Fermi’s Mystery Sources: Methods for Classification and Association

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2012-06-12

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Ferrara, Elizabeth C.; Ojha, Roopesh; Monzani, Maria Elena; Omodei, Nicola; Fermi’s Mystery Sources: Methods for Classification and Association; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (2012); https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2571

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Unassociated Fermi-LAT sources provide a population with discovery potential. We discuss efforts to find new source associations for this population, and summarize the successes to date. We discuss how the measured gamma-ray properties of associated LAT sources can be used to describe the gamma-ray behavior of more-numerous source classes. Using classification techniques exploiting only these gamma-ray properties, we separate the LAT 2FGL catalog sources into pulsar and AGN candidates.