The CLASS blazar survey - I. Selection criteria and radio properties
Abstract
This paper presents a new complete and well-defined sample of flat-spectrum radio sources (FSRS) selected from the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS), with the further constraint of a bright (mag <=17.5) optical counterpart. The sample has been designed to produce a large number of low-luminosity blazars in order to test the current unifying models in the low-luminosity regime. In this first paper the new sample is presented and the radio properties of the 325 sources contained therein are discussed.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 2001
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0108468
- Bibcode:
- 2001MNRAS.326.1455M
- Keywords:
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- surveys;
- galaxies: active;
- BL Lacertae objects: general;
- radio continuum: general;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- MNRAS in press