2025ApJS..278...11L -
Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 278, 11 (2025/May-0)
Discerning Misclassified Flat-spectrum Radio Quasars from Low-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae Objects.
LIANG S., YANG W.G., ZHENG Y.G. and KANG S.J.
Abstract (from CDS):
A sample of 312 low-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae objects (LBLs) and 694 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) with the parameters of both redshift and gamma-ray photon spectral index (Γγ) is compiled from the Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Data Release 2 from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The multiwavelength data of the sample sources are downloaded from the Space Science Data Center, and then matched to the corresponding gamma-ray data from the Fermi-LAT Fourth Source Catalog Data Release 2. The synchrotron radiation peak frequency and Compton dominance (CD) parameters of the sources are obtained by using a log-parabolic model to fit the average-state multiwavelength spectral energy distribution. A support vector machine in the $\mathrm{log}{L}_{\gamma }$-Γγ frame is utilized to delineate the optimal boundary between FSRQs and LBL sources. The 1σ position of the Gaussian fitting on the histograms of the Γγ, $\mathrm{log}{\nu }_{\mathrm{peak}}^{\mathrm{syn}}$, and CD parameter distributions are also introduced. With this criterion, 25 FSRQ candidates are selected from LBL sample sources. The optical spectral identification result confirms that 8 out of 13 candidate sources available with the optical spectral data exhibit the relationship of EW > 5 Å.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Flat-spectrum radio quasars - BL Lacertae objects
Status at CDS
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Large table(s) of objects being ingested in VizieR.
Simbad objects:
1265
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