• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/715/1/429
• Corpus ID: 119295892

THE FIRST CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE

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  title={THE FIRST CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE},
  author={A. A. Abdo and Markus Ackermann and Marco Ajello and Alice Allafort and Elisa Antolini and William Atwood and Magnus Axelsson and Luca Baldini and Jean Ballet and Guido Barbiellini and Denis Bastieri and Brian M. Baughman and Keith C. Bechtol and Ronaldo Bellazzini and Bijan Berenji and R. D. Blandford and Elliott D. Bloom and J. Bogart and Emanuele Bonamente and A. W. Borgland and Aurelien Bouvier and Jean Bregeon and Alessandro Brez and Monica Brigida and Pascal Bruel and R. Buehler and Toby Burnett and Sara Buson and G. A. Caliandro and R. A. Cameron and A. Cannon and P. A. Caraveo and Svenja Carrigan and J. M. Casandjian and Elisabetta Cavazzuti and Claudia Cecchi and {\"O}. Çelik and Annalisa Celotti and Eric Charles and A. Chekhtman and A. W. Chen and C. C. Cheung and J. Chiang and Stefano Ciprini and Richard O. Claus and J. Cohen-Tanugi and J M Conrad and L. Costamante and Garret Cotter and S. Cutini and Valerio D’Elia and Charles D. Dermer and Alessandro De Angelis and Francesco de Palma and Alessandra De Rosa and S. W. Digel and Eduardo do Couto e Silva and P. S. Drell and Richard Dubois and Denis Dumora and Laurent Escande and Christian Farnier and Cecilia Favuzzi and Stephen J. Fegan and Elizabeth C. Ferrara and W. B. Focke and P. Fortin and Marco Frailis and Y. Fukazawa and S. Funk and Piergiorgio Fusco and Fabio Gargano and Dario Gasparrini and N. C. Gehrels and Stefano Germani and Berrie Giebels and Nicola Giglietto and Paolo Giommi and Francesco Giordano and Marcello Giroletti and Tom Glanzman and Gary Lunt Godfrey and Paola Grandi and Isabelle Grenier and M.-H. Grondin and J. E. Grove and S. Guiriec and D. Hadasch and A. K. Harding and Morihiro Hayashida and Elizabeth Hays and Stephen E. Healey and A. B. Hill and D. Horan and Rhian E. Hughes and Giulia Iafrate and Ryohei Itoh and Guðlaugur J{\'o}hannesson and A. S. Johnson and R P Johnson and T. J. Johnson and W. Neil Johnson and Tuneyoshi Kamae and Hideaki Katagiri and Jun Kataoka and N. Kawai and Matthew Kerr and J. Kn{\"o}dlseder and Michael Kuss and Joshua Lande and Luca Latronico and Claudia Lavalley and Marianne Lemoine-Goumard and M. Llena Garde and Francesco Longo and Francesco Loparco and B. Lott and Michael N. Lovellette and Pasquale Lubrano and Grzegorz Madejski and Alexei Makeev and Giuseppe Malaguti and Enrico Massaro and M. N. Mazziotta and W. Mcconville and J. Mcenery and S. Mcglynn and P. F. Michelson and Warit Mitthumsiri and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Alexander A Moiseev and Claudia Del Monte and M. E. Monzani and A. Morselli and Igor V. Moskalenko and Simona Murgia and P. L. Nolan and J. P. Norris and Eric Nuss and Masanori Ohno and T. Ohsugi and Nicola Omodei and Elena Orlando and J. F. Ormes and M. Ozaki and D. Paneque and J. H. Panetta and Damien Parent and V{\'e}ronique Pelassa and Marianna Pepe and Melissa Pesce-Rollins and Silvia Piranomonte and F. Piron and T. A. Porter and S. Rain{\'o} and Riccardo Rando and Massimiliano Razzano and Anita Reimer and O. Reimer and Thierry Reposeur and Joachim Ripken and Steven M. Ritz and A. Y. Rodr{\'i}guez and R. W. Romani and Markus Roth and Felix Ryde and H.F.-W. Sadrozinski and Diana Sanchez and Aaron Sander and Pablo M. Saz Parkinson and Jeffrey D. Scargle and Carmelo Sgro’ and Michael S. Shaw and Eric J. Siskind and P. D. Smith and Gloria Spandre and P. Spinelli and J. L. Starck and Łukasz Stawarz and Mark S. Strickman and Daniel J. Suson and Hiroyasu Tajima and Hiromitsu Takahashi and T. Takahashi and T. Tanaka and Gregory B. Taylor and Jana Thayer and John Gregg Thayer and D. J. Thompson and Luigi Tibaldo and D. F. Torres and Gino Tosti and Andrea Tramacere and P. Ubertini and Y. Uchiyama and T. L. Usher and Vlasios Vasileiou and Neils Vilchez and Massimo Villata and V. Vitale and A. P. Waite and Eric Wallace and P. Wang and B. L. Winer and K. S. Wood and Z. Yang and Tomi Ylinen and Marcus Ziegler},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2010},
  volume={715},
  pages={429 - 457}
}

• A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, +205 authors M. Ziegler
• Published 31 January 2010
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

We present the first catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), corresponding to 11 months of data collected in scientific operation mode. The First LAT AGN Catalog (1LAC) includes 671 γ-ray sources located at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10°) that are detected with a test statistic greater than 25 and associated statistically with AGNs. Some LAT sources are associated with multiple AGNs, and consequently, the catalog includes 709 AGNs, comprising 300 BL Lacertae objects, 296 flat-spectrum radio quasars, 41 AGNs of other types, and 72 AGNs of unknown type. We also classify the blazars based on their spectral energy distributions as archival radio, optical, and X-ray data permit. In addition to the formal 1LAC sample, we provide AGN associations for 51 low-latitude LAT sources and AGN “affiliations” (unquantified counterpart candidates) for 104 high-latitude LAT sources without AGN associations. The overlap of the 1LAC with existing γ-ray AGN catalogs (LBAS, EGRET, AGILE, Swift, INTEGRAL, TeVCat) is briefly discussed. Various properties—such as γ-ray fluxes and photon power-law spectral indices, redshifts, γ-ray luminosities, variability, and archival radio luminosities—and their correlations are presented and discussed for the different blazar classes. We compare the 1LAC results with predictions regarding the γ-ray AGN populations, and we comment on the power of the sample to address the question of the blazar sequence.