出版社:SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要:We present a new catalog of blazars based on multi-frequency surveys and on an extensive review
of the literature data. Blazars are classified as BL Lacertae objects, as Flat spectrum radio Quasars
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 is being built as a tool useful for the identification of the extragalactic sources that
will be detected by present and future experiments for X and gamma-ray astronomy, like Swift,
AGILE, GLAST and SIMBOL-X. An electronic version is available from the ASI Science Data
Center web site at http://www.asdc.asi.it/bzcat. The on-line list includes more than 2500 objects
and is continuously updated.