The Gamma-ray Luminosity Function of Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars

2025/10/07 by Rajguru, Garima, Marcotulli, Lea, Ajello, Marco +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2510.05515

Abstract

We have utilized the largest sample of γ-ray selected Fermi flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) ever used (519 sources) to construct the luminosity function and its evolution through the cosmic history. In addition to spanning large redshift (0

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