New identifications of 4FGL sources with SPT-SZ Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Zhang L.
  2. Vieira J.D.
  3. Ajello M.
  4. Malkan M.A.
  5. Archipley M.A.
  6. Capota J.,Foster A.
  7. Madejski G.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) contains 5064 {gamma}-ray sources detected at high significance, but 26% of them still lack associations at other wavelengths. The SPT-SZ survey, conducted between 2008 and 2011 with the South Pole Telescope (SPT), covers 2500deg^2^ of the southern sky in three millimeter-wavelength (mm) bands and was used to construct a catalog of nearly 5000 emissive sources. In this study, we introduce a new cross-matching scheme to search for multiwavelength counterparts of extragalactic {gamma}-ray sources using a mm catalog. We apply a Poissonian probability to evaluate the rate of spurious false associations and compare the multiwavelength associations from the radio, mm, near-infrared, and X-ray with 4FGL {gamma}-ray sources. In the SPT-SZ survey field, 85% of 4FGL sources are associated with mm counterparts. These mm sources include 94% of previously associated 4FGL sources and 56% of previously unassociated 4FGL sources. The latter group contains 40 4FGL sources for which SPT has provided the first identified counterparts. Nearly all of the SPT-associated 4FGL sources can be described as flat-spectrum radio quasars or blazars. We find that the mm band is the most efficient wavelength for detecting {gamma}-ray blazars when considering both completeness and purity. We also demonstrate that the mm band correlates better to the {gamma}-ray band than the radio or X-ray bands. With the next generation of CMB experiments, this technique can be extended to greater sensitivities and more sky area to further complete the identifications of the remaining unknown {gamma}-ray blazars.

Keywords
  1. gamma-ray-astronomy
  2. millimeter-astronomy
  3. submillimeter-astronomy
  4. radio-sources
  5. surveys
  6. infrared-astronomy
  7. x-ray-sources
  8. astronomical-object-identification
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2022ApJ...939..117Z
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