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Many star-forming galaxies and those hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) show evidence of massive outflows of material in a variety of phases including ionized, neutral atomic, and molecular. Molecular outflows in particular have been the…

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Cosmic rays of energies up to a few PeV are believed to be of galactic origin, yet individual sources have still not been firmly identified. Due to inelastic collisions with the interstellar gas, cosmic-ray nuclei produce a diffuse flux of…

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BL Lac objects are an extreme type of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that belong to the largest population of $\gamma$-ray sources: blazars. This class of AGNs shows a double-bumped spectral energy distribution that is commonly described in…

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Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \textit{Fermi} mission of diffuse $\gamma$-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude $l$ from $200\arcdeg$ to $260\arcdeg$ and latitude $| b |$ from…

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We present a detailed statistical analysis of the correlation between radio and gamma-ray emission of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) detected by Fermi during its first year of operation, with the largest datasets ever used for this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Allafort , E. Angelakis , M. Axelsson , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , A. Bouvier , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , A. Cannon , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , L. Escande , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , L. Fuhrmann , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , P. Grandi , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , S. E. Healey , G. J , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Kn , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. -H. Lee , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , A. Makeev , W. Max-Moerbeck , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , S. Nishino , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , V. Pavlidou , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , S. Rain , M. Razzano , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. L. Richards , R. W. Romani , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgr , E. J. Siskind , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , G. B. Taylor , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , A. Tramacere , E. Troja , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , M. Ziegler

A majority of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe are classified as low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN), having bolometric luminosities $\lesssim 10^{42} \ \mathrm{erg \ s^{-1}}$. Although high-energy gamma-ray emission is…

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The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA) provides a photometric alternative for identifying week-long gamma-ray flares across the entire sky while being independent of any diffuse Galactic or isotropic emission model. We reviewed 779…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Scott D. Joffre , Núria Torres-Albà , Marco Ajello , Daniel Kocevski , Rolf Buehler

The excess of continuum gamma-ray emission from the Galaxy above 1 GeV is an unsolved puzzle. It may indicate that the interstellar nucleon or electron spectra are harder than local direct measurements, as could be the case if a local…

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Recent radio surveys have discovered a large number of low luminosity core dominated radio galaxies that are much more abundant than those at higher luminosities. These objects will be too faint in gamma-rays to be detected individually by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Floyd W. Stecker , Chris R. Shrader , Matthew. A. Malkan

The Galactic gamma-ray diffuse emission is currently observed in the GeV-TeV energy range with unprecedented accuracy by the Fermi satellite. Understanding this component is crucial as it provides a background to many different signals such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Timur Delahaye , Armand Fiasson , Martin Pohl , Pierre Salati

Recently, a spatially extended excess of gamma rays collected by the Fermi-LAT from the inner region of the Milky Way has been detected by different groups and with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Yet, any final conclusion about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

The HEGRA-IACT-system with a FoV of ~1.5 deg radius has been used for surveying one quater of the Galactic disc in respect to point sources, moderately extended sources and for diffuse emission in the energy range above 1 TeV. In total 140…

We find that X-ray sources in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South are strongly spatially correlated with LABOCA 870 micron sources. We investigate the dependence of this correlation on X-ray flux, hardness ratio and column density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael D. Hill , Tom Shanks

Mismodeling the uncertain, diffuse emission of Galactic origin can seriously bias the characterization of astrophysical gamma-ray data, particularly in the region of the Inner Milky Way where such emission can make up over 80% of the photon…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Kyle Cranmer

The detection by the HESS atmospheric Cherenkov telescope of fifteen new sources from the Galactic plane makes it possible to estimate the contribution of unresolved point sources like those detected by HESS to the diffuse Galactic emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabrina Casanova , Brenda L. Dingus

The Galactic diffuse soft gamma-ray (30-800 keV) emission has been measured from the Galactic Center by the HIREGS balloon-borne germanium spectrometer to determine the spectral characteristics and origin of the emission. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Boggs , R. P. Lin , S. Slassi-Sennou , W. Coburn , R. M. Pelling