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The ~70 unidentified sources of the EGRET sky survey may be one of its most important legacies. The identification of these sources at other wavelengths is critical to understanding their nature. Many have flat spectra out to 10 GeV which,…

The AGILE (Advanced enerGetic Ion eLectron tElescope) project focuses on the development of a compact low-cost space-based instrument to measure the intensities of charged particles and ions in space. Using multiple layers of fast silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-07-15 F. Gautier , A. Greeley , S. G. Kanekal , T. Isidori , G. Legras , N. Minafra , A. Novikov , C. Royon , Q. Schiller

We report on observations of TeV-selected AGN made during the first 5.5 months of observations with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi). In total, 96 AGN were selected for study, each being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 S. J. Fegan , D. Sanchez , Fermi LAT Collaboration , : , A. A. Abdo

The Milagro telescope monitors the northern sky for 100 GeV - 100 TeV transient emission through continuous very high energy wide-field observations. The large effective area and low energy threshold of Milagro allow it to detect very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Miguel F. Morales

Milagro is a gamma-ray observatory employing a water Cherenkov detector to observe extensive air showers produced by high-energy particles impacting in the Earth's atmosphere. We discuss the first detection of TeV gamma-rays from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson

Recent observations with atmospheric Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S. and MAGIC have revealed a large number of new sources of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-rays from 100 GeV - 100 TeV, mostly concentrated along the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Funk , O. Reimer , D. F. Torres , J. A. Hinton

We will review the crucial AGILE gamma-ray SNR observations focusing on the evidence of hadronic cosmic-ray acceleration that has been obtained so far. We discuss data on SNR IC443, W28 and W44. We show that in all cases a consistent model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Andrea Giuliani , Martina Cardillo , Marco Tavani

We present a comprehensive search for non-thermal high-energy $\gamma$-ray emission from the nearby merging galaxy cluster Abell~119 ($z=0.044$) using archival observations spanning over seven decades in photon energy. Our analysis combines…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

The ARGO-YBJ detector is an extensive air shower array that has been used to monitor the northern $\gamma$-ray sky at energies above 0.3 TeV from 2007 November to 2013 January. In this paper, we present the results of a sky survey in the…

Very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), giant molecular clouds, gamma-ray binaries, the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

The quasar-type blazar 3C 454.3 underwent a phase of high activity in summer and autumn 2007, which was intensively monitored in the radio-to-optical bands by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT). The gamma-ray satellite AGILE detected…

The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Denys Malyshev , Lars Mohrmann

We observed the first known very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emitting unidentified source, TeV J2032+4130, for 94 hours with the MAGIC telescope. The source was detected with a significance of 5.6 sigma. The flux, position, and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 J. Albert

The Geminga gamma ray source was first detected by the SAS-2 gamma-ray satellite observatory and the COS-B x-ray satellite observatory, and has been identified as a radio-quiet pulsar associated with a 300,000 year old supernova remnant.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Gary Finnegan

We report the AGILE observations of GRB 220101A, which took place at the beginning of 1st January 2022 and was recognized as one of the most energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) ever detected since their discovery. The AGILE satellite acquired…

This White Paper explores advances in the study of Active Galaxies which will be enabled by new observing capabilities at MeV energies (hard X-rays to gamma-rays; 0.1-1000 MeV), with a focus on multi-wavelength synergies. This spectral…

The recent completion and operation of the High Energy Stereoscopic System, an array of ground based imaging Cherenkov telescopes, has provided a survey with unprecedented sensitivity of the inner part of the Galaxy and revealed a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pietro Ubertini

SuperAGILE is the X-ray stage of the AGILE gamma-ray mission. It is devoted to monitor X-ray (10-40 keV) sources with a sensitivity better than 10 mCrabs in 50 ks and to detect X-ray transients in a field of view of 1.8 sr, well matched to…

Several binary systems, composed of a star and a compact object, have been detected in the GeV-TeV range. Several systems have been observed but only a handful of sources have shown emission at those energies. Here, we present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. López-Oramas , O. Blanch Bigas , J. Cortina , D. Hadasch , A. Herrero , B. Marcote , P. Munar-Adrover , J. Moldón , J. M. Paredes , I. Ribas , M. Ribó , D. Torres , R. Zanin
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