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The Galactic gamma-ray flux can be described as the sum of two components: the first is due to the emission from an ensemble of discrete sources, and the second is formed by the photons produced by cosmic rays propagating in interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Paolo Lipari , Silvia Vernetto

Spectral energy distribution and its variability are basic tools for understanding the physical processes operating in active galactic nuclei (AGN). In this paper we report the results of a one-year near infra red (NIR) and optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Nesci , G. Tosti , T. Pursimo , R. Ojha , M. Kadler

We separate the extragalactic radio source population above ~50 uJy into active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star-forming sources. The primary method of our approach is to fit the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs), constructed…

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

The Fermi-LAT telescope has measured the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) generated by the ensemble of all extragalactic sources. The energy distribution of the EGB is well described as a power-law with a spectral index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Paolo Lipari

Excess of gamma rays with a spherical morphology around the Galactic center (GC) observed in the Fermi large area telescope (LAT) data is one of the most intriguing features in the gamma-ray sky. The excess has been interpreted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Dmitry V. Malyshev

We report our identification of three gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray sources, 4FGL J0502.6+0036, 4FGL J1055.9+6507, and 4FGL J1708.2+5519, as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). They are listed in the latest Fermi-LAT source catalog as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Qiangmeng Huang , Ruoheng Yang

Diffuse emission in gamma-rays and neutrinos are produced by the interaction of cosmic rays with the interstellar medium. Below some hundreds of TeV, the sources of these cosmic rays are most likely Galactic. Hence, observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-25 Anton Stall , Philipp Mertsch

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

The gamma-ray sky >100 MeV is dominated by the diffuse emissions from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields of the Milky Way. Observations of these diffuse emissions provide a tool to study cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is producing the most detailed inventory of the gamma-ray sky to date. Despite tremendous achievements approximately 25% of all Fermi extragalactic sources in the Second Fermi LAT Catalogue (2FGL) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 T. Hassan , N. Mirabal , J. L. Contreras , I. Oya

There is active interest in the extent to which unresolved gamma-ray pulsars contribute to the galactic diffuse emission, and whether unresolved gamma-ray pulsars could be responsible for the excess of diffuse galactic emission above 1 GeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl , Gottfried Kanbach , Stan D. Hunter , Brian B. Jones

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest survey of the gamma-ray sky ever compiled, containing 1873 sources that constitute a very complete sample down to an energy flux of about 10^(-11) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1). While…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 M. Doert , M. Errando

As an evolutionary phase of galaxies, active galactic nuclei (AGN) over a large range of redshift have been utilized for understanding cosmic evolution. In particular, the population and evolution of AGNs have been investigated through the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-02 Jaejin Shin , Richard. M. Plotkin , Jong-Hak Woo , Elena Gallo , John S. Mulchaey

The Universe is largely transparent to $\gamma$ rays in the GeV energy range, making these high-energy photons valuable for exploring energetic processes in the cosmos. After seven years of operation, the Fermi {\it Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 F. Massaro , D. J. Thompson , E. C. Ferrara

We present an analysis of the X-ray point source populations in 182 Chandra images of galaxy clusters at z>0.1 with exposure time >10 ksec, as well as 44 non-cluster fields. Analysis of the number and flux of these sources, using a detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-04-29 R. Gilmour , P. Best , O. Almaini

(abridged) We present a catalog of 2357 point sources detected during 590 ks of Chandra observations of the 17-by-17 arcminute field around Sgr A*. This field encompasses a physical area of 40 by 40 pc at a distance of 8 kpc. The…

Models for the diffuse Galactic continuum emission and synchrotron radiation show that it is difficult to reproduce observations of both of these from the same population of cosmic-ray electrons. This indicates that an important contributor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

We have constrained the extragalactic source count distributions over a broad range of X-ray fluxes and in various energy bands to test whether the predictions from X-ray background synthesis models agree with the observational constraints…

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