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The nature of the unassociated 2FGL sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2015

T. Pursimo
Affiliation:
Nordic Optical Telescope, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain email: tpursimo@not.iac.es
R. Ojha
Affiliation:
UMBC/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
E. Ferrara
Affiliation:
UMBC/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
F. Acero
Affiliation:
Laboratoire AIM, CEA Saclay, France
H. Johnston
Affiliation:
Sydney Institute for Astronomy, Australia
O. Titov
Affiliation:
Geoscience Australia, Australia
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Abstract

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The majority of Fermi-LAT detected (2FGL) sources are AGN, mostly blazars. However, the second largest category in the 2FGL are unassociated sources (~30% or 575 sources), whose multi-wavelength counterpart is either inconclusive or absent. Follow-up observations and archival data at X-ray, optical, and radio frequencies suggest that many unassociated 2FGL sources are strong candidates to be AGN. Typical observed characteristics of 2FGL detected AGN include variability at all frequencies and a spectral energy distribution (SED) with two “bumps”; a low-frequency synchrotron peak in the radio to optical/X-ray region and a high-frequency peak, possibly due to synchrotron self-Compton or Inverse Compton processes, that extends up to TeV energies. We present optical follow-up observations of a sample of Fermi unassociated sources with one or more potential X-ray counterparts detected within the LAT error circle.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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