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We show the existence of a statistically significant, robust detection of a gamma-ray source in the Milky Way Galactic Center that is consistent with a spatially extended signal using about 4 years of Fermi-LAT data. The gamma-ray flux is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-23 Kevork N. Abazajian , Manoj Kaplinghat

The isotropic diffuse $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB) has been detected by various experiments and recently the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has precisely measured its spectrum in a wide energy range. The origin of the IGRB is still unclear and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Mattia Di Mauro

The GALPROP model for cosmic-ray propagation is able to make explicit predictions for the distribution of galactic diffuse gamma-rays. We compare different propagation models with gamma-ray spectra measured by EGRET for various regions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrew W. Strong , Igor V. Moskalenko , Olaf Reimer

The new tools of gravitational wave and multi-messenger astronomy allow for the study of astrophysical phenomenon in new ways and enables light to be shed on some of the longest-enduring mysteries of high-energy astrophysics. Among the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 Kayla Bartel , Stefano Profumo

We report on a search for steep spectrum radio sources within the 95% confidence error ellipses of the Fermi unassociated sources from the Large Array Telescope (LAT). Using existing catalogs and the newly released GMRT all-sky survey at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 D. A. Frail , K. P. Mooley , P. Jagannathan , H. T. Intema

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revolutionized our knowledge of the gamma-ray pulsar population, leading to the discovery of almost 100 gamma-ray pulsars and dozens of gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Although the outer-gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 A. K. H. Kong , R. H. H. Huang , K. S. Cheng , J. Takata , Y. Yatsu , C. C. Cheung , D. Donato , L. C. C. Lin , J. Kataoka , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam

We have simulated a Galactic population of young pulsars and compared with the Fermi LAT sample, constraining the birth properties, beaming and evolution of these spin-powered objects. Using quantitative tests of agreement with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Kyle P. Watters , Roger W. Romani

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission (DGE) provides a valuable probe for investigating the cosmic ray propagation and interactions within our Galactic environment. Recent observations have demonstrated systematic excesses of DGE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan

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

The detailed origin of the diffuse gamma-ray background is still unknown. However, the contribution of unresolved sources is expected to induce small-scale anisotropies in this emission, which may provide a way to identify and constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. A. Gomez-Vargas , A. Cuoco , T. Linden , M. A. Sanchez-Conde , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , T. Delahaye , M. Fornasa , E. Komatsu , F. Prada , J. Zavala

A direct search of $\gamma$-ray emission centered on multi-frequency selected candidates is a valuable complementary approach to the standard search adopted in current $\gamma$-ray Fermi-LAT catalogs. Our candidates are part of the 2WHSP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Bruno Arsioli , Yu-Ling Chang

During its first four years of scientific observations, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray sources above a 4$\sigma$ significance level. Although most of the extra-Galactic sources are active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. La Mura , G. Chiaro , S. Ciroi , P. Rafanelli , D. Salvetti , M. Berton , V. Cracco

We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Lucas Guillemot

We present a statistical framework which can be used to determine the contribution of an unresolved population of pulsars to the gamma-ray background. This formalism is based on the joint analysis of photon time series over extended regions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-20 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas

We investigate the $\gamma$-ray emission from 38 millisecond pulsars using 15 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data in the 0.3--500 GeV range. Off-pulse intervals defined objectively with the Bayesian Blocks algorithm reveal significant off-pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 Ming-Yu Lei , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zi-Qing Xia , Xiaoyuan Huang

Decaying dark matter particles could be indirectly detected as an excess over a simple power law in the energy spectrum of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background. Furthermore, since the Earth is not located at the center of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

If the gamma-ray excess towards the inner Galaxy (GCE) detected in Fermi-LAT data is due to millisecond pulsars (MSPs), one expects an associated gravitational wave (GW) signal, whose intensity exceeds the disk MSP population emission by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Francesca Calore , Tania Regimbau , Pasquale Dario Serpico

We use data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope (Fermi-LAT) to analyze the faint gamma-ray source located at the center of the Sagittarius (Sgr) dwarf spheroidal galaxy. In the 4FGL-DR3 catalog, this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Addy J. Evans , Louis E. Strigari , Oskar Svenborn , Andrea Albert , J. Patrick Harding , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Andrew B. Pace

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently detected a population of globular clusters (GCs) in high-energy (HE) gamma-rays. Their spectral properties and energetics are consistent with cumulative emission from a population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-08 C. Venter , O. C. de Jager , A. Kopp , I. Büsching

We study possible astrophysical and dark matter (DM) explanations for the Fermi gamma-ray haze in the Milky Way halo. As representatives of various DM models, we consider DM particles annihilating into W+W-, b-bbar, and e+e-. In the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-06 Dmitry Malyshev , Ilias Cholis , Joseph D. Gelfand