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The TANAMI (Tracking AGN with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry) and associated programs provide comprehensive radio monitoring of extragalactic gamma-ray sources south of declination -30 degrees. Joint quasi-simultaneous observations…

In an attempt to constrain and understand the emission mechanism of gamma rays, we perform a cross-correlation analysis of 15 blazars using light curves in millimetre, optical and gamma rays. We use discrete correlation function and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , M. Tornikoski , K. Nilsson , E. Lindfors , M. Baloković , A. Lähteenmäki , R. Reinthal , L. Takalo

Gamma-ray observations give us a direct view into the most extreme environments of the universe. They help us to study astronomical particle accelerators as supernovae remnants, pulsars, active galaxies or gamma-ray bursts and help us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-18 Rolf Buehler

Variable $\gamma$-ray flares upto minute timescales reflect extreme particle acceleration sites. However, for high-redshift blazars, the detection of such rapid variations remains limited by current telescope sensitivities. Gravitationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Sushmita Agarwal , Amit Shukla , Pranjali Sharma

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

The radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed as part of the VLBA Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS). This large, flux-limited sample of active…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , R. Romani , S. E. Healey , J. F. Helmboldt , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , J. Richards , G. Cotter

The Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has produced the largest database of all-sky observations in gamma rays with its continuous data with high time and energy resolutions. These data contain a wealth…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-19 Yuki Kaneko , Ozge Keskin , Can Gungor , Ersin Gogus , Mete Uzuner , Aslihan M. Unsal

The gamma-ray emission of blazar jets shows a pronounced variability and this feature provides limits to the size and to the speed of the emitting region. We study the gamma-ray variability of bright blazars using data from the first 18…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Sbarrato , L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio

We considered the fourth catalog of gamma-ray point sources produced by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and selected only jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) or sources with no specific classification, but with a low-frequency…

Detailed simulations of the gamma-ray sky played an important role before the launch of Fermi. Pre-launch simulation campaigns aided the development of new analysis tools and the assessment of the expected Fermi-LAT science performance.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Razzano

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…

The enigma of cosmic ray origin and propagation stands as a key question in particle astrophysics. The precise spatial and spectral measurements of diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission provide new avenues for unraveling this mystery. Based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-01 Qi-Ling Chen , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo , Ming-Ming Kang , Chao-Wen Yang

We present an analysis of the gamma-ray data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the direction of SNR W49B (G43.3-0.2). A bright unresolved gamma-ray source detected at a significance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 LAT Collaboration

We present the third Fermi Large Area Telescope source catalog (3FGL) of sources in the 100 MeV-300 GeV range. Based on the first four years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission, it is the deepest yet in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 LAT Collaboration

Recent detection of suborbital gamma-ray variability of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is in severe conflict with established models of blazar emission. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Krzysztof Nalewajko

We observed with the NuSTAR satellite 3 blazars at z>2, detected in gamma-rays by Fermi/LAT and in the soft X-rays, but not yet observed above 10 keV. The flux and slope of their X-ray continuum, together with Fermi/LAT data allows us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 G. Ghisellini , M. L. Perri , G. Costamante , G. Tagliaferri , T. Sbarrato , S. Campitiello , G. Madejski , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghirlanda

Non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky and started to deepen our understanding of the physical processes and the nature of AGN in general. The detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Frank M. Rieger

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 Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy \gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 20…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 LAT Collaboration

In its first three months of operations, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Observatory has detected approximately one quarter of the radio-flux-limited MOJAVE sample of bright flat-spectrum active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at energies above 100 MeV. We have…

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