Two new catalogs of blazar candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. D'Abrusco R.
  2. Alvarez Crespo N.
  3. Massaro F.
  4. Campana R.
  5. Chavushyan V.,Landoni M.
  6. La Franca F.
  7. Masetti N.
  8. Milisavljevic D.
  9. Paggi A.
  10. Ricci F.,Smith H.A.
  11. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present two catalogs of radio-loud candidate blazars whose Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid-infrared colors are selected to be consistent with the colors of confirmed {gamma}-ray-emitting blazars. The first catalog is the improved and expanded release of the WISE Blazar-like Radio-Loud Sources (WIBRaLS) catalog presented by D'Abrusco et al. It includes sources detected in all four WISE filters, spatially cross-matched with radio sources in one of three radio surveys and radio-loud based on their q_22_ spectral parameter. WIBRaLS2 includes 9541 sources classified as BL Lacs, flat-spectrum radio quasars, or mixed candidates based on their WISE colors. The second catalog, called KDEBLLACS, based on a new selection technique, contains 5579 candidate BL Lacs extracted from the population of WISE sources detected in the first three WISE passbands ([3.4], [4.6], and [12]) only, whose mid-infrared colors are similar to those of confirmed, {gamma}-ray BL Lacs. Members of KDBLLACS are also required to have a radio counterpart and be radio-loud based on the parameter q_12_, defined similarly to the q_22_ used for the WIBRaLS2. We describe the properties of these catalogs and compare them with the largest samples of confirmed and candidate blazars in the literature. We cross-match the two new catalogs with the most recent catalogs of {gamma}-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Since spectroscopic observations of candidate blazars from the first WIBRaLS catalog within the uncertainty regions of {gamma}-ray unassociated sources confirmed that ~90% of these candidates are blazars, we anticipate that these new catalogs will again play an important role in the identification of the {gamma}-ray sky.

Keywords
  1. BL Lacertae objects
  2. Active galactic nuclei
  3. Infrared photometry
  4. Radio sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJS..242....4D
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22420004

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History

2020-01-16T07:43:26Z
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2020-01-16T07:43:26Z
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