Roma-BZCAT: A multifrequency catalogue of Blazars

By E. Massaro, P. Giommi, C. Leto, P. Marchegiani, A. Maselli, M. Perri, S. Piranomonte, S. Sclavi. 2008

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We present a new catalogue of blazars based on multi-frequency surveys and on an extensive review of the literature. Blazars are classified as BL Lacertae objects, as flat spectrum radio quas ars or as blazars of uncertain/transitional type. Each object is identified by a root name, coded as BZB, BZQ and BZU for these three subclasses respectively, and by its coordinates. This catalogue i s being built as a tool useful for the identification of the extragala ctic sources that will be detected by present and future experiments for X and gamma-ray astronomy, like Swift, AGILE, Fermi-GLAST and Simbol-X. An electronic version is available from the ASI Science Data Center web site at http://www.asdc.asi.it/bzcat.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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THE FIRST FERMI-LAT CATALOG OF SOURCES ABOVE 10 GeV (2013, methodology): “For the Bayesian method, we used the 13th edition of the Veron catalog (Véron-Cetty & Véron 2010), version 20 of BZCAT (Massaro et al. 2009), the 2010 December 5 version of the VLBA Calibrator Source List,86 and version 3.400 of the TeVCat catalog.”
THE THIRD CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE (2015, methodology): “Optical Classification To optically classify a source we made use of different resources, in decreasing order of precedence: optical spectra from our intensive follow-up program (Shaw et al. 2013), the BZCAT list (i.e., classification from this list, which is a compilation of sources ever classified”
SEARCHING FOR DARK MATTER ANNIHILATION IN RECENTLY DISCOVERED MILKY WAY SATELLITES WITH FERMI-LAT (2016, background): “We also investigated associations with sources observed at other wavelengths that are potential γ-ray emitters in the BZCAT (Massaro et al. 2009), CRATES (Healey et al. 2007), CGraBS (Healey et al. 2008), PMN (Wright et al. 1994), and WISE blazar candidate (D’Abrusco et al. 2014) catalogs.”
The Half Million Quasars (HMQ) Catalogue (2015, methodology): “There is an on-line compendium of blazars, the BZCAT (Massaro et al. 2009) which has been used as a check and a reference, but not as a definitive guide.”
The 5th edition of the Roma-BZCAT. A short presentation (2015, methodology): “Thus these sources were included in the Roma-BZCAT as blazars of uncertain type or BZU, together with sources with data too poor for a safe classification.”
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. I. Spectral Measurements, Derived Quantities, and AGN Demographics (2017, neutral): “We then cross-match this sample to the Roma Blazar Catalog (BZCAT) catalog (Massaro et al. 2009) and identify 11% (96/836) of AGN as possibly beamed sources, such as blazars or flat spectrum radio quasars where Doppler boosting may amplify the non-thermal emission including the hard X-rays.”
THE EVOLUTION OF SWIFT/BAT BLAZARS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE MeV BACKGROUND (2009, methodology): “In order to securely identify and classify BAT sources as blazars, we relied mainly on the blazar catalog (BZCAT) of Massaro et al. (2009) which contains only bona-fide blazars.”
THE FIRST CATALOG OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI DETECTED BY THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE (2010, background): “The Galactic latitude distributions for FSRQs and BL Lacs are shown in Figure 8 along with the corresponding distributions for the Roma-BZCAT and 1FGL.”
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog (2017, methodology): “We flagged all blazars in our sample according to the latest release (5.0.0, Massaro et al. 2015) of the Roma BZCAT28 catalog (Massaro et al. 2009), and using the results of recent works on BAT detected blazars (Ajello et al. 2009; Maselli et al. 2013).”
The 105-Month Swift-BAT All-sky Hard X-Ray Survey (2018, neutral): “022 (Massaro et al. 2009) for reference to beamed AGN.”
THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF FERMI-DETECTED FLAT-SPECTRUM RADIO QUASARS (2011, background): “Among these catalogs, the most important ones are the Combined Radio All-sky Targeted Eight GHz Survey (CRATES; Healey et al. 2007), the Candidate Gamma-Ray Blazar Survey (CGRaBS; Healey et al. 2008), and the Roma-BZCAT (Massaro et al. 2009), which is a catalog of blazars identiﬁed at all frequencie”