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The Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) aboard CGRO monitored the whole sky through 8 NaI(Tl) crystal scintillators sensitive in the 20 keV - 2 MeV energy band continuously from April 1991 until June 2000. Results are presented on…

We present in this paper the results of a comprehensive GEANT simulation of the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector (GRID) being developed for the AGILE space astrophysics mission. The GRID is designed to be sensitive in the 30 MeV - 50 GeV energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Francesco Longo , Veronica Cocco , Marco Tavani

This white paper discusses the breadth of science related to active galactic nuclei (AGN) and associated phenomena to be enabled by a mission with microcalorimeter energy resolution in the soft X-ray band, a large collecting area, and…

We present the results of 2.5 years of AGILE observations of PSR B1509-58 and of the same interval of Fermi observations. The modulation significance of AGILE light curve above 30 MeV is at a 5 sigma confidence level and the light curve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Maura Pilia , Alberto Pellizzoni

Astro-COLIBRI is an innovative tool designed for professional astronomers to facilitate the study of transient astronomical events. Transient events - such as supernovae, gamma-ray bursts and stellar mergers - are fleeting cataclysmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 Fabian Schüssler , M. de Bony de Lavergne , A. Kaan Alkan , J. Mourier , P. Reichherzer

3C 84 is a nearby Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) that is unique in that is believed that we are observing near the true jet launching region - unlike blazars. The source is active in Gamma rays and has been detected with Fermi since its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-09 Jeffrey A. Hodgson , Bindu Rani , Junghwan Oh

We present sensipy, an open-source Python toolkit for simulating observations of transient astrophysical sources, particularly in the high-energy (HE, keV-GeV) and very-high-energy (VHE, GeV-TeV) gamma-ray ranges. The most explosive events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Jarred G. Green , Barbara Patricelli , Antonio Stamerra , Monica Seglar-Arroyo

In the last 15 years, 6 dedicated observation programs were carried out to monitor ~20 deg around the galactic center for transient activity above a few keV. Transient activity from low-mass X-ray binaries shows a strong preference for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean in 't Zand

In this work, we propose a deep learning-based classification model of astronomical objects using alerts reported by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The model takes as inputs sequences of stamp images and metadata contained in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Daniel Neira O. , Pablo A. Estévez , Francisco Förster

The gamma-ray tracking technique is one of the highly efficient detection method in experimental nuclear structure physics. On the basis of this method, two gamma-ray tracking arrays, AGATA in Europe and GRETA in the USA, are currently…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-01-17 Serkan Akkoyun , Nihat Yildiz

We have performed targeted searches of known extragalactic transient events at millimetre wavelengths using nine seasons (2013--2021) of 98, 150, and 229\,GHz Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) observations that mapped ${\sim}40$ per cent of…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are highly energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes in galaxies, which present unique observational signatures covering the full electromagnetic spectrum (and more) over…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Stefano Bianchi , Vincenzo Mainieri , Paolo Padovani

The data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory are analyzed to search for coincidences between the arrival directions of high-energy cosmic rays and the positions in the sky of astrophysical transients. Special attention is directed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Luis Anchordoqui

The ANTARES telescope has the opportunity to detect transient neutrino sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, core-collapse supernovae, flares of active nuclei... To enhance the sensitivity to these sources, we have developed a new detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 D. Dornic , S. Basa , J. Brunner , I. Al Samarai , J. Busto , A. Klotz , S. Escoffier , V. Bertin , B. Vallage , B. Gendre , A. Mazure , M. Boer

SKA's large field of view and high sensitivity at low frequencies will provide almost a complete coverage of the very early rising phase of extragalactic and Galactic transients which undergo a flare or outburst due to an abrupt accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-21 Wenfei Yu , Hui Zhang , Zhen Yan , Wenda Zhang

The $\gamma$-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN), including both beamed blazars and misaligned-AGN, dominates the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray point-source population count and flux. While multi-wavelength studies have detected an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-26 Milena Crnogorčević , Tim Linden , Annika H. G. Peter

As a critical part of the Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry (TANAMI) program, in November 2007 the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) started monitoring the radio spectra of a sample of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-14 J. Stevens , P. G. Edwards , R. Ojha , M. Kadler , F. Hungwe , M. Dutka , S. Tingay , J. P. Macquart , A. Moin , J. Lovell , J. Blanchard