FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE THIRD SOURCE CATALOG

Acero F, Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Axelsson M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Belfiore A, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bogart JR, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Bregeon J, Britto RJ, Bruel P, Buehler R, Burnett TH, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Cavazzuti E, Charles E, Chaves RCG, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Conrad J, Cutini S, D'Ammando F, De Angelis A, Deklotz M, De Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Dubois R, Dumora D, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Finke J, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giebels B, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grondin MH, Grove JE, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Harding AK, Hays E, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Iafrate G, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Johnson RP, Johnson AS, Johnson TJ, Johnson WN, Kamae T, Kataoka J, Katsuta J, Kuss M, La Mura G, Landriu D, Larsson S, Latronico L, Lemoine-Goumard M, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Massaro F, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Mcenery JE, Michelson PF, Mirabal N, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Mongelli M, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Panetta JH, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Racusin JL, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reposeur T, Rochester LS, Romani RW, Salvetti D, Sanchez-Conde M, Parkinson PMS, Schulz A, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Stephens TE, Strong AW, Suson DJ, Takahashi H, Takahashi T, Tanaka Y, Thayer JG, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Tibolla O, Torres DF, Torresi E, Tosti G, Troja E, Van Klaveren B, Vianello G, Winer BL, Wood KS, Wood M, Zimmer S (2015)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2015

Journal

Publisher: American Astronomical Society

Book Volume: 218

DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/218/2/23

Abstract

We present the third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source catalog (3FGL) of sources in the 100 MeV-300 GeV range. Based on the first 4 yr of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission, it is the deepest yet in this energy range. Relative to the Second Fermi LAT catalog, the 3FGL catalog incorporates twice as much data, as well as a number of analysis improvements, including improved calibrations at the event reconstruction level, an updated model for Galactic diffuse.-ray emission, a refined procedure for source detection, and improved methods for associating LAT sources with potential counterparts at other wavelengths. The 3FGL catalog includes 3033 sources above 4 sigma significance, with source location regions, spectral properties, and monthly light curves for each. Of these, 78 are flagged as potentially being due to imperfections in the model for Galactic diffuse emission. Twenty-five sources are modeled explicitly as spatially extended, and overall 238 sources are considered as identified based on angular extent or correlated variability (periodic or otherwise) observed at other wavelengths. For 1010 sources we have not found plausible counterparts at other wavelengths. More than 1100 of the identified or associated sources are active galaxies of the blazar class; several other classes of non-blazar active galaxies are also represented in the 3FGL. Pulsars represent the largest Galactic source class. From source counts of Galactic sources we estimate that the contribution of unresolved sources to the Galactic diffuse emission is similar to 3% at 1 GeV.

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National Institute for Astrophysics / Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF) Italy (IT) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) University of Montpellier / Université Montpellier France (FR) Italian Space Agency / Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Italy (IT) Stanford University United States (USA) (US) Stockholm University / Stockholms universitet Sweden (SE) University of California Santa Cruz United States (USA) (US) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) Clemson University United States (USA) (US) University of Johannesburg South Africa (ZA) U.S. Naval Research Laboratory United States (USA) (US) Stellar Solutions, Inc. United States (USA) (US) Politecnico di Bari Italy (IT) École Polytechnique - Université Paris-Saclay France (FR) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States (USA) (US) Université Bordeaux 1, Sciences et Technologies France (FR) University of Orléans / Université d'Orléans France (FR) Hiroshima University Japan (JP) George Mason University United States (USA) (US) University of Padua / Universita degli Studi di Padova Italy (IT) Yale University United States (USA) (US) University of California Irvine United States (USA) (US) Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck Austria (AT) AlbaNova University Centre / Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan AlbaNova Universitetscentrum Sweden (SE) Brigham Young University United States (USA) (US) Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) Japan (JP) Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH) Mexico (MX) Spanish National Research Council / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Spain (ES) Ohio State University United States (USA) (US) Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) / Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Germany (DE) Waseda University / 早稲田大学 Japan (JP) University of Udine / Università degli Studi di Udine Italy (IT) University of Washington United States (USA) (US) Sonoma State University United States (USA) (US) University of Iceland (UI) / Háskóli Íslands Iceland (IS) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Germany (DE) University of Pisa / Università di Pisa (UniPi) Italy (IT) University of Denver United States (USA) (US) NYCB Real-Time Computing, Inc. United States (USA) (US) Purdue University Northwest / Purdue University Calumet United States (USA) (US)

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APA:

Acero, F., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W.B., Axelsson, M.,... Zimmer, S. (2015). FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE THIRD SOURCE CATALOG. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 218. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/218/2/23

MLA:

Acero, F., et al. "FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE THIRD SOURCE CATALOG." Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 218 (2015).

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