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We present cross-correlation studies of gamma-ray (0.1-300 GeV), X-ray (0.2-10 keV) and optical (R-band) variability of a sample of 26 blazars during 2008-2016. The light curves are from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and the Yale-SMARTS blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Anwesh Majumder , Kaustav Mitra , Ritaban Chatterjee , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , Prantik Nandi

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 availability of about a decade of uninterrupted sky monitoring by the Fermi satellite has made possible to study long-term quasi-periodicities for high-energy sources. It is therefore not a surprise that for several blazars in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Stefano Covino , Angela Sandrinelli , Aldo Treves

The advent of the Fermi-GST with its unprecedented capability to monitor the entire 4 pi sky within less than 2-3 hours, introduced new standard in time domain gamma-ray astronomy. To explore this new avenue of extragalactic physics the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Myserlis , J. A. Zensus , I. Nestoras , V. Karamanavis , N. Marchili , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Kraus , J. P. Rachen

A key goal of radio and $\gamma-$ray observations of active galactic nuclei is to characterize their time variability in order to elucidate physical processes responsible for the radiation. I describe algorithms for relevant time series…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-25 Jeffrey D. Scargle

We introduce and apply a methodology based on dynamic time warping (DTW) to compare the whole set of gamma-ray light curves reported in the Third Fermi-Large Area Telescope Pulsar Catalogue. Our method allows us to quantitatively measure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 C. R. García , Diego F. Torres

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) will be a new multi-purpose radio telescope operating in the frequency range 10-88 MHz. Scientific programs include pulsars, supernova remnants, general transient searches, radio recombination lines, solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-11 G. B. Taylor , The LWA Collaboration

There are only a few sources that are definitely known to be gamma-ray binaries. Two of these are listed as associations in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List. We are developing novel techniques to extract high signal-to-noise light curves of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-27 Robin H. D. Corbet , Matthew Kerr

Ongoing and future surveys with repeat imaging in multiple bands are producing (or will produce) time-spaced measurements of brightness, resulting in the identification of large numbers of variable sources in the sky. A large fraction of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Abhijit Saha , A. Katherina Vivas

Timing techniques offer powerful tools to study dynamical astrophysical phenomena. In the X-ray band, they offer the potential of probing accretion physics down to the event horizon. Recent work has used frequency and energy-dependent time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Abderahmen Zoghbi , Chris Reynolds , Ed Cackett

The LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is performing an all-sky survey from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. This is providing a wealth of new information on the non-thermal emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. W. Strong

Variable \gama-ray emission from blazars, one of the most powerful classes of astronomical sources featuring relativistic jets, is a widely discussed topic. In this work, we present the results of a variability study of a sample of 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Jaroslaw Duda , Gopal Bhatta

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 have measured the gamma-ray emission spectrum of the Moon using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite during its first 7 years of operation, in the energy range from 30 MeV up to a few GeV. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-14 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , F. Costanza , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Di Venere , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , S. Guiriec , A. K. Harding , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Iafrate , G. Johannesson , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , J. Magill , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , S. Murgia , E. Nuss , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , G. Pivato , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , H. Takahashi , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , M. Yassine , F. Cerutti , A. Ferrari , P. R. Sala

A variety of statistical methods for understanding variability in the time domain for low count rate X-ray and gamma-ray sources are explored. Variability can be detected using nonparametric (Anderson-Darling and overdispersion tests) and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Eric D. Feigelson , Vinay L. Kashyap , Aneta Siemiginowska

Since its launch in 2008 June, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics. The unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and effective area of the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi, together…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando

Since the launch of the Fermi Large Area Telescope in 2008 the number of known ${\gamma}$-ray pulsars has increased immensely to over 200, many of which are also visible in the radio and X-ray bands. Seyffert et al. (2011) demonstrated how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-07 A. S. Seyffert , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , J. Allison , W. D. Schutte

Blazars, a subset of powerful active galactic nuclei, feature relativistic jets that shine in a broadband electromagnetic radiation, e. g. from radio to TeV emission. Here I present the results of the studies that explore gamma-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

After seven years of science operation, the Fermi mission has brought great advances in the study of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs). Over 1600 GRBs have been detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and more than 100 of these are also detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-19 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Francesco Longo , Nicola Omodei , Giacomo Vianello , Andreas von Kienlin

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…