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Hunting distant BL Lacs with the photometric technique using Swift and SARA

BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) represent a large fraction (22\%) of gamma-ray sources in the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (3FGL). Nearly half of the BL Lac population remains without a redshift because of their featureless optical spectra. We aim to increase the number of BL Lacs with a redshift measurement by using the photometric technique. For this work, we have used 6 Swift-UVOT filters and SDSS g,r,i,z optical filters mounted on the 0.65 m SARA-CTIO located in Chile and the 1.0 m SARA-ORM in Canary Islands. A sample of 45 sources was selected from the 3FGL catalog for which photometry was performed in 10 optical and UV filters to obtain redshift measurements. We found 3 sources with z>1.3 while reliable upper limits have been derived for 17 sources. The results presented here bring the total number of high-z (z>1.3) BL Lacs to 29.

preprint2020arXivOpen access

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