Description
By cross-correlating an archival sample of 170 BL Lacs with a 2 year Fermi/LAT AGN sample, we have compiled a sample of 100 BL Lacs with Fermi detection (FBLs) and a sample of 70 non-Fermi BL Lacs (NFBLs). We compared various parameters of FBLs with those of NFBLs, including the redshift, the low-frequency radio luminosity at 408MHz (L_408MHz_), the absolute magnitude of host galaxies (M_host_), the polarization fraction from the NVSS survey (P_NVSS_), the observed arcsecond scale radio core flux at 5GHz (F_core_), and the jet Doppler factor. All these parameters are directly measured or derived from available data in the literature. We found that the Doppler factor is on average greater in FBLs than in NFBLs, and the Fermi {gamma}-ray detection rate is higher in sources with higher Doppler factor. In contrast, there are no significant differences in terms of the intrinsic parameters of redshift, L_408MHz_, M_host_, and P_NVSS_. FBLs seem to have a higher probability of exhibiting measurable proper motion.
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