Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

Abdollahi S, Acero F, Ackermann M, Ajello M, Atwood WB, Axelsson M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Becerra Gonzalez J, Bellazzini R, Berretta A, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Burnett TH, Buson S, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Castro D, Cavazzuti E, Charles E, Chaty S, Chen S, Cheung CC, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Coronado-Blazquez J, Costantin D, Cuoco A, Cutini S, D'Ammando F, Deklotz M, Luque PDLT, De Palma F, Desai A, Digel SW, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Dominguez A, Dumora D, Dirirsa FF, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gaspanini D, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Green D, Grenier IA, Griffin S, Grondin MH, Grove JE, Guiriec S, Harding AK, Hayashi K, Hays E, Hewitt JW, Horan D, Johannesson G, Johnson TJ, Kamae T, Kerr M, Kocevski D, Kovac'Evic M, Kuss M, Landriu D, Larsson S, Latronico L, Lemoine-Goumard M, Li J, Liodakis , Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Marchesini J, Marcotulli L, Marti-Devesa G, Martin P, Massaro F, Mazziotta MN, Mcenery JE, Mereu I, Meyer M, Michelson PF, Mirabal N, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko I, Negro M, Nuss E, Ojha R, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Palatiello M, Paliya VS, Paneque D, Pei Z, Pena-Herazo H, Perkins JS, Persic M, Pesce-Rollms M, Petrosian , Petrov L, Piron F, Poon H, Porter TA, Principe G, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Remy Q, Reposeur T, Romani RW, Parkinson PMS, Schinzel FK, Serini D, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Strong AW, Suson DJ, Tajima H, Takahashi MN, Tak D, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Torresi E, Valverde J, Van Klaveren B, Van Zyl P, Wood K, Yassine M, Zaharijas G (2020)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2020

Journal

Book Volume: 247

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ab6bcb

Abstract

We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the deepest yet in this energy range. Relative to the 3FGL catalog, the 4FGL catalog has twice as much exposure as well as a number of analysis improvements, including an updated model for the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission, and two sets of light curves (one-year and two-month intervals). The 4FGL catalog includes 5064 sources above 4 sigma significance, for which we provide localization and spectral properties. Seventy-five sources are modeled explicitly as spatially extended, and overall, 358 sources are considered as identified based on angular extent, periodicity, or correlated variability observed at other wavelengths. For 1336 sources, we have not found plausible counterparts at other wavelengths. More than 3130 of the identified or associated sources are active galaxies of the blazar class, and 239 are pulsars.

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University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot / Université Paris VII Denis Diderot France (FR) Hiroshima University Japan (JP) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Germany (DE) George Mason University United States (USA) (US) Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut, MPP) / Max Planck Institute for Physics Germany (DE) University of Bari Aldo Moro / Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Italy (IT) Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck Austria (AT) National Institute for Nuclear Physics / Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Italy (IT) University of Montpellier / Université Montpellier France (FR) Université Bordeaux 1, Sciences et Technologies France (FR) Stanford University United States (USA) (US) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) Spain (ES) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) United States (USA) (US) Università degli Studi di Perugia Italy (IT) National Institute for Astrophysics / Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF) Italy (IT) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) United States (USA) (US) Clemson University United States (USA) (US) University of Washington United States (USA) (US) École Polytechnique - Université Paris-Saclay France (FR) Italian Space Agency / Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Italy (IT) U.S. Naval Research Laboratory United States (USA) (US) University of Turin / Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO) Italy (IT) Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) / Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Germany (DE) Nagoya University / 名古屋大学 Japan (JP) Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) Spain (ES) University of Johannesburg South Africa (ZA) Purdue University Northwest / Purdue University Calumet United States (USA) (US) Sonoma State University United States (USA) (US) Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC) Spain (ES) University of California Santa Cruz United States (USA) (US) Stockholm University / Stockholms universitet Sweden (SE) Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées France (FR) Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Germany (DE) University of Pisa / Università di Pisa (UniPi) Italy (IT) NYCB Real-Time Computing, Inc. United States (USA) (US) Royal Institute of Technology / Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) Sweden (SE) University of Denver United States (USA) (US) Stellar Solutions, Inc. United States (USA) (US) Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) South Africa (ZA) Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Spain (ES) University of Tokyo Japan (JP) University of North Florida (UNF) United States (USA) (US) University of Padua / Universita degli Studi di Padova Italy (IT) University of Iceland (UI) / Háskóli Íslands Iceland (IS)

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APA:

Abdollahi, S., Acero, F., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Atwood, W.B., Axelsson, M.,... Zaharijas, G. (2020). Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog. Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 247(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab6bcb

MLA:

Abdollahi, S., et al. "Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog." Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 247.1 (2020).

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