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The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. A. Porter

We have performed a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey of local (z < 0.05) ultra hard X-ray (14-195 keV) selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) using KVN, KaVA, and VLBA. We first…

The spatial extension of a gamma-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties as well as its potential multi-wavelength counterpart. The capability to spatially resolve gamma-ray sources is greatly improved by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-12 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. M. Cohen , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , C. Sgro , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood , M. Wood

The third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) presented the data of the first four years of observations from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. There are 3034 sources, 1010 of which still remain unidentified. Identifying and classifying…

FERMI-LAT is performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey from 20 MeV to >300 GeV with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. FERMI is the only mission able to detect high energy (>20 MeV) emission from the Sun during the new solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 G. Iafrate , F. Longo , N. Giglietto , M. Brigida

We report the detection of a new gamma-ray source in the Fermi-LAT sky using a source detection tool based on the Minimal Spanning Tree algorithm. The source, not reported in previous LAT catalogues but very recently observed in the X-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Bernieri , R. Campana , E. Massaro , A. Paggi , A. Tramacere

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) was launched on June 11, 2008 and began its first year sky survey on August 11, 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), a wide field-of-view pair-conversion telescope covering the energy range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-30 Peter F. Michelson , William B. Atwood , Steven Ritz

The first three months of sky-survey operation with the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) Large Area Telescope (LAT) reveals 132 bright sources at |b|>10 deg with test statistic greater than 100 (corresponding to about 10 sigma). Two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-30 A. A. Abdo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides both direct and indirect measurements of Galactic cosmic rays (CR). The LAT high-statistics observations of the 7 GeV - 1 TeV electron plus positron spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 David J. Thompson , Luca Baldini , Yasunobu Uchiyama

The recent release of the First Fermi-LAT Source Catalog solidified the predominant association of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters to active galaxies, in particular blazars. A tight connection between AGN jet kinematics and gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-25 Marios Karouzos , Silke Britzen , Arno Witzel , Anton Zensus , Andreas Eckart

Analysis is presented on 15 months of data taken with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for 11 non-blazar AGNs, including 7 FRI radio galaxies and 4 FRII radio sources consisting of 2 FRII radio galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

The gamma-ray blazar PKS 0208-512 has shown strong periods of flaring, at all frequencies from radio to gamma-ray. This has led to its inclusion in the TANAMI project, which tracks the jets of southern AGN using VLBI as well as supporting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-28 J. M. Blanchard , J. E. J. Lovell , J. Dickey , R. Ojha , M. Kadler , R. Nesci , P. G. Edwards , J. Stevens , M. Dutka , C. Muller , T. Pursimo

Before the launch of the Fermi satellite only two classes of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) were known to generate relativistic jets and thus to emit up to the gamma-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies, both hosted in giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , M. Giroletti , J. Larsson

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) having relativistic jets aligned within a few degrees of our line-of-sight and form the majority of the AGN detected in the TeV regime. The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Atreya Acharyya , Alberto C. Sadun

The development of techniques whereby gamma rays of energy 100 GeV and above can be studied from the ground, using indirect, but sensitive, techniques has opened up a new area of high energy photon astronomy. The most exciting result that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Horan , T. C. Weekes

We use nine years of gamma-ray data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to systematically study the light curves of more than two thousand active galactic nuclei (AGN) included in recent Fermi-LAT catalogs. Ten different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 P. Peñil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , J. Otero-Santos , J. A. Barrio , R. Nemmen , S. Cutini , B. Rani , A. Franckowiak , E. Cavazzuti

The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Denys Malyshev , Lars Mohrmann

We investigate the contribution of the beamed jet component to the high energy emission in young and compact extragalactic radio sources, focusing for the first time on the gamma-ray band. We derive predictions on the gamma-ray luminosities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Giulia Migliori , Aneta Siemiginowska , Brandon C. Kelly , Lukasz Stawarz , Annalisa Celotti , Mitchell C. Begelman

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Thompson , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

Unassociated Fermi-LAT sources provide a population with discovery potential. We discuss efforts to find new source associations for this population, and summarize the successes to date. We discuss how the measured gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Roopesh Ojha , Maria Elena Monzani , Nicola Omodei