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Here we report the results of searching millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidates from the Fermi LAT second source catalog (2FGL). Seven unassociated $\gamma-$ray sources in this catalog are identified as promising MSP candidates based on their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 C. Y. Hui , S. M. Park , C. P. Hu , L. C. C. Lin , K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , Ruolan Jin , T. -C. Yen , Chunglee Kim

AIMS. We are studying an unbiased sample of 42 nearby (z < 0.2) BL Lacertae objects with a multi-wavelength approach. The results of VLBI observations were presented in the first paper of this series. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , S. Rainò

The launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has heralded a new era in the study of gamma-ray pulsars. The population of confirmed gamma-ray pulsars has gone from 6-7 to more than 60, and the superb sensitivity of the Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Paul S. Ray , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

We search for the presence of double gamma-ray line from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources including detailed Monte Carlo simulations to study its global statistical significance. Applying the Su & Finkbeiner selection criteria for high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-10 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

The gamma-ray sky has been observed with unprecedented accuracy in the last decade by the Fermi large area telescope (LAT), allowing us to resolve and understand the high-energy Universe. The nature of the remaining unresolved emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-06 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , E. Burns , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , S. Chen , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , D. Costantin , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , A. Desai , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , F. Fana Dirirsa , C. Favuzzi , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , D. Horan , G. Johannesson , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , M. Palatiello , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , D. Serini , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , M. Takahashi , J. B. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , T. M. Venters , G. Vianello , K. Wood , M. Yassine , G. Zaharijas , S. Ammazzalorso , N. Fornengo , M. Regis

The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

We present the results of our follow-up observation program of gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. 26 blazars and 39 sources unidentified at other wavelengths were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mai Fujiwara , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Nobuyuki Ienaka

We search for gamma-ray emission from 114 Galactic high mass X-ray binaries, including 4 well studied catalogued sources, in 12.5 years of Fermi-LAT data in conjunction with the 10-year point source catalogue. Where a gamma-ray excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Max Harvey , Cameron B. Rulten , Paula M. Chadwick

About one third of the 3033 $\gamma$-ray sources in the Third Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Source Catalogue (3FGL) are unidentified and do not have even a tentative association with a known object, hence they are defined as unassociated. Among…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 D. Salvetti , R. P. Mignani , A. De Luca , M. Marelli , C. Pallanca , A. A. Breeveld , P. Husemann , A. Belfiore , W. Becker , J. Greiner

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi has detected ~150 gamma-ray pulsars, about a third of which were discovered in blind searches of the $\gamma$-ray data. Because the angular resolution of the LAT is relatively poor and blind searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Belfiore , P. Caraveo , A. De Luca , M. Marelli

We report our detailed data analysis for 39 $\gamma$-ray sources selected from the 992 unassociated sources in the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) third source catalog. The selection criteria, which were set for finding candidate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-03 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , V. Jithesh , Yi Xing

Gamma rays from young pulsars and milli-second pulsars are expected to contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray emission measured by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) at high latitudes. We derive the contribution of the pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-17 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

We present a stacking method that makes use of co-added maps of gamma-ray counts produced from data taken with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Sources with low integrated gamma-ray fluxes that are not detected individually may become…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Huber , C. Farnier , A. Manalaysay , U. Straumann , R. Walter

During a search for gamma-ray emission from NGC 3628 (Arp 317), two new unidentified gamma-ray sources, Fermi J1049.7+0435 and J1103.2+1145 have been discovered \cite{ATel}. The detections are made in data from the Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 Masaki Nishimichi , Takeshi Okuda , Masaki Mori , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens

Star formation in galaxies is observed to be associated with gamma-ray emission. The detection of gamma rays from star-forming galaxies by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has allowed the determination of a functional relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-07 Emma Storm , Tesla E. Jeltema , Stefano Profumo

The inner region of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting and complex regions of the gamma-ray sky. The intense interstellar emission and resolved point sources, as well as potential contributions by other sources such as unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Troy A. Porter , Simona Murgia

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Giacomo Principe , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Michela Negro , Francesco Longo

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Sylvain Chaty

A large fraction of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources in the fourth Fermi-LAT 14 yr catalog (4FGL) still remain unidentified (unIDed). We continued to improve our machine-learning pipeline and used it to classify 1206 X-ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz