Systematic Search for X-ray Counterparts of Fermi-LAT Unassociated Sources Using Swift Observations

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We are using Swift to search for X-ray and UV/optical counterparts of unassociated Fermi gamma-ray sources, which are likely to be dominated by new gamma-ray blazars and may also harbor pulsars, as well as new exciting source classes. This Swift program includes pointed observations, with typical durations of 5 ks, of approximately 300 of the Fermi catalog sources with no currently known source association at other wavelengths. For each of the Fermi-LAT localization ellipses, Swift-XRT obtains accurate source positions ( 5 arcsec) of any detected X-ray sources, enabling new blazar identification observations and pulsation searches at both radio and gamma-ray wavelengths. Together with follow-up at other wavelengths, this study aims to reveal the nature of these unassociated and unidentified gamma-ray sources. Initial results from this program will be presented, along with information about the publicly available archive of analyzed data.

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