WISE candidate {gamma}-ray blazar radio sources Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. D'Abrusco R.
  2. Massaro F.
  3. Paggi A.
  4. Smith H.A.
  5. Masetti N.
  6. Landoni M.,Tosti G.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a catalog of radio-loud candidate {gamma}-ray emitting blazars with WISE mid-infrared colors similar to the colors of confirmed {gamma}-ray blazars. The catalog is assembled from WISE sources detected in all four WISE filters, with colors compatible with the three-dimensional locus of the WISE {gamma}-ray emitting blazars, and which can be spatially cross-matched with radio sources from one of the three radio surveys: NVSS, FIRST, and/or SUMSS. Our initial WISE selection uses a slightly modified version of previously successful algorithms. We then select only the radio-loud sources using a measure of the radio-to-IR flux, the q_22_parameter, which is analogous to the q_24_ parameter known in the literature but which instead uses the WISE band-four flux at 22{mu}m. Our final catalog contains 7855 sources classified as BL Lacs, FSRQs, or mixed candidate blazars; 1295 of these sources can be spatially re-associated as confirmed blazars. We describe the properties of the final catalog of WISE blazar-like radio-loud sources and consider possible contaminants. Finally, we discuss why this large catalog of candidate {gamma}-ray emitting blazars represents a new and useful resource to address the problem of finding low-energy counterparts to currently unidentified high-energy sources.

Keywords
  1. bl-lacertae-objects
  2. quasars
  3. astronomical-object-identification
  4. infrared-photometry
  5. radio-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2014ApJS..215...14D
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/215/14
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22150014

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History

2015-01-21T12:19:02Z
Resource record created
2015-01-21T12:19:02Z
Created
2015-02-06T20:04:46Z
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