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We perform a search for sources of gamma-rays with energies E>100 GeV at low Galactic latitudes |b|<10 deg using the data of Fermi telescope. To separate compact gamma-ray sources from the diffuse emission from the Galaxy, we use the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

We compare the gamma-ray photon flux variability of northern blazars in the Fermi/LAT First Source Catalog with 37 GHz radio flux density curves from the Metsahovi quasar monitoring program. We find that the relationship between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , E. Nieppola

We present a temporal and spectral analysis of the gamma-ray flux from nine of the brightest flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first eight years of operation, with the aim of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-20 Atreya Acharyya , Paula M. Chadwick , Anthony M. Brown

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite opened a new era for pulsar astronomy, detecting gamma-ray pulsations from more than 60 pulsars, ~40% of which are not seen at radio wavelengths. One of the most interesting sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A. De Luca , M. Marelli , R. P. Mignani , P. A. Caraveo , W. Hummel , S. Collins , A. Shearer , P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Belfiore , G. F. Bignami

The BL Lacertae object 3C 66A was detected in a flaring state by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and VERITAS in 2008 October. In addition to these gamma-ray observations, F-GAMMA, GASP-WEBT, PAIRITEL, MDM, ATOM, Swift, and Chandra…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

During its first six years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected >30 MeV gamma-ray emission from more than 40 solar flares, nearly a factor of 10 more than those detected by EGRET. These include detections of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Omodei , V. Petrosian , W. Liu , F. Rubio da Costa , Q. Chen , M. Pesce-Rollins , E. Grove , F. Longo

In 2008 the blazar Markarian 421 entered a very active phase and was one of the brightest sources in the sky at TeV energies, showing frequent flaring episodes. Using the data of ARGO-YBJ, a full coverage air shower detector located at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Aielli et al.

We present optical photopolarimetric observations of the BL Lac object S4 0954+658 obtained with the 70-cm telescope in Crimea, 40-cm telescope in St.Petersburg, and 1.8-m Perkins telescope at Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Az). After a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-27 V. M. Larionov , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , D. A. Morozova , I. S. Troitsky , D. A. Blinov , E. N. Kopatskaya , E. G. Larionova

We present an updated version catalogue of gamma-ray source candidates, 12Y-MST, selected using the minimum spanning tree (MST) algorithm on the 12-year Fermi-LAT sky (Pass 8) at energies higher than 10 GeV. The high-energy sky at absolute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 R. Campana , E. Massaro

We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of long-term $\gamma$-ray transient sources (1FLT). This comprises sources that were detected on monthly time intervals during the first decade of Fermi-LAT operations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 L. Baldini , J. Ballet , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , A. Berretta , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , S. Chen , G. Chiaro , D. Ciangottini , S. Ciprini , P. Cristarella Orestano , M. Crnogorcevic , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , F. Dirirsa , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , H. Fleischhack , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , S. Griffin , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , R. Imazawa , G. Jóhannesson , M. Kerr , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , H. Matake , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Nagasawa , M. Negro , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , M. Palatiello , V. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , K. Wood , M. Yassine , G. Zaharijas

We report the discovery of a $\sim$ $3.4\degr$-wide region of high-energy emission in data from the \emph{Fermi} LAT satellite. The centroid of the emission is located in the Southern Hemisphere sky, a few degrees away from the plane of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-26 Miguel Araya

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

The Second Fermi LAT source catalog (Nolan et al. 2012) includes as many as 1,873 sources, but initial attempts to identify counterparts at other wavelengths resulted in 575 sources remaining unidentified. The 2FGL catalog is based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Masaki Nishimichi , Takeshi Okuda , Masaki Mori , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens

We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the entire sky observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Abdollahi , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. Conrad , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , A. Desai , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , B. Donaggio , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , M. Giomi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , E. Hays , D. Horan , T. Jogler , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , C. Sgrò , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Stawarz , D. J. Suson , M. Takahashi , K. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , E. Torresi , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood

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

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on June 11, 2008, 55 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been observed at coordinates that fall within 66^\circ of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) boresight with precise localizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. W. Akerlof , W. Zheng , S. B. Pandey , T. A. McKay

High-redshift ($z>2$) blazars are the most powerful members of the blazar family. Yet, only a handful of them have both X-ray and $\gamma$-ray detection, thereby making it difficult to characterize the energetics of the most luminous jets.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. Ajello , R. Ojha , R. Angioni , C. C. Cheung , K. Tanada , T. Pursimo , P. Galindo , I. R. Losada , L. Siltala , A. A. Djupvik , L. Marcotulli , D. Hartmann

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been continuously providing good quality survey data of the entire sky in the high energy range from 30 MeV to 500 GeV and above since August 2008. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 A. Pathania , K. K. Singh , S. K. Singh , A. Tolamatti , B. B. Singh , K. K. Yadav

The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a daily quicklook analysis and review of the high-energy gamma-ray sky seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The duty offers alerts for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Ciprini , D. Gasparrini , D. Bastieri , J. Chiang , G. Tosti