A MST catalogue of gamma-ray source candidates above 10 GeV and at Galactic latitudes higher than 20 degrees [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01176


We describe a catalogue of gamma-ray source candidates, selected using the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm on the 9-years Fermi-LAT sky (Pass 8) at energies higher than 10 GeV. The extragalactic sky at absolute Galactic latitudes above 20 degrees has been investigated using rather restrictive selection criteria, resulting in a total sample of 1342 sources. Of these, 249 are new detections, not previously associated with gamma-ray catalogues. A large fraction of them have interesting counterparts, most likely blazars. In this paper the main results on the catalogue selection and search of counterparts are reported.

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R. Campana, E. Massaro and E. Bernieri
Mon, 6 Aug 18
18/33

Comments: 18 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics