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We report optical photometric and SOAR spectroscopic observations of an X-ray source found within the localization error of the Fermi-LAT unidentified gamma-ray source J0523.5-2529. The optical data show periodic flux modulation and radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Eda Sonbas , Kirill Sokolovsky , David J. Sand , Alexander S. Moskvitin , C. C. Cheung

We observed the field of the Fermi source 3FGL J0838.8-2829 in optical and X-rays, initially motivated by the cataclysmic variable (CV) 1RXS J083842.1-282723 that lies within its error circle. Several X-ray sources first classified as CVs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Jules P. Halpern , Slavko Bogdanov , John R. Thorstensen

We have identified an optical binary with orbital period P_b=4488s as the probable counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J1653.6-0159. Although pulsations have not yet been detected, the source properties are consistent with an evaporating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Roger W. Romani , Alexei V. Filippenko , S. Bradley Cenko

Because of the disappearance of its accretion disk since the time period around 2012 November--December, XSS J12270-4859 has recently been identified as, in addition to PSR J1023+0038, another transitional millisecond pulsar binary. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

We have found an optical/X-ray counterpart candidate for the bright, but presently unidentified, Fermi source 2FGL J1311.7-3429. This counterpart undergoes large amplitude quasi-sinusoidal optical modulation with a 1.56h (5626s) period. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Roger W. Romani

We present a multiwavelength study of the unidentified Fermi gamma-ray source 0FGL J1830.3+0617, which exhibits variability above 200 MeV on timescales of days to weeks. Within the Fermi 95% confidence error contour lies B1827+0617, a radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-12 N. Mirabal , J. P. Halpern

We report multi-wavelength observations of the unidentified Fermi object 2FGL J1653.6-0159. With the help of high-resolution X-ray observation, we have identified an X-ray and optical counterpart of 2FGL J1653.6-0159. The source exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. K. H. Kong , R. Jin , T. -C. Yen , C. P. Hu , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , L. C. C. Lin , K. S. Cheng , S. M. Park , C. L. Kim

We report the results from our analysis of the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope data of the \textit{Fermi} unassociated source 2FGL J1906.5$+$0720, which is a high-ranked candidate pulsar. In order to better study our target, we first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

I obtained time-series photometry of the compact binary candidate for the Fermi source 4FGL J0935.3+0901. Superposed on the 2.44 hr orbital modulation are day-to-day variations and frequent flaring as seen in several redback and black widow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-19 J. P. Halpern

We present the study of multi-wavelength observations of an unidentified Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source, 4FGL J1910.7-5320, a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar binary. In the 4FGL 95% error region of 4FGL J1910.7-5320, we…

We have identified an optical/X-ray binary with orbital period P_b=5.47h as the likely counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J2039.6-5620. GROND, SOAR and DES observations provide an accurate orbital period and allow us to compare with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Roger W. Romani

We report a detailed analysis of $\gamma$-ray data of 2FGL J0509.9+1802 observed by the Large Area Telescope on board {\it Fermi} satellite, especially focusing on April 2013 when extraordinary $\gamma$-ray variability has been detected.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 N. H. Liao , J. M Bai

The Fermi catalogue contains about 2000 unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources. Some of them were recently identified as pulsars, including so called redbacks and black widows, which are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems with non- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 A. V. Karpova , D. A. Zyuzin , Yu. A. Shibanov , M. R. Gilfanov

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

We investigate the use of optical photometric variability to select and identify blazars in large-scale time-domain surveys, in part to aid in the identification of blazar counterparts to the ~30% of gamma-ray sources in the Fermi 2FGL…

1FGL J0523.5$-$2529 is a Fermi selected redback millisecond pulsar candidate that exhibited luminous optical and X-ray flares in 2020-2021. We obtained a simultaneous X-ray and $U$-band observation with XMM-Newton in 2025, the first to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 J. P. Halpern , S. Bogdanov

Blazars display variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with timescales that can range from a few minutes to several years. Our recent work has shown that a sample of five blazars exhibit hints of periodicity with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 P. Peñil , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , J. Otero-Santos , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Zrake

4FGL J1015.5-6030 is an unidentified Fermi-LAT source hosting a bright, extended X-ray source whose X-ray spectrum is consistent with that of a young pulsar, yet no pulsations have been found. Here we report on XMM-Newton timing and Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George Younes , George G. Pavlov , Igor Volkov

We present multi-wavelength observations of the unassociated gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.6-5618 detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The source gamma-ray properties suggest that it is a pulsar, most likely a millisecond pulsar, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 D. Salvetti , R. P. Mignani , A. De Luca , C. Delvaux , C. Pallanca , A. Belfiore , M. Marelli , A. A. Breeveld , J. Greiner , W. Becker , D. Pizzoccaro

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) in tight binary systems represent an important evolutionary link between low-mass X-ray binaries and radio millisecond pulsars. To date, only three confirmed tMSPs and a few candidates have been…

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