Information on resource 'WISE High Synchroton Peak blazar candidates catalog'

The catalog 1WHSP is the result of a multi-frequency selection for blazars like SED, further filtered using IR-radio and IR-X-ray flux-ratios. The sample assembled contains almost 992 sources of HSP blazars, of which 425 are previously known blazars, 151 new identifications and 416 blazar candidates. On the very high energy trend, 299 are confirmed GeV gamma-ray photons emitters and 36 have already been detected in the TeV band.

We assembled a sample including 992 sources, which is currently the largest existing list of confirmed and candidates HSP blazars. All objects are expected to radiate up to the highest gamma-ray photon energies. In fact, 299 of these are confirmed emitters of GeV gamma-ray photons (based on Fermi-LAT catalogues), and 36 have already been detected in the TeV band. The majority of sources in the sample are within reach of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), and many may be detectable even by the current generation of Cherenkov telescopes during flaring episodes. The sample includes 425 previously known blazars, 151 new identifications, and 416 HSP candidates (mostly faint sources) for which no optical spectra is available yet. The sample was defined starting from a primary list of infrared colour-colour selected sources from the ALLWISE all sky survey database, and applying further restrictions on IR-radio and IR-X-ray flux ratios. Using a polynomial fit to the multi-frequency data (radio to X-ray) we estimated synchrotron peak frequencies and fluxes of each object.

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