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Bl Lacertae Objects Beyond Redshift 1.3 – Uv-To-Nir Photometry And Photometric Redshift For Fermi/Lat Blazars, A. Rau, P. Schady, J. Greiner, M. Salvato, M. Ajello, E. Bottacini, N. Gehrels, P.M.J. Afonso, J. Elliott, R. Filgas, D.A. Kann, S. Klose, T. Krühler, M. Nardini, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, F. Olivares E., A. Rossi, V. Sudilovsky, Adria Updike, D.H. Hartmann Jan 2012

Bl Lacertae Objects Beyond Redshift 1.3 – Uv-To-Nir Photometry And Photometric Redshift For Fermi/Lat Blazars, A. Rau, P. Schady, J. Greiner, M. Salvato, M. Ajello, E. Bottacini, N. Gehrels, P.M.J. Afonso, J. Elliott, R. Filgas, D.A. Kann, S. Klose, T. Krühler, M. Nardini, A. Nicuesa Guelbenzu, F. Olivares E., A. Rossi, V. Sudilovsky, Adria Updike, D.H. Hartmann

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Context. Observations of the γ-ray sky with Fermi led to significant advances towards understanding blazars, the most extreme class of active galactic nuclei. A large fraction of the population detected by Fermi is formed by BL Lacertae (BL Lac) objects, whose sample has always suffered from a severe redshift incompleteness due to the quasi-featureless optical spectra. Aims. Our goal is to provide a significant increase of the number of confirmed high-redshift BL Lac objects contained in the 2 LAC Fermi/LAT cataloge.Methods. For 103 Fermi/LAT blazars, photometric redshifts using spectral energy distribution fitting have been obtained.The photometry includes 13 broad-band filters …