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With a decade of gamma-ray data from the Fermi-LAT telescope, we can now hope to answer how well we know the local Universe at gamma-ray frequencies. On the other hand, with gamma-ray data alone it is not possible to directly access the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-27 Simone Ammazzalorso , Nicolao Fornengo , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Marco Regis

We analyzed deep Chandra observations of the Galactic plane region centered at l=28.55, b=-0.03 with the aim to obtain the best possible constraints on the contribution of weak point sources to the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov

Revealing the nature of unassociated high-energy (> 100 MeV) gamma-ray sources remains a challenge 35 years after their discovery. Of the 934 gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitude (|b| > 15 degrees) in the First Fermi-LAT catalogue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-25 N. Mirabal , D. Nieto , S. Pardo

After almost 4 years of operation, the two instruments onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have shown that the number of gamma-ray bursts with high energy photon emission above 100 MeV cannot exceed roughly 9% of the total number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Carl W. Akerlof , WeiKang Zheng

Galaxy clusters are predicted to produce gamma-rays through cosmic ray interactions and/or dark matter annihilation, potentially detectable by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). We present a new, independent stacking analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Rhiannon D. Griffin , Xinyu Dai , Christopher S. Kochanek

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrinsic spectral and flux properties of the source sample. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 LAT Collaboration

The high-frequency radio sky, like the gamma-ray sky surveyed by the Fermi satellite, is dominated by flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects at bright flux levels. To investigate the relationship between radio and gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Elizabeth K. Mahony , Elaine M. Sadler , Tara Murphy , Ronald D. Ekers , Philip G. Edwards , Marcella Massardi

The nature of the soft gamma-ray (20-200 keV) Galactic emission has been a matter of debate for a long time. Previous experiments have tried to separate the point source contribution from the real interstellar emission, but with a rather…

The inner region of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting and complex regions of the gamma-ray sky. The intense interstellar emission and resolved point sources, as well as potential contributions by other sources such as unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Troy A. Porter , Simona Murgia

The Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL) provided spatial, spectral, and temporal properties for a large number of gamma-ray sources using a uniform analysis method. After correlating with the most-complete catalogs of…

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

The X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of galaxies is dominated by AGN (classified by their optical spectra) above Lx=10**42 erg/s, below this value by normal galaxies. The X-ray flux of AGN at low X-ray luminosity therefore contains…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Lehmann , G. Hasinger , A. D. Schwope , Th. Boller

Emission of AGNs and neutral pion decay - are the two most natural mechanisms, that could make a galaxy cluster be a source of gamma-rays in the GeV regime. We revisited this problem by using 52.5-month FERMI-LAT data above 10 GeV and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 D. A. Prokhorov , E. M. Churazov

We reconstruct the extra-galactic gamma-ray source-count distribution, or $dN/dS$, of resolved and unresolved sources by adopting machine learning techniques. Specifically, we train a convolutional neural network on synthetic 2-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-16 Aurelio Amerio , Alessandro Cuoco , Nicolao Fornengo

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 new theoretical calculation of the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation (EGRB) from star-forming galaxies, based on a state-of-the-art model of hierarchical galaxy formation that is in quantitative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-08 Ryu Makiya , Tomonori Totani , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi

Gamma ray observations have found evidence of an extremely energetic outflow emanating from the Galactic Centre, and an `excess' of emission at GeV energies towards the Galactic Centre over that expected from current models. Determining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-17 Steven N. Longmore , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

Astrophysical sources outside the Milky Way, such as active galactic nuclei and star-forming galaxies, leave their imprint on the gamma-ray sky as nearly isotropic emission referred to as the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background (EGB). While…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-12 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Lina Necib , Benjamin R. Safdi

We estimate the galaxy density along lines of sight to hard extragalactic gamma-ray sources by correlating source positions on the sky with a void catalog based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Extragalactic gamma-ray sources that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Furniss , P. M. Sutter , J. R. Primack , A. Dominguez

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

During its first four years of scientific observations, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray sources above a 4$\sigma$ significance level. Although most of the extra-Galactic sources are active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. La Mura , G. Chiaro , S. Ciroi , P. Rafanelli , D. Salvetti , M. Berton , V. Cracco