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2018ApJ...865L..17L - Astrophys. J., 865, L17-L17 (2018/October-1)

Fermi-LAT detection of a transient γ-ray source in the direction of a distant blazar B3 1428+422 at z = 4.72.

LIAO N.-H., LI S. and FAN Y.-Z.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the detection of a transient γ-ray source in the direction of B3 1428+422 (z = 4.72) by analyzing the 110-month Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data. The new transient γ-ray source is far away from the Galactic plane and has a rather soft spectrum, in agreement with being a high redshift blazar. We suggest that the newly discovered transient is the γ-ray counterpart of B3 1428+422, which could be the most distant GeV source detected so far. The detection of a group of such distant γ-ray blazars will be helpful in reconstructing the evolution of the luminosity function and studying the extragalactic background light at such high redshifts.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: high-redshift - galaxies: jets - gamma-rays: galaxies - quasars: individual: B3 1428+422

Simbad objects: 11

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