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most citedFermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

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astro-ph.GA2026

Powerful Radio Sources in the Southern Sky. IV. Observations of the G4Jy-3CRE Catalog with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

Siegfried A. Gawenda, Juan P. Madrid, Francesco Massaro +19

A recent 2023 paper by Massaro et al. introduced the G4Jy-3CRE, a new catalog of the brightest radio sources in the southern hemisphere that serve as a southern equivalent to the T…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: III. Further host-galaxy identification, and redshift assessment

Sarah V. White, Precious K. Sejake, Kshitij Thorat +17

In this paper we present 127 new host-galaxy identifications for G4Jy sources (S_151MHz > 4 Jy), based on radio images from MeerKAT, the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS), and th…

astro-ph.GA2025

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: IV. Multiwavelength data and analysis

Sarah V. White, Precious K. Sejake, Kshitij Thorat +17

We provide an updated 'multiwavelength' version of the G4Jy catalogue (available at https://github.com/svw26/G4Jy, https://zenodo.org/communities/g4jy/records, and through VizieR),…

astro-ph.IM2025

easyspec: An open-source Python package for long-slit spectroscopy

Raniere de Menezes, Francesco Massaro, Michela Negro +3

In modern-day astronomy, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet spectroscopy are indispensable for studying a wide range of phenomena, from measuring black hole masses to analyzin…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

SALT spectroscopic follow-up of the G4Jy Sample

Sarah V. White, Kshitij Thorat, Moses Mogotsi +9

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample is a thorough compilation of the 'brightest' radio sources in the southern sky (Declination < 30 deg), as measured at 151 MHz (S > 4.0 Jy) with the Mur…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Swift-XRT follow-up analysis of unidentified hard X-ray sources

M. Kosiba, F. Massaro, A. Paggi +5

It is currently established that the sources contributing to the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) emission are mainly nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN), in particular those that are…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

Powerful Radio Sources in the Southern Sky. II. A SWIFT X-Ray Perspective

F. Massaro, S. V. White, A. Paggi +18

We recently constructed the G4Jy-3CRE, a catalog of extragalactic radio sources based on the GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) sample, with the aim of increasing the number of powerful radio galax…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited

Powerful Radio Sources in the Southern Sky. I. Optical Identifications

F. Massaro, S. V. White, A. Garcia-Perez +18

Since the early sixties, our view of radio galaxies and quasars has been drastically shaped by discoveries made thanks to observations of radio sources listed in the Third Cambridg…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Multi-Wavelength Environment of Second Bologna Catalog Sources

A. Paggi, F. Massaro, H. Peña-Herazo +11

We present the first results of the Chandra Cool Targets (CCT) survey of the Second Bologna Catalog (B2CAT) of powerful radio sources, aimed at investigating the extended X-ray emi…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

Disentangling the nature of the prototype radio weak BL Lac: Contemporaneous multifrequency observations of WISE J141046.00 + 740511.2

E. J. Marchesini, V. Reynaldi, F. Vieyro +13

Context. The gamma-ray emitting source WISE J141046.00+740511.2 has been associated with a Fermi-LAT detection by crossmatching with Swift/XRT data. It has shown all the canonical…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The cavity of 3CR 196.1: H emission spatially associated with an X-ray cavity

A. Jimenez-Gallardo, E. Sani, F. Ricci +20

We present a multifrequency analysis of the radio galaxy 3CR 196.1 (), associated with the brightest galaxy of the cool core cluster CIZAJ0815.4-0303. This nearby radio…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 129 cited

The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope -- Data Release 3

LAT collaboration, Marco Ajello, Luca Baldini +100

An incremental version of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope is presented. This version (4LAC-DR3) derives from the thir…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

A multifrequency characterization of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky

Matej Kosiba, Harold Andres Peña-Herazo, Francesco Massaro +5

Nowadays we know that the origin of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) is due to the integrated emission of nearby active galactic nuclei. Thus, to obtain a precise estimate of the…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 32 cited

An optical overview of blazars with LAMOST I: Hunting changing-look blazars and new redshift estimates

Harold A. Peña-Herazo, Francesco Massaro, Minfeng Gu +6

The extragalactic -rays sky observed by Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is dominated by blazars. In the fourth release of the Fermi-LAT Point Source Catalog (4FGL), are sources…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 6 cited

Peering Into the Extended X-ray Emission on Megaparsec Scale in 3C 187

A. Paggi, F. Massaro, H. A. Pena-Herazo +7

Context. The diffuse X-ray emission surrounding radio galaxies is generally interpreted either as due to inverse Compton scattering of non-thermal radio-emitting electrons on the C…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

Extended X-ray emission around FR II radio galaxies: hotspots, lobes and galaxy clusters

Ana Jimenez-Gallardo, Francesco Massaro, Alessandro Paggi +20

We present a systematic analysis of the extended X-ray emission discovered around 35 FR II radio galaxies from the revised Third Cambridge catalog (3CR) Chandra Snapshot Survey wit…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope -- Data Release 2

B. Lott, D. Gasparrini, S. Ciprini

An incremental version (4LAC-DR2) of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT is presented. This version is associated with the second release…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 24 cited

Optical spectroscopic observations of low-energy counterparts of Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources

H. A. Peña-Herazo, R. A. Amaya-Almazán, F. Massaro +15

A significant fraction of all -ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the \fer\ satellite is still lacking a low-energy counterpart. In addition, there is still…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 114 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog Data Release 2

J. Ballet, T. H. Burnett, S. W. Digel +1

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR2, for Data Release 2) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first ten years of science data in the energy ra…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 25 cited

Optical spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray blazar candidates. X. Results from the 2018--2019 SOAR and OAN-SPM observations of blazar candidates of uncertain type

Raniere de Menezes, Raul A. Amaya-Almazán, Ezequiel J. Marchesini +14

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL) lists over 5000 gamma-ray sources with statistical significance above 4. About 23% of the sources listed in this cata…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 26 cited

Optical spectroscopic observations of gamma-ray blazar candidates. IX. Optical archival spectra and further observations from SOAR and OAGH

H. A. Peña-Herazo, F. Massaro, V. Chavushyan +11

Nearly one-third of the sources in the -LAT catalogs lack a lower energy counterpart, hence being referred as unidentified/unassociated gamma-ray sources (UGSs). In order to…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 24 cited

Optical characterization of WISE selected blazar candidates

Raniere de Menezes, Harold A. Peña-Herazo, Ezequiel J. Marchesini +8

Over the last decade more than five thousand gamma-ray sources were detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Given the positional uncert…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 364 cited

The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT collaboration

The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains 286…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1.4k cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

LAT collaboration

We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope missio…