Classifying 3FGL with ANN Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Salvetti D.
  2. Chiaro G.
  3. La Mura G.
  4. Thompson D.J.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 {gamma}-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50 per cent of the sources have no clear association with a likely {gamma}-ray emitter. We use an artificial neural network algorithm aimed at distinguishing BL Lacs from FSRQs to investigate the source subclass of 559 3FGL unassociated sources characterized by {gamma}-ray properties very similar to those of active galactic nuclei. Based on our method, we can classify 271 objects as BL Lac candidates, 185 as FSRQ candidates, leaving only 103 without a clear classification. We suggest a new zoo for {gamma}-ray objects, where the percentage of sources of uncertain type drops from 52 per cent to less than 10 per cent. The result of this study opens up new considerations on the population of the {gamma}-ray sky, and it will facilitate the planning of significant samples for rigorous analyses and multiwavelength observational campaigns.

Keywords
  1. gamma-ray-astronomy
  2. active-galactic-nuclei
  3. bl-lacertae-objects
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017MNRAS.470.1291S
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/470/1291
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/470/1291
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74701291

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/470/1291
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/470/1291
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/470/1291
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/470/1291/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/470/1291/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/470/1291/table1?

History

2020-06-13T09:56:05Z
Resource record created
2020-06-13T09:56:05Z
Created
2024-08-17T20:19:45Z
Updated

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