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The Crab pulsar and its nebula are very luminous and variable. Since 1982, random fluctuations of the dispersion measure (DM) have been recorded. Also in 2011, Fermi-LAT telescope detected $\gamma$-ray flux variation of the Crab nebula. No…

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Multiwavelength observations of the blazar BL Lacertae: a new fast TeV gamma-ray flare

Combined with very-long-baseline interferometry measurements, the observations of fast TeV gamma-ray flares probe the structure and emission mechanism of blazar jets. However, only a handful of such flares have been detected to date, and…

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Gamma-Ray Burst observations with Fermi

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The Crab Pulsar is a relatively young neutron star. The pulsar is the central star in the Crab Nebula, a remnant of the supernova SN 1054, which was observed on Earth in the year 1054. The Crab Pulsar has been extensively observed in the…

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Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Gamma-ray Outburst from 3C 454.3 in November 2010

The flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3 underwent an extraordinary 5-day gamma-ray outburst in November 2010 where the daily flux measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) at photon energies E>100 MeV reached (66+/-2) x 10^-6 ph…

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Search for point sources of gamma radiation above 15 TeV with the HEGRA - AIROBICC array

A search for potential point sources of very high energy gamma rays has been carried out on the data taken simultaneously by the HEGRA AIROBICC and Scintillator arrays from August 1994 to March 2000. The list of sought sources includes…

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Gamma-ray bursts and their relation to astroparticle physics and cosmology

This article gives an overview of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their relation to astroparticle physics and cosmology. GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe that occur roughly once per day and are characterized by flashes of…

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Constraining the location of rapid gamma-ray flares in the FSRQ 3C 273

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Observation of the Crab Nebula Gamma-Ray Emission Above 220 Gev by the Cat Cherenkov Imaging Telescope

The CAT imaging telescope, recently built on the site of the former solar plant Themis (French Pyrenees), observed gamma-rays from the Crab nebula from October 1996 to March 1997. This steady source, often considered as the standard candle…

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Search for variable gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane in the Fermi data

High-energy gamma-ray emission from the Galactic plane above ~100 MeV is composed of three main contributions: diffuse emission from cosmic ray interactions in the interstellar medium, emission from extended sources, such as supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Neronov , D. Malyshev , M. Chernyakova , A. Lutovinov

Very High Energy Gamma Ray Emission from Crab Nebula with the PACT Array

The Crab nebula has proved to be the nearest to a standard candle in VHE $\gamma-$ ray astronomy. Results on the gamma ray emission from the nebula at various energies have come in the last decade mostly from imaging telescopes. The aim of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. R. Vishwanath , B. S. Acharya , P. N. Bhat , V. R. Chitnis , P. Majumdar , M. A. Rahman , B. B. Singh

VLBI imaging of a flare in the Crab Nebula: More than just a spot

We report on very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the radio emission from the inner region of the Crab Nebula, made at 1.6 GHz and 5 GHz after a recent high-energy flare in this object. The 5 GHz data have provided only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 A. P. Lobanov , D. Horns , T. W. B. Muxlow

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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-10 Beka Tevdorashvili

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The $\gamma$-ray flares from the Crab nebula observed by {\it AGILE} and {\it Fermi}-LAT between 2007-2013 reached GeV photon energies and lasted several days. The strongest emission, observed during the 2011 April "super-flare," exceeded…

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The observation of the Crab Nebula with LHAASO-KM2A for the performance study

As a sub-array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), KM2A is mainly designed to cover a large fraction of the northern sky to hunt for gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 TeV. Even though the detector construction…

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The Crab Nebula was discovered as the first very-high-energy gamma-ray source by the Whipple Observatory in 1989. Thirty years after its discovery it is still the reference source and the standard candle for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov…

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Gamma-Ray Spectra & Variability of the Crab Nebula Emission Observed by BATSE

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