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Context. Blazars are among the most energetic objects in the Universe. In 2008 August, Fermi/LAT detected the blazar PKS 1502+106 showing a rapid and strong gamma-ray outburst followed by high and variable flux over the next months. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 V. Karamanavis , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Angelakis , J. Hodgson , I. Nestoras , I. Myserlis , J. A. Zensus , A. Sievers , S. Ciprini

We present preliminary results of a statistical analysis obtained with a sample of blazars observed at the Perugia Astronomical Observatory since 1992. We briefly show how these statistical results can be useful to discriminate faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Fiorucci , N. Marchili , G. Tosti , S. Ciprini , F. Marcucci , A. Tramacere

The forthcoming launch of the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT) will transform our understanding of the transient ultraviolet sky by increasing our ability to identify transients due to its unprecedented 204 deg2 field of…

The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been routinely gathering science data since August 2008, surveying the full sky every three hours. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV (1FHL) relied on three years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , D. Gasparrini , S. Cutini

Variability Search Toolkit (VaST) is a software package designed to find variable objects in a series of sky images. It can be run from a script or interactively using its graphical interface. VaST relies on source list matching as opposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-19 Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Alexandr A. Lebedev

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its improved sensitivity relative to previous generation gamma-ray telescopes, is significantly increasing the number of known gamma-ray sources in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 P. M. Saz Parkinson , M. Dormody , M. Ziegler

This article considers the detection of point sources in two dimensional astronomical images. The detection scheme we propose is based on peak statistics. We discuss the example of the detection of far galaxies in Cosmic Microwave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Lopez-Caniego , D. Herranz , J. L. Sanz , R. B. Barreiro

The New Vacuum Solar Telescope (NVST) is a 1-m solar telescope that aims to observe the fine structures in both the photosphere and the chromosphere of the Sun. The observational data acquired simultaneously from one channel for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-23 Ying-bo Liu , Feng Wang , Hui Deng , Kai-fan Ji , Wei Dai , Shou-lin Wei , Bo Liang , Xiao-li Zhang

The radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). In total, 232 sources were observed with…

Gamma-ray observations ranging from hundreds of MeV to tens of TeV are a valuable tool for studying particle acceleration and diffusion within our galaxy. Supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and star-forming regions are the main…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-19 Alisha Chromey

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a diverse range of gamma-ray transients since its launch in 2008. Over the years, Fermi has accumulated an extensive public archive of transient events. Traditional classification methods for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Arpan Aryam John , Krushna Govind Shete , Shabnam Iyyani , Saptarshi Bej

We present a stacking method that makes use of co-added maps of gamma-ray counts produced from data taken with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Sources with low integrated gamma-ray fluxes that are not detected individually may become…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Huber , C. Farnier , A. Manalaysay , U. Straumann , R. Walter

We present the first individual and stacking systematic search for $\gamma$-ray emission in the GeV band with the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), in the directions of 45 super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe). No excess of \gam rays from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Nicolas Renault-Tinacci , Kumiko Kotera , Andrii Neronov , Shin'ichiro Ando

High sensitivity radio searches of unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources have proven to be an effective way of finding new pulsars. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) during its commissioning phase, we have…

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first three years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 LAT Collaboration

From the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to July 9, 2010, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected 497 probable GRB events. Twenty-two of these satisfy the simultaneous requirements of an estimated burst direction within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. W. Akerlof , W. Zheng , S. B. Pandey , T. A. McKay

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on June 11, 2008, 55 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been observed at coordinates that fall within 66^\circ of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) boresight with precise localizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. W. Akerlof , W. Zheng , S. B. Pandey , T. A. McKay

3C 216 is an extragalactic radio source classified as a compact steep spectrum (CSS) object, associated with the source 4FGL J0910.0+4257 detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 Federica Giacchino , Giovanni La Mura , Stefano Ciprini , Dario Gasparrini , Marcello Giroletti , Marco Laurenti

Nearly 1/3 of the sources listed in the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog (3FGL) remain unassociated. It is possible that predicted and even unanticipated gamma-ray source classes are present in these data waiting to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 N. Mirabal , E. Charles , E. C. Ferrara , P. L. Gonthier , A. K. Harding , M. A. Sánchez-Conde , D. J. Thompson

We report on the results of deep X-ray follow-up observations of four unidentified Fermi/LAT gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes using Suzaku. The studied objects were detected with high significance during the first 3 months of…