Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
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Result of query: info cati 2FAV JHHMM+DD.d$
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Details on Acronym:   2FAV
  
2FAV (2nd Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis Catalog)
Write:<<2FAV JHHMM+DD.d>>
N: about 518
Object:(Gamma)  (SIMBAD class: gamma = Gamma-ray Source)
Note:The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA) is an analysis technique that searches for flaring sources in data collected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. It uses a photometric approach to blindly search for flares over the entire sky, and a likelihood analysis to precisely locate them and to measure their spectra.
This catalog contains the flares and sources detected by running FAVA over the first 7.4 years of Fermi mission, from Modified Julian Date (MJD) 54682 (2008-08-04) to 57391 (2016-01-04). The analysis has been run in weekly time bin and in two independent energy bands, 100-800MeV and 0.8-300GeV. The detection threshold applied to the catalog flares is equivalent to 6sigma (pre trials).
Ref:=2017ApJ...846...34A
byABDOLLAHI S. , ACKERMANN M., AJELLO M., ALBERT A., BALDINI L., BALLET J., BARBIELLINI G., BASTIERI D., BECERRA GONZALEZ J., BELLAZZINI R., BISSALDI E., BLANDFORD R.D., BLOOM E.D., BONINO R., BOTTACINI E., BREGEON J., BRUEL P., BUEHLER R., BUSON S., CAMERON R.A., CARAGIULO M., CARAVEO P.A., CAVAZZUTI E., CECCHI C., CHEKHTMAN A., CHEUNG C.C., CHIARO G., CIPRINI S., CONRAD J., COSTANTIN D., COSTANZA F., CUTINI S., D'AMMANDO F., DE PALMA F., DESAI A., DESIANTE R., DIGEL S.W., DI LALLA N., DI MAURO M., DI VENERE L., DONAGGIO B., DRELL P.S., FAVUZZI C., FEGAN S.J., FERRARA E.C., FOCKE W.B., FRANCKOWIAK A., FUKAZAWA Y., FUNK S., FUSCO P., GARGANO F., GASPARRINI D., GIGLIETTO N., GIOMI M., GIORDANO F., GIROLETTI M., GLANZMAN T., GREEN D., GRENIER I.A., GROVE J.E., GUILLEMOT L., GUIRIEC S., HAYS E., HORAN D., JOGLER T., JOHANNESSON G., JOHNSON A.S., KOCEVSKI D., KUSS M., LA MURA G., LARSSON S., LATRONICO L., LI J., LONGO F., LOPARCO F., LOVELLETTE M.N., LUBRANO P., MAGILL J.D., MALDERA S., MANFREDA A., MAYER M., MAZZIOTTA M.N., MICHELSON P.F., MITTHUMSIRI W., MIZUNO T., MONZANI M.E., MORSELLI A., MOSKALENKO I.V., NEGRO M., NUSS E., OHSUGI T., OMODEI N., ORIENTI M., ORLANDO E., PALIYA V.S., PANEQUE D., PERKINS J.S., PERSIC M., PESCE-ROLLINS M., PETROSIAN V., PIRON F., PORTER T.A., PRINCIPE G., RAINO S., RANDO R., RAZZANO M., RAZZAQUE S., REIMER A., REIMER O., SGRO C., SIMONE D., SISKIND E.J., SPADA F., SPANDRE G., SPINELLI P., STAWARZ L., SUSON D.J., TAKAHASHI M., TANAKA K., THAYER J.B., THOMPSON D.J., TORRES D.F., TORRESI E., TOSTI G., TROJA E., VIANELLO G., WOOD K.S.
 Astrophys. J., 846, 34-34 (2017)
  The second catalog of flaring γ-ray sources from the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis.
oTable 2: <2FAV JHHMM+DD.d> N=518. DESY, Zeuthen
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/ApJ/846/34/>
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5