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The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been continuously providing good quality survey data of the entire sky in the high energy range from 30 MeV to 500 GeV and above since August 2008. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 A. Pathania , K. K. Singh , S. K. Singh , A. Tolamatti , B. B. Singh , K. K. Yadav

The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) First Source Catalog (1FGL) was released in February 2010 and the Fermi-LAT 2-Year Source Catalog (2FGL) appeared in April 2012, based on data from 24 months of operation. Since their releases, many…

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti

We present a catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary science instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), during the first 11 months of the science phase of the mission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT Collaboration

Classification of sources is one of the most important tasks in astronomy. Sources detected in one wavelength band, for example using gamma rays, may have several possible associations in other wavebands, or there may be no plausible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-19 Aakash Bhat , Dmitry Malyshev

The Fermi-LAT unassociated sources represent some of the most enigmatic gamma-ray sources in the sky. Observations with the Swift-XRT and -UVOT telescopes have identified hundreds of likely X-ray and UV/optical counterparts in the…

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first three years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 LAT Collaboration

Unassociated Fermi-LAT sources provide a population with discovery potential. We discuss efforts to find new source associations for this population, and summarize the successes to date. We discuss how the measured gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Roopesh Ojha , Maria Elena Monzani , Nicola Omodei

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

We apply a number of statistical and machine learning techniques to classify and rank gamma-ray sources from the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Source Catalog (3FGL), according to their likelihood of falling into the two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson , H. Xu , P. L. H. Yu , D. Salvetti , M. Marelli , A. D. Falcone

Approximately one-third of existing $\gamma$-ray sources identified by the $\textit{Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope}$ are considered to be unassociated, with no known counterpart at other frequencies/wavelengths. These sources have been the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 S. Bruzewski , F. K. Schinzel , G. B. Taylor

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 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

In the fourth \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL), 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources are reported, including 3207 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 239 pulsars, 1336 unassociated sources, 92 sources with weak association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Kerui Zhu , Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng

With assistance of the identified/associated sources in the second Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog, we analyze and resolve the spatial distribution and the distributions of the gamma-ray spectral and variability indices of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhu Mao , Yun-Wei Yu

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been detecting a wealth of sources where the multi-wavelength counterpart is either inconclusive or missing altogether. We present a combination of factors that can be used to identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Acero , D. Donato , R. Ojha , J. Stevens , P. G. Edwards , E. Ferrara , J. Blanchard , J. E. J. Lovell , D. J. Thompson

The classifications of Fermi-LAT unassociated sources are studied using multiple machine learning (ML) methods. The update data from 4FGL-DR3 are divided into high Galactic latitude (HGL, Galactic latitude $|b|>10^\circ$) and low Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 K. R. Zhu , J. M. Chen , Y. G. Zheng , L. Zhang

The third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the $\gamma$-ray emission of those objects is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 F. K. Schinzel , L. Petrov , G. B. Taylor , P. G. Edwards

Despite the growing number of gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi-LAT, about one third of the sources in each survey remains of uncertain type. We present a new deep neural network approach for the classification of unidentified or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first 3 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. This catalog complements the Second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 David Paneque , Jean Ballet , Toby Burnett , Seth Digel , Pascal Fortin , Juergen Knoedlseder
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