Title
Incremental Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog
Date Issued
01 June 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abdollahi S.
Acero F.
Baldini L.
Ballet J.
Bastieri D.
Bellazzini R.
Berenji B.
Berretta A.
Bissaldi E.
Blandford R.D.
Bloom E.
Bonino R.
Brill A.
Britto R.J.
Bruel P.
Burnett T.H.
Buson S.
Cameron R.A.
Caputo R.
Caraveo P.A.
Castro D.
Chaty S.
Cheung C.C.
Chiaro G.
Cibrario N.
Ciprini S.
Coronado-Blázquez J.
Crnogorcevic M.
Cutini S.
D'Ammando F.
De Gaetano S.
Digel S.W.
Di Lalla N.
Dirirsa F.
Di Venere L.
Domínguez A.
Fallah Ramazani V.
Fegan S.J.
Ferrara E.C.
Fiori A.
Fleischhack H.
Franckowiak A.
Fukazawa Y.
Funk S.
Fusco P.
Galanti G.
Gammaldi V.
Gargano F.
Garrappa S.
Gasparrini D.
Giacchino F.
Giglietto N.
Giordano F.
Giroletti M.
Glanzman T.
Green D.
Grenier I.A.
Grondin M.H.
Guillemot L.
Guiriec S.
Gustafsson M.
Harding A.K.
Hays E.
Hewitt J.W.
Horan D.
Hou X.
Jóhannesson G.
Karwin C.
Kayanoki T.
Kerr M.
Kuss M.
Landriu D.
Larsson S.
Latronico L.
Lemoine-Goumard M.
Li J.
Liodakis I.
Longo F.
Loparco F.
Lott B.
Lubrano P.
Maldera S.
Malyshev D.
Manfreda A.
Martí-Devesa G.
Mazziotta M.N.
Mereu I.
Meyer M.
Michelson P.F.
Mirabal N.
Mitthumsiri W.
Mizuno T.
Moiseev A.A.
Monzani M.E.
Morselli A.
Moskalenko I.V.
Negro M.
Nuss E.
Omodei N.
Orienti M.
Publisher(s)
American Astronomical Society
Abstract
We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR3, for Data Release 3) of the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of 3-ray sources. Based on the first 12 years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it contains 6658 sources. The analysis improves on that used for the 4FGL catalog over eight years of data: more sources are fit with curved spectra, we introduce a more robust spectral parameterization for pulsars, and we extend the spectral points to 1 TeV. The spectral parameters, spectral energy distributions, and associations are updated for all sources. Light curves are rebuilt for all sources with 1 yr intervals (not 2 month intervals). Among the 5064 original 4FGL sources, 16 were deleted, 112 are formally below the detection threshold over 12 yr (but are kept in the list), while 74 are newly associated, 10 have an improved association, and seven associations were withdrawn. Pulsars are split explicitly between young and millisecond pulsars. Pulsars and binaries newly detected in LAT sources, as well as more than 100 newly classified blazars, are reported. We add three extended sources and 1607 new point sources, mostly just above the detection threshold, among which eight are considered identified, and 699 have a plausible counterpart at other wavelengths. We discuss the degree-scale residuals to the global sky model and clusters of soft unassociated point sources close to the Galactic plane, which are possibly related to limitations of the interstellar emission model and missing extended sources.
Volume
260
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85134542146
Source
Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
ISSN of the container
00670049
Sponsor(s)
Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work is performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden.
The identified and associated sources in the 4FGL-DR3 catalog include many Galactic and extragalactic source classes (see Section ). The largest Galactic source class continues to be pulsars, with 135 young, 120 millisecond γ-ray pulsars, and 37 associations to non-LAT pulsars (mostly MSP). Other Galactic source classes have continued to grow; 35 GLCs, 43 SNRs, and 19 PWNe are now associated with LAT sources. Blazars remain the largest class of extragalactic sources, with 2251 identified or associated with BLLs or FSRQ active galaxies and 1492 with unclassified blazars. (Manchester et al. ). This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED; ), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and of archival data, software, and online services provided by the ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) operated by the Italian Space Agency. We used the Manitoba SNR catalog (Ferrand & Safi-Harb ) to check recently published extended sources. We acknowledge the Einstein@Home project for providing new pulsar associations through the dedicated efforts of the Einstein@Home volunteers. The Einstein@Home project is supported by the NSF award 1816904. (Porter et al. ), HEALPix (Górski et al. ), Aladin, TOPCAT (Taylor ).
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