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  • CGRaBS: An All-Sky Survey o...
    Healey, Stephen E; Romani, Roger W; Cotter, Garret; Michelson, Peter F; Schlafly, Edward F; Readhead, Anthony C. S; Giommi, Paolo; Chaty, Sylvain; Grenier, Isabelle A; Weintraub, Lawrence C

    The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 03/2008, Volume: 175, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    We describe a uniform all-sky survey of bright blazars, selected primarily by their flat radio spectra, that is designed to provide a large catalog of likely Y-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The defined sample has 1625 targets with radio and X-ray properties similar to those of the EGRET blazars, spread uniformly across the degree 'b degree ' > 10 degree sky. We also report progress toward optical characterization of the sample; of objects with known R < 23, 85% have been classified and 81% have measured redshifts. One goal of this program is to focus attention on the most interesting (e.g., high-redshift, high-luminosity,...) sources for intensive multiwavelength study during the observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on GLAST.