2018ApJ...865L..17L


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2018ApJ...865L..17L - Astrophys. J., 865, L17-L17 (2018/October-1)

Fermi-LAT detection of a transient γ-ray source in the direction of a distant blazar B3 1428+422 at z = 4.72.

LIAO N.-H., LI S. and FAN Y.-Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the detection of a transient γ-ray source in the direction of B3 1428+422 (z = 4.72) by analyzing the 110-month Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data. The new transient γ-ray source is far away from the Galactic plane and has a rather soft spectrum, in agreement with being a high redshift blazar. We suggest that the newly discovered transient is the γ-ray counterpart of B3 1428+422, which could be the most distant GeV source detected so far. The detection of a group of such distant γ-ray blazars will be helpful in reconstructing the evolution of the luminosity function and studying the extragalactic background light at such high redshifts.

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

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: jets - gamma-rays: galaxies - quasars: individual: B3 1428+422

Simbad objects: 9

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Number of rows : 9
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 QSO B0537-286 Bla 05 39 54.28147904 -28 39 55.9481236   19.70 20.0 18.789   ~ 314 1
2 GRB 080916C gB 07 59 23.24 -56 38 16.8           ~ 386 0
3 7C 141903.20+390906.00 Bla 14 21 06.0317325120 +38 55 22.827690552   19.01 18.92 17.6   ~ 59 1
4 RX J1428.5+4240 BLL 14 28 32.6090008440 +42 40 21.048123396   16.95 16.45 14.4   ~ 549 1
5 7C 1428+4218 Bla 14 30 23.74163471 +42 04 36.4910561   24.43 22.04 20.2   ~ 157 1
6 6C 143208+421634 Bla 14 34 05.69449191 +42 03 15.9915904   20.07 19.66 20.39   ~ 99 1
7 QSO B1508+572 QSO 15 10 02.92237321 +57 02 43.3759220   22.73 21.38 19.23   ~ 223 1
8 7C 163359.70+363536.00 QSO 16 35 47.2368907728 +36 29 30.016607712           ~ 42 1
9 QSO B1830-211 Bla 18 33 39.9399138048 -21 03 39.368838780     18.70 21   ~ 724 1

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