2023AJ....165...42R


Query : 2023AJ....165...42R

2023AJ....165...42R - Astron. J., 165, 42 (2023/February-0)

Identifying the 3FHL Catalog. VI. Results of the 2019 Gemini Optical Spectroscopy.

RAJAGOPAL M., MARCOTULLI L., LABRIE K., MARCHESI S. and AJELLO M.

Abstract (from CDS):

Active galactic nuclei with their relativistic jets pointed toward the observer are a class of luminous gamma-ray sources commonly known as blazars. The study of this source class is essential to unveil the physical processes powering these extreme jets, to understand their cosmic evolution, as well as to indirectly probe the extragalactic background light. To do so, however, one needs to correctly classify and measure a redshift for a large sample of these sources. The Third Fermi-LAT Catalog of High-Energy Sources (3FHL) contains 1212 blazars detected at energies greater than 10 GeV. However, ∼25% of these sources are unclassified and ∼56% lack redshift information. To increase the optical completeness of blazars in the 3FHL catalog, we devised an optical spectroscopic follow-up campaign using 4 m and 8 m telescopes. In this paper, we present the results of the last part of this campaign, where we observed 5 blazars using the 8 m Gemini-S telescope in Chile. We report all the 5 sources to be classified as BL Lacs, a redshift lower limit for 2 sources, and featureless spectra for the remaining 3 sources. We also performed a one-zone leptonic fit to the two sources with the redshift lower limits.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Active galactic nuclei - Relativistic jets - Active galaxies - High energy astrophysics - Blazars - Quasars

Simbad objects: 5

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Number of rows : 5
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 1RXS J073928.1-672147 AGN 07 39 27.3721082240 -67 21 36.588728053           ~ 15 0
2 1RXS J101620.6-424733 BLL 10 16 20.6709126308 -42 47 22.568551406           ~ 28 0
3 1RXS J103332.0-503539 BLL 10 33 32.1477198726 -50 35 28.942977592           ~ 35 0
4 1RXS J103438.7-464412 BL? 10 34 38.4805819655 -46 44 03.582284119           ~ 14 0
5 NVSS J104757-373729 BLL 10 47 56.9329649145 -37 37 30.849293270           ~ 21 0

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