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2018AJ....156..212M - Astron. J., 156, 212-212 (2018/November-0)

Identifying the 3FHL Catalog. II. Results of the KOSMOS optical spectroscopy campaign.

MARCHESI S., KAUR A. and AJELLO M.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the results of the optical spectroscopy follow up of a sample of 28 unclassified blazars from the Third Fermi-LAT Catalog of High-Energy Sources (3FHL). All the spectra were taken with the 4 m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak. With this follow-up program, we are able to classify 27 out of 28 objects as BL Lacs, while the remaining one is a flat spectrum radio quasar. We determine a redshift (z) for three of these objects and a lower limit on z for other four sources: the farthest object for which we obtain a redshift has z > 0.836. These results are part of a more extended campaign of optical spectroscopy follow up of 3FHL blazars, aimed to obtain a complete sample of blazars at >10 GeV, which will then be used to extend our knowledge on blazar emission mechanisms and on the extragalactic background light.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): BL Lacertae objects: general - galaxies: distances and redshifts - galaxies: nuclei

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