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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

Revealing the nature of unassociated high-energy (> 100 MeV) gamma-ray sources remains a challenge 35 years after their discovery. Of the 934 gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitude (|b| > 15 degrees) in the First Fermi-LAT catalogue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-25 N. Mirabal , D. Nieto , S. Pardo

Orbiting x-ray and gamma ray instruments are subject to large background count rates due to local particle fluxes in the space environment. The ability of an instrument to make calibrated measurements of the flux from a source of interest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. E. Shaw , M. J. Westmore , A. J. Bird , A. J. Dean , C. Ferguson , J. J. Lockley , D. R. Willis

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…

We present a statistical technique which can be used to detect the presence and properties of moving sources contributing to a diffuse background. The method is a generalization of the 2-point correlation function to include temporal as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas

Clusters of galaxies have not yet been detected at gamma-ray frequencies; however, the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly known as GLAST, could provide the first detections in the near future. Clusters are expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-14 Tesla E. Jeltema , John Kehayias , Stefano Profumo

We describe a method for detecting, locating and quantifying sources of gas emissions to the atmosphere using remotely obtained gas concentration data; the method is applicable to gases of environmental concern. We demonstrate its…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-12 Bill Hirst , Philip Jonathan , Fernando Gonzalez del Cueto , David Randell , Oliver Kosut

Much of our current understanding of neutral, atomic gas in galaxies comes from radio observations of the nearby Universe. Until the next generation of instruments allow us to push to much higher redshifts, we must rely mostly upon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-02 E. C. Elson , S. L. Blyth , A. J. Baker

The contribution of unresolved sources to the diffuse gamma-ray background could produce anisotropies in this emission on small angular scales. Recent studies have considered the angular power spectrum and other anisotropy metrics as tools…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

Despite the growing number of gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi-LAT, about one third of the sources in each survey remains of uncertain type. We present a new deep neural network approach for the classification of unidentified or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

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 the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Giacomo Principe , Leonardo Di Venere , Giulia Migliori , Monica Orienti , Filippo D'Ammando

At GeV energies, the sky is dominated by the interstellar emission from the Galaxy. With limited statistics and spatial resolution, accurately separating point sources is therefore challenging. Here we present the first application of deep…

The gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. J. Thompson

We describe an X-ray source detection method entirely based on the maximum likelihood analysis, in application to observations with the ART-XC telescope onboard the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma observatory. The method optimally combines the data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 A. Semena , A. Vikhlinin , I. Mereminskiy , A. Lutovinov , A. Tkachenko , I. Lapshov , R. Burenin

Associating gamma-ray sources to their low-energy counterparts is one of the major challenges of modern gamma-ray astronomy. In the context of the Fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL), the associations rely mainly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 Raniere de Menezes , Raffaele D'Abrusco , Francesco Massaro , Dario Gasparrini , Rodrigo Nemmen

The supporting instrument on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is a wide-field gamma-ray monitor composed of 14 individual scintillation detectors, with a field of view which encompasses the entire…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gerard Fitzpatrick , Sheila McBreen , Valerie Connaughton , Michael Briggs , the GBM Team

Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center (GC) have revealed a spherically- symmetric excess of GeV gamma rays extending to at least 10 deg from the dynamical center of the Galaxy. A critical uncertainty in extracting the intensity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite allows us to study the high-energy gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. However, the origin of 31% of the detected gamma-ray sources remains unknown. This population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Dieter Horns

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrinsic spectral and flux properties of the source sample. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 LAT Collaboration
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