| Grant number: | 18/24801-6 |
| Support type: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Effective date (Start): | February 09, 2019 |
| Effective date (End): | February 08, 2020 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Astronomy |
| Principal Investigator: | Rodrigo Nemmen da Silva |
| Grantee: | Raniere Maciel de Menezes |
| Supervisor abroad: | Francesco Massaro |
| Home Institution: | Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas (IAG). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Local de pesquisa : | Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO), Italy |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 16/25484-9 - Optical observations of blazar candidates and unknown gamma-ray sources, BP.DR |
Abstract About one-third of the gamma-ray sources listed in the third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog have no firmly established counterpart at lower energies and so are classified as unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGSs). Identifying the low energy counterpart of the UGSs is one of the major scientific challenges faced by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration and is being inspected in many different ways. In this project, a multislit spectroscopy campaign will be performed with the telescopes SOAR and Blanco in an effort to identify the likely blazars among the Fermi-LAT UGSs. | |