Australia Telescope Compact Array observations of Fermi unassociated sources

Abstract

We report results of the first phase of observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) at 5 and 9 GHz of the fields around 411 gamma-ray sources with declinations < +10 deg detected by Fermi but marked as unassociated in the 2FGL catalogue. We have detected 424 sources with flux densities in a range of 2 mJy to 6 Jy that lie within the 99 per cent localisation uncertainty of 283 gamma-ray sources. Of these, 146 objects were detected in both the 5 and 9 GHz bands. We found 84 sources in our sample with a spectral index flatter than -0.5. The majority of detected sources are weaker than 100 mJy and for this reason were not found in previous surveys. Approximately 1/3 of our sample, 128 objects, have the probability of being associated by more than 10 times than the probability of being a background source found in the vicinity of a gamma-ray object by chance. We present the catalogue of positions of these sources, estimates of their flux densities and spectral indices where available.

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 9 pages, 7 figures, 3 ascii tables. The tables can be found in the tar-ball of this submission. Revised according to reviewers comments. Contents of tables slightly changed after version 1

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