The detection of Fermi AGN above 100 GeV using clustering analysis

Armstrong, Thomas; Brown, Anthony M.; Chadwick, Paula; Nolan, Sam

doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1398

The detection of Fermi AGN above 100 GeV using clustering analysis

Armstrong, Thomas; Brown, Anthony M.; Chadwick, Paula; Nolan, Sam

Authors

Thomas Armstrong

Dr Anthony Brown anthony.brown@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor

Professor Paula Chadwick p.m.chadwick@durham.ac.uk
Head Of Department

Sam Nolan

Abstract

The density-based clustering algorithm DBSCAN has been applied to the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data set of Eγ ≥ 100 GeV events with |b| > 10°, in order to search for new very high energy (VHE) γ-ray sources. The clustering analysis returned 49 clusters, of which 21 correspond to already known VHE-emitting active galactic nuclei (AGN) within the TeVCat catalogue and a further 11 were found to be significant in a full Fermi analysis. Of these, two are previously detected Fermi VHE AGN, and nine represent new VHE sources consisting of six BL Lac objects, one blazar of unknown type and two unassociated sources. Comparing these, along with the VHE AGN RBS 0679 and RBS 0970 previously detected with Fermi-LAT, to the current populations of AGN detected with ground-based instruments and Fermi suggests that the VHE-emitting AGN discovered in this study are very similar to the TeVCat AGN and therefore further observations with ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes are recommended.

Citation

Armstrong, T., Brown, A. M., Chadwick, P., & Nolan, S. (2015). The detection of Fermi AGN above 100 GeV using clustering analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452(3), 3159-3166. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1398

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Jun 19, 2015
Publication Date	Sep 21, 2015
Deposit Date	Apr 10, 2015
Publicly Available Date	Aug 7, 2015
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN	0035-8711
Electronic ISSN	1365-2966
Publisher	Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	452
Issue	3
Pages	3159-3166
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1398
Keywords	Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Methods: statistical, Galaxies: active, BL Lacertae objects: general, Gamma-rays: galaxies.

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