications of these sources compared to previous works, but it builds a more robust classification scheme and highlights the importance of X-ray spectral fitting. Our procedure can be further expanded with UV, visual, or radio spectral parameters or by measuring flux variability.

Keywords
  1. x-ray-sources
  2. pulsars
  3. active-galactic-nuclei
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021AJ....161..154K
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51610154

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History

2021-04-16T09:56:56Z
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2021-04-16T09:56:56Z
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2022-03-07T07:09:03Z
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