Two new catalogs of blazar candidates

DOI

We present two catalogs of radio-loud candidate blazars whose Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mid-infrared colors are selected to be consistent with the colors of confirmed {gamma}-ray-emitting blazars. The first catalog is the improved and expanded release of the WISE Blazar-like Radio-Loud Sources (WIBRaLS) catalog presented by D'Abrusco et al. It includes sources detected in all four WISE filters, spatially cross-matched with radio sources in one of three radio surveys and radio-loud based on their q_22_ spectral parameter. WIBRaLS2 includes 9541 sources classified as BL Lacs, flat-spectrum radio quasars, or mixed candidates based on their WISE colors. The second catalog, called KDEBLLACS, based on a new selection technique, contains 5579 candidate BL Lacs extracted from the population of WISE sources detected in the first three WISE passbands ([3.4], [4.6], and [12]) only, whose mid-infrared colors are similar to those of confirmed, {gamma}-ray BL Lacs. Members of KDBLLACS are also required to have a radio counterpart and be radio-loud based on the parameter q_12_, defined similarly to the q_22_ used for the WIBRaLS2. We describe the properties of these catalogs and compare them with the largest samples of confirmed and candidate blazars in the literature. We cross-match the two new catalogs with the most recent catalogs of {gamma}-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Since spectroscopic observations of candidate blazars from the first WIBRaLS catalog within the uncertainty regions of {gamma}-ray unassociated sources confirmed that ~90% of these candidates are blazars, we anticipate that these new catalogs will again play an important role in the identification of the {gamma}-ray sky.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/242/4/table3 (*WIBRaLS2 catalog)

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/242/4/table5 (KDEBLLACS catalog)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22420004
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Provenance
Creator D'Abrusco R.; Alvarez Crespo N.; Massaro F.; Campana R.; Chavushyan V.,Landoni M.; La Franca F.; Masetti N.; Milisavljevic D.; Paggi A.; Ricci F.,Smith H.A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2020
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics