FSRQs & BL Lac objects from 4FGL blazar candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kaur A.
  2. Kerby S.
  3. Falcone A.D.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Among the ~2157 unassociated sources in the third data release (DR3) of the fourth Fermi catalog, ~1200 were observed with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory pointed instruments. These observations yielded 238 high signal-to-noise ratio X-ray sources within the 95% Fermi uncertainty regions. Recently, Kerby+ (2021, J/ApJ/923/75) employed neural networks to find blazar candidates among these 238 X-ray counterparts to the 4FGL unassociated sources and found 112 likely blazar counterpart sources. A complete sample of blazars, along with their subclassification, is a necessary step to help understand the puzzle of the blazar sequence and for the overall completeness of the gamma-ray emitting blazar class in the Fermi catalog. We employed a multi-perceptron neural network classifier to identify flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lac objects among these 112 blazar candidates using the gamma-ray, X-ray, UV/optical, and IR properties. This classifier provided probability estimates for each source to be associated with one or the other category, such that Pfsrq represents the probability for a source to be associated with the FSRQ subclass. Using this approach, four FSRQs and 50 BL Lac objects are classified as such with >99% confidence, while the remaining 58 blazars could not be unambiguously classified as either BL Lac objects or FSRQs.

Keywords
  1. bl-lacertae-objects
  2. quasars
  3. active-galactic-nuclei
  4. gamma-ray-astronomy
  5. x-ray-sources
  6. two-color-diagrams
  7. infrared-astronomy
  8. visible-astronomy
  9. ultraviolet-astronomy
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2023ApJ...943..167K
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19430167

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History

2025-02-12T10:43:49Z
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2025-02-12T10:43:49Z
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