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We utilized a sample from the Fermi-LAT 14-year Source Catalog by adjusting the flux detection threshold, enabling us to derive the intrinsic source count distribution $dN/dF_{25}$ of extragalactic blazars using nonparametric, unbinned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 Xuhang Yin , Houdun Zeng

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released the Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources (3FHL), which contains 1556 sources detected above 10 GeV with seven years of Pass 8 data. We investigate the source count…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Hannes-S. Zechlin , Marco Ajello , Eric Charles , Fiorenza Donato

The source-count distribution as a function of their flux, dN/dS, is one of the main quantities characterizing gamma-ray source populations. We employ statistical properties of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) photon counts map to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-28 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Andrea Vittino

We present an analysis of the intrinsic (unattenuated by the extragalactic background light, EBL) power-law spectral indices of 128 extragalactic sources detected up to z~2 with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) at very high energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 Alberto Domínguez , Marco Ajello

Over the past 16 years, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has significantly advanced our view of the GeV gamma-ray sky, yet several key questions remain - such as the composition of the isotropic gamma-ray background, the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher Eckner , Noemi Anau Montel , Florian List , Francesca Calore , Christoph Weniger

We present a determination of the distributions of photon spectral index and gamma-ray flux - the so called LogN-LogS relation - for the 352 blazars detected with a greater than approximately seven sigma detection threshold and located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Singal , V. Petrosian , M. Ajello

With ten years of operation and an exceptional dataset, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope allows us to unveil the detailed composition of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky above $\rm 100\,MeV$. In this paper, we derive the intrinsic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Lea Marcotulli , Mattia Di Mauro , Marco Ajello

We present a determination of the distributions of gamma-ray photon flux -- the so called LogN-LogS relation -- and photon spectral index for blazars, based on the third extragalactic source catalog of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 J. Singal

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 LAT Collaboration

Statistical properties of photon count maps have recently been proven as a new tool to study the composition of the gamma-ray sky with high precision. We employ the 1-point probability distribution function of 6 years of Fermi-LAT data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-01 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis

The global contribution of unresolved gamma-ray point sources to the extragalactic gamma-ray background has been recently measured down to gamma-ray fluxes lower than those reached with standard source detection techniques, and by employing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Silvia Manconi , Michael Korsmeier , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis , Hannes Zechlin

The origin of the Isotropic Diffuse $\gamma$-Ray Background (IGRB) is one of the most intriguing mystery in astrophysics. Recently the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has measured the IGRB spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mattia Di Mauro

We present the results of the $\gamma$-ray flux distribution study on the brightest blazars which are observed by the \emph{Fermi}-LAT. We selected 50 brightest blazars based on the maximum number of detection reported in the LAT third AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Zahir Shah , N. Mankuzhiyil , A. Sinha , R. Misra , S. Sahayanathan , N. Iqbal

Blazars represent the most abundant class of high-energy extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. The subset of blazars known as BL Lac objects is on average closer to Earth and characterized by harder spectra at high energy than the whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-26 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , G. Lamanna , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico

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

One of the most prominent features of the $\gamma$-ray sky is the emission from our own Galaxy. The Galactic plane has been observed by Fermi-LAT in GeV and H.E.S.S. in TeV light. Fermi has modeled the Galactic emission as the sum of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Ellis Owen , Christoph Deil , Axel Donath , Régis Terrier

We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) low energy catalog (1FLE) of sources detected in the energy range 30 - 100 MeV. The COMPTEL telescope detected sources below 30 MeV, while catalogs released by the Fermi-LAT and EGRET…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Giacomo Principe , Dmitry Malyshev , Jean Ballet , Stefan Funk

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of blazars selected from the 5th ROMABZCAT catalog. We selected from this sample a subsample of 2435 objects having at least one counterpart in one of the three main archival X-ray…

We report on the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) measurements of the so-called "extra-galactic" diffuse gamma-ray emission (EGB). This component of the diffuse gamma-ray emission is generally considered to have an isotropic or nearly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-06 LAT collaboration

We combine adaptive template fitting and pixel count statistics in order to assess the nature of the Galactic center excess in Fermi-LAT data. We reconstruct the flux distribution of point sources well below the Fermi-LAT detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-29 Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato , Silvia Manconi
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