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The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has discovered many gamma-ray pulsars, both as radio-loud objects and radio-quiet or radio-weak pulsars that have been identified through blind period searches. The latter presumably have gamma-ray beams…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-02 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter Gonthier

According to the second Fermi LAT Catalog (2FGL), about one third of the gamma-ray sources listed have no assigned counterparts at lower energies. Many statistical methods have been developed to find proper counterparts for these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-12 M. Nori , M. Giroletti , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , S. Funk

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

An analytic relation between the statistics of photons in pixels and the number counts of multi-photon point sources is used to constrain the distribution of gamma-ray point sources below the Fermi detection limit at energies above 1 GeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-06 Dmitry Malyshev , David W. Hogg

Blazars are a small fraction of all extragalactic sources but, unlike other objects, they are strong emitters across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Recent data in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum have become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 D. Gasparrini , E. Cavazzuti , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , S. Colafrancesco , Fermi-LAT collaboration

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

Several classes of astrophysical sources contribute to the approximately isotropic gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper, we use Fermi's catalog of gamma-ray sources (along with corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Radio-loud sources with blazar-like properties, but having a jet that does not directly point in the direction of the observer are among the most interesting classes of gamma-ray emitters. These sources are known as Misaligned Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-30 G. Chiaro , G. La Mura , A. Dominguez , S. Bisogni

Very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as SNRs, pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, AGN, gamma-ray binaries, molecular clouds, and possibly star-forming regions as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-19 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

We are starting a project to find $\gamma$-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) among the unidentified sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, by radio observations. The selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

Identifying as many gamma-ray pulsars as possible in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data helps test pulsar emission models by comparing predicted and observed properties for a large, varied sample with as little selection bias as…

According to radiative models, radio galaxies are predicted to produce gamma-rays from the earliest stages of their evolution onwards. The study of the high-energy emission from young radio sources is crucial for providing information on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Giacomo Principe , Leonardo Di Venere , Giulia Migliori , Monica Orienti , Filippo D'Ammando

Nearly one-third of the gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi are still unidentified, despite significant recent progress in this effort. On the other hand, all the gamma-ray extragalactic sources associated in the second Fermi-LAT catalog…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , N. Masetti , M. Giroletti , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith , S. Funk

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite is the first gamma-ray instrument to discover pulsars directly via their gamma-ray emission. Roughly one third of the 117 gamma-ray pulsars detected by the LAT in its first three years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

The Fermi-LAT collaboration has recently released a new point source catalog, referred to as 4FGL. For the first time, we perform a template fit using information from this new catalog and find that the Galactic center excess is still…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Yi-Ming Zhong , Samuel D. McDermott , Ilias Cholis , Patrick J. Fox

There are a total of 1451 gamma-ray emitting objects in the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalogue. The point source location accuracy of typically a few arcminutes has allowed the counterparts for many of these sources to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 J. B. Stephen , L. Bassani , R. Landi , A. Malizia , V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , N. Masetti

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seems to link them to Soft Gamma Repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Giacomo Principe , Nicola Omodei , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Francesco Longo

The Fermi bubbles are one of the most remarkable features in the gamma-ray sky revealed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The nature of the gamma-ray emission and the origin of the bubbles are still open questions. In this note, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-11 Dmitry Malyshev

About a third of the $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) remain unidentified, and some of these could be exotic objects such as dark matter subhalos. We present a search for these sources using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Anja Butter , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

Over the past 16 years, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has significantly advanced our view of the GeV gamma-ray sky, yet several key questions remain - such as the composition of the isotropic gamma-ray background, the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher Eckner , Noemi Anau Montel , Florian List , Francesca Calore , Christoph Weniger
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