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We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang

Recently, tentative evidence for an excess of gamma rays at energies around 130 GeV has been reported from analyses of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The excess is potentially of great interest, as it could be associated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-04 Stefano Profumo , Tim Linden

The Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is an all sky gamma-ray monitor well known in the gamma-ray burst community. Although GBM excels in detecting the hard, bright extragalactic GRBs, its sensitivity above 8 keV and all-sky view make it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 P. A. Jenke , M. Linares , V. Connaughton , E. Beklen , A. Camero-Arranz , M. H. Finger , C. A. Wilson-Hodge

The future space-based GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope will operate onboard the Russian astrophysical observatory in a highly elliptic orbit during 7 years to observe Galactic plane, Galactic Center, Fermi Bubbles, Crab, Vela, Cygnus X,…

Gamma-ray bursts are still not fully understood events. However, their exploration could provide a useful tool for a better understanding of the early Universe because they belong to the most distant and violent objects that astronomers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-13 Jakub Ripa

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are extra-galactic and extremely energetic transient emissions of gamma rays, which are thought to be associated with the death of massive stars or the merger of compact objects in binary systems. Their huge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 F. Piron

Recently, a spatially extended excess of gamma rays collected by the Fermi-LAT from the inner region of the Milky Way has been detected by different groups and with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Yet, any final conclusion about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

The astrophysical $\gamma$-ray photons carry the signatures of the violent phenomena happening on various astronomical scales in our Universe. This includes supernova remnants, pulsars, and pulsar wind nebulae in the Galactic environment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected the gamma-ray glow emanating from the giant radio lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A. The resolved gamma-ray image shows the lobes clearly separated from the central active source. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-22 LAT Collaboration

Present knowledge indicates that gamma-ray bursts are linked with massive stars. They will become invaluable probes of the early universe and galaxy formation. In the future, it will be possible to use gamma-ray bursts for two purposes: 1)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. F. Mirabel , D. B. Sanders , E. Le Floc'h

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious flash phenomenon detected in radio wavelengths with a duration of only a few milliseconds, and they may also have prompt gamma-ray flashes. Here we carry out a blind search for msec-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-07 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani , Norita Kawanaka

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

Three years after the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, both of its scientific instruments are operating perfectly and continuing to make breakthroughs in astrophysics, particle physics, and atmospheric science. I report here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-27 V. Connaughton , the GBM Team

The Fermi satellite has recently detected gamma ray emission from the central regions of our Galaxy. This may be evidence for dark matter particles, a major component of the standard cosmological model, annihilating to produce high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 Timothy D. Brandt , Bence Kocsis

Gamma-rays, the most energetic photons, carry information from the far reaches of extragalactic space with minimal interaction or loss of information. They bring messages about particle acceleration in environments so extreme they cannot be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-15 Kristi Engel , Jordan Goodman , Petra Huentemeyer , Carolyn Kierans , Tiffany R. Lewis , Michela Negro , Marcos Santander , David A. Williams , Alice Allen , Tsuguo Aramaki , Rafael Alves Batista , Mathieu Benoit , Peter Bloser , Jennifer Bohon , Aleksey E. Bolotnikov , Isabella Brewer , Michael S. Briggs , Chad Brisbois , J. Michael Burgess , Eric Burns , Regina Caputo , Gabriella A. Carini , S. Bradley Cenko , Eric Charles , Stefano Ciprini , Valerio D'Elia , Tansu Daylan , James Distel , Axel Donath , Wade Duvall , Henrike Fleischhack , Corinne Fletcher , Wen Fe Fong , Dario Gasparrini , Marco Giardino , Adam Goldstein , Sean Griffin , J. Eric Grove , Rachel Hamburg , J. Patrick Harding , Jeremy Hare , Boyan Hristov , C. Michelle Hui , Tess Jaffe , Pete Jenke , Oleg Kargaltsev , Christopher M. Karwin , Matthew Kerr , Dongsung Kim , Daniel Kocevski , John Krizmanic , Ranjan Laha , Niccolo Di Lalla , Jason Legere , Cristina Leto , Richard Leys , Fabrizio Lucarelli , Israel Martinez-Castellanos , Alessandro Maselli , M. Nicola Mazziotta , Mark McConnell , Julie McEnery , Jessica Metcalfe , Manuel Meyer , Alexander A. Moiseev , Reshmi Mukherjee , Michela Negro , Keiichi Ogasawara , Nicola Omodei , Ivan Peric , Jeremy S. Perkins , Matteo Perri , Carlotta Pittori , Gianluca Polenta , Daniel Poulson , Robert Preece , Giacomo Principe , Judith L. Racusin , Oliver Roberts , Nicholas L. Rodd , Peter Shawhan , Thomas Shutt , Clio Sleator , Alan Smale , John Smedley , Jacob R. Smith , Jay Tasson , Peter Teuben , John Tomsick , Peter Veres , Francesco Verrecchia , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge , Joshua Wood , Richard S. Woolf , Hui Yang , Bing Zhang , Haocheng Zhang , Andreas Zoglauer

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are a mixed class of sources consisting of, at least, the long duration and short-hard subclasses, the X-ray flashes, and the low-luminosity GRBs. In all cases, the release of enormous amounts of energy on a short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-24 Charles D. Dermer , Chris L. Fryer

The strongest experimental evidence for dark matter is the Galactic Center gamma-ray excess observed by the Fermi telescope and even predicted prior to discovery as a potential dark matter signature via WIMP dark matter self-annihilations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-11 Moorits Mihkel Muru , Joseph Silk , Noam I. Libeskind , Stefan Gottloeber , Yehuda Hoffman

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