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SELECTION CRITERIA

Blazars

From the blazars included in the Roma-BZCAT catalogue, we selected 48 high-priority targets based on mutual visibility of KM3NeT and Noto tele-
scope (−34° < Dec < 55°) and the following criteria:

  • A flux-density cut of F1 GHz>1 Jy, resulting in a parent sample of 216 radio-bright blazars.
  • Identification of the most promising neutrino candidates by applying beaming-based thresholds (based on MOJAVE beaming indicators; Homan et al. 2021):
    • Doppler factor D>20
    • viewing angle θ<2.5°
  • Inclusion of very bright blazars with F1 GHz>4 Jy, even if they do not strictly satisfy the above D and θ criteria, due to their high observational relevance.
  • Inclusion of the two blazars TXS 0506+056 and PKS 1424+240 identified as neutrino sources from IceCube data (IceCube Collaboration 2018; Padovani et al. 2022).

Seyfert Galaxies

From the Seyfert Galaxies included in the Turin-SyCAT2 catalogue, we selected 13 high-priority Seyfert galaxies with −34° < Dec < 55° based on the following criteria:

  • Seyfert galaxies with confirmed NVSS (1.4 GHz) radio counterparts and F1 GHz>100 mJy.
  • X-ray luminosity LX≥1042 erg s−1 from the Swift-BAT 105-month survey (Oh et al. 2018).

This sample also includes 3 Seyfert galaxies for which an excess of neutrino events has been reported by IceCube (Neronov et al. 2024).

Microquasars

We considered as high-priority observing sources all the known microquasars with −34° < Dec < 55°.