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Fermi-LAT observations provide continuous and regularly-sampled measurements of gamma-ray photon flux for hundreds of blazars. Many of these light curves, spanning almost 15 years, have been thoroughly examined for periodicity in multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Polina Novikova , Ekaterina Shishkina , Dmitry Blinov

Pulsars are rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron stars emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although there are more than 1800 known radio pulsars, until recently, only seven were observed to pulse in gamma rays and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-07 LAT Collaboration

Before the launch of the Fermi satellite only two classes of AGN were known to generate relativistic jets and thus emit up to the gamma-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies, both hosted in giant elliptical galaxies. The first two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. D'Ammando , G. Tosti , M. Orienti , J. Finke

The launch of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the imaging air Cerenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS have substantially transformed our knowledge of gamma-ray sources in the last decade. The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-02 C. Pfrommer

The Fermi observatory was launched on June 11, 2008. It hosts the \emph{Large Area Telescope} (LAT), sensitive to $\gamma$-ray photons from 20 MeV to over 300 GeV. When the LAT began its activity, nine young and energetic pulsars were known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-27 Lucas Guillemot

The launching mechanism of the jets of active galactic nuclei is observationally poorly constrained, due to the large distances to these objects and the very small scales (sub-parsec) involved. In order to better constrain theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Marti-Vidal , S. Muller , F. Combes , S. Aalto , A. Beelen , J. Darling , M. Guelin , C. Henkel , C. Horellou , J. M. Marcaide , S. Martin , K. M. Menten , Dinh-V-Trung , M. Zwaan

Almost 10 yr of $\gamma$-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have revealed extreme $\gamma$-ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making these objects the brightest $\gamma$-ray emitters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Manuel Meyer , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Roger D. Blandford

The Fermi observatory, with its Gamma-Ray Bursts monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT), is observing Gamma-ray Bursts with unprecedented spectral coverage and sensitivity, from ~10 keV to > 300 GeV. In the first 3 years of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-27 Giacomo Vianello

During a search for gamma-ray emission from NGC 3628 (Arp 317), two new unidentified gamma-ray sources, Fermi J1049.7+0435 and J1103.2+1145 have been discovered \cite{ATel}. The detections are made in data from the Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 Masaki Nishimichi , Takeshi Okuda , Masaki Mori , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens

We present a catalog of sources of very high energy (E>100 GeV) gamma-rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope at Galactic latitudes |b|>=10 degrees. We cross-correlate the directions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk

The LAT instrument on the Fermi mission will reveal the rich spectral and temporal gamma-ray burst phenomena in the > 100 MeV band. The synergy with Fermi's GBM detectors will link these observations to those in the well explored 10-1000…

We report the detection of a transient $\gamma$-ray source in the direction of B3 1428+422 ($z=4.72$) by analyzing the 110-month {\it Fermi}-LAT Pass 8 data. The new transient $\gamma-$ray source is far away from the Galactic plane and has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Neng-Hui Liao , Shang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

This paper presents the gamma-ray spectral and timing results from the long-term regular observations of Mrk 421 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi during 2008 August - 2023 August. We discerned six periods the relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 B. Kapanadze , A. Gurchumelia , M. Aller

The second catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in two years of scientific operation is presented. The Second LAT AGN Catalog (2LAC) includes 1017 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

We report the detection of two new gamma-ray sources in the Fermi-LAT sky (Pass 8) at energies higher than 20 GeV, and confirmed at lower energies, using a source detection tool based on the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm. One of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 R. Campana , A. Maselli , E. Bernieri , E. Massaro

Using high-resolution radio imaging with VLBI techniques, the TANAMI program has been observing the parsec-scale radio jets of southern (declination south of -30{\deg}) gamma-ray bright AGN simultaneously with Fermi/LAT monitoring of their…

We present a multi-wavelength study of the FSRQ CTA 102 using Fermi-LAT and simultaneous Swift-XRT/UVOT observations. The Fermi-LAT telescope detected one of the brightest flares from this object during Sep, 2016 to Mar, 2017. In the 190…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Raj Prince , Gayathri Raman , Joachim Hahn , Nayantara Gupta , Pratik Majumdar

We search through $\gamma$-ray data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and find 24 blazars (or candidates) that have a single clear flare event in their 9.5 year long-term light curves.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Gege Wang , Zhongxiang Wang , Liang Chen , Jianeng Zhou , Yi Xing

We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray (GeV) emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1454-354 (z=1.424). On 4 September 2008 the source rose to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , P. G. Edwards , M. M. Chester , D. N. Burrows , M. Hauser , S. Wagner

The past decade has presented a revolution in the field of observational high energy gamma-ray astrophysics with the advent of a new generation in ground-based TeV telescopes and subsequent GeV space telescopes. The Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Adam B. Hill , Richard Dubois , Diego F. Torres