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The distribution on the sky of unidentified sources at the highest energies where such a population is evident is investigated. For this purpose, sources without identification in the first Fermi-LAT catalog >10 GeV (1FHL) that are good…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-08 Wilfried F. Domainko

Aims. We aim here to contribute to the identification of unassociated bright sources of gamma-rays in the recently released catalogue obtained by the Fermi collaboration. Methods. Our work is based on a extensive cross-identification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 P. L. Luque-Escamilla , J. Marti , A. J. Munoz-Arjonilla J. R. Sanchez-Sutil , J. A. Combi , E. Sanchez-Ayaso

Around one third of the point-like sources in the Fermi-LAT catalogs remain as unidentified sources (unIDs) today. Indeed, these unIDs lack a clear, univocal association with a known astrophysical source. If dark matter (DM) is composed of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-21 V. Gammaldi , B. Zaldívar , M. A. Sánchez-Conde , J. Coronado-Blázquez

Our survey of the fourth $\mathit{Fermi}$ Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) unassociated gamma-ray source regions using the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) aboard the Neil Gehrels $\mathit{Swift}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-17 Kyle D. Neumann , Abraham D. Falcone , Stephen DiKerby , Sierra Deppe , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Jamie A. Kennea , Brad Cenko , Eric Grove

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) 3FHL catalog is the latest catalog of >10 GeV sources and will remain an important resource for the high-energy community for the foreseeable future. Therefore, it is crucial that this catalog is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Ross Silver , Stefano Marchesi , Lea Marcotulli , Aman Kaur , Meenakshi Rajagopal , Marco Ajello

A list of 205 gamma-ray strong objects was reported recently as a result of a 3-month integration with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. We attempted identification of these objects, cross-correlating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. Y. Kovalev

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR3, for Data Release 3) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first twelve years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it contains 6658 sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-05 LAT collaboration , Soheila Abdollahi , Fabio Acero , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Bijan Berenji , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Roger D. Blandford , Elliott Bloom , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Richard J. Britto , Philippe Bruel , Toby H. Burnett , Sara Buson , Rob A. Cameron , Regina Caputo , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Daniel Castro , Sylvain Chaty , Teddy C. Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Javier Coronado-Blazquez , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Seth W. Digel , Niccolo Di Lalla , Feraol F. Dirirsa , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Stephen J. Fegan , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Henrike Fleischhack , Anna Franckowiak , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Giorgio Galanti , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Federica Giacchino , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , Thomas Glanzman , David Green , Isabelle A. Grenier , Marie-Helene Grondin , Lucas Guillemot , Sylvain Guiriec , Michael Gustafsson , Alice K. Harding , Liz Hays , John W. Hewitt , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Christopher M. Karwin , Taishu Kayanoki , Matthew T. Kerr , Michael Kuss , David Landriu , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Pasquale Lubrano , Simone Maldera , Dmitry Malyshev , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario N. Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Manuel Meyer , Peter F. Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alex A. Moiseev , Maria E. Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Eric Nuss , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , David Paneque , Zhiyuan Pei , Jeremy S. Perkins , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy A. Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Thierry Reposeur , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , David A. Smith , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Kohei Sueoka , Dan J. Suson , Hiro Tajima , Dongguen Tak , Jana B. Thayer , David J. Thompson , Diego F. Torres , Eleonora Troja , Janeth Valverde , Kent Wood , Gabrijela Zaharijas

We describe an ongoing effort using the Fermi Large Area Telescope to search for gamma-ray emission from a source sample derived from published surveys of variable or transient galactic radio sources.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-27 C. R. Shrader , D. J. Macomb

Observations using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) have found a significant gamma-ray excess surrounding the center of the Milky Way (GC). One possible interpretation of this excess invokes gamma-ray emission from an undiscovered…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tim Linden

We present a new method for identifying blazar candidates by examining the locus, i.e. the region occupied by the Fermi gamma-ray blazars in the three-dimensional color space defined by the WISE infrared colors. This method is a refinement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 R. D'Abrusco , F. Massaro , A. Paggi , N. Masetti , G. Tosti , M. Giroletti , H. A. Smith

In this work, Machine Learning (ML) methods are used to efficiently identify the unassociated sources and the Blazar Candidate of Uncertain types (BCUs) in the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalog (3FGL). The aims are twofold: 1) to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-08 Hubing Xiao , Haitao Cao , Junhui Fan , Denise Costantin , Gaoyong Luo , Zhiyuan Pei

The 2nd Fermi-LAT pulsar catalog includes 117 gamma-ray pulsars, of which roughly one third are millisecond pulsars (MSPs) while the remaining two thirds split evenly into young radio-loud and radio-quiet pulsars. Although this large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew Kerr , the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

We report the detection of two new gamma-ray sources in the Fermi-LAT sky (Pass 8) at energies higher than 20 GeV, and confirmed at lower energies, using a source detection tool based on the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm. One of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 R. Campana , A. Maselli , E. Bernieri , E. Massaro

We compare population synthesis results for inner and outer magnetosphere emission models with the various characteristics measured in the first LAT pulsar catalogue for both the radio-loud and radio-weak or radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter L. Gonthier

The Fermi-LAT has detected more than 3000 sources in the GeV $\gamma$-ray regime. The majority are extra-galactic and these sources are dominated by blazars. However, $\sim28$ per cent of the sources in Fermi 3LAC are listed as blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 L. Klindt , B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes , P. Väisänen

Over 2000 Gamma ray sources identified by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are considered unassociated, meaning that they have no known counterparts in any other frequency regime. We have carried out…

In over two years of operation Fermi-LAT has revolutionized our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. Interstellar gamma rays are part of this new era and allow unprecedented tests for models of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. The extension to lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 A. W. Strong

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

Pulsars are rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron stars emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although there are more than 1800 known radio pulsars, until recently, only seven were observed to pulse in gamma rays and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-07 LAT Collaboration

A significant fraction of all $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the \fer\ satellite is still lacking a low-energy counterpart. In addition, there is still a large population of $\gamma$-ray sources with…