The 3rd Catalog of AGN Detected by the Fermi LAT
Dario Gasparrini ; Benoit Lott ; Sara Cutini ; et al. ; - ASI Sponsor
Aug - 2015
Event Title : The 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July- 6 August, 2015 The Hague, The Netherlands
Published in: Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)
Publisher: PoS
type: Conference Proceedings
Abstract
The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third catalog (3FGL,\cite{3FGL}) of sources detected with a test statistic greater than 25, using the first 4 years of data. The 3LAC includes 1591 AGNs located at high (|b|>10∘) Galactic latitudes (with 28 duplicate associations, thus corresponding to 1563 gamma-ray sources among 2192 sources in the 3FGL catalog), providing 71% more sources with respect to the 2FGL. Various properties, such as gamma-ray fluxes and photon power law spectral indices, redshifts, gamma-ray luminosities, variability, and their correlations are presented and discussed for the different blazar and non-blazar classes.
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