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The {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been routinely gathering science data since August 2008, surveying the full sky every three hours. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV (1FHL) relied on three years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , D. Gasparrini , S. Cutini

We present a likelihood profile stacking technique based on the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data to explore the $\gamma$-ray characteristics of {\it Fermi}-LAT undetected astrophysical populations. The pipeline is applied to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-10 Vaidehi S. Paliya , Alberto Dominguez , Marco Ajello , Anna Franckowiak , Dieter Hartmann

The synergy between the Fermi-LAT and ground-based Cherenkov telescope arrays gives us the opportunity for the first time to characterize the high-energy emission from blazars over 5 decades in energy, from 100 MeV to 10 TeV. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. D. Senturk , M. Errando , M. Boettcher , R. Mukherjee

We explore the properties of high-redshift Lyman-alpha emitters (LAE), and their link with the Lyman-Break galaxy population (LBG), using a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation that takes into account resonant scattering of Lya photons…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Garel , J. Blaizot , B. Guiderdoni , L. Michel-Dansac , M. Hayes , A. Verhamme

The analysis of the gamma-ray photons collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals, after removal of astrophysical background, the existence of an excess towards the Galactic center. This excess peaks around few GeV, and its origin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

Faint $\gamma$-ray signatures emerge in Fermi-LAT data stacked scaled to the characteristic $R_{500}$ radii of MCXC galaxy clusters. This third paper in a series shows a $4.3\sigma$ excess of discrete 4FGL-DR4 catalog $\gamma$-ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-14 Uri Keshet

Variable \gama-ray emission from blazars, one of the most powerful classes of astronomical sources featuring relativistic jets, is a widely discussed topic. In this work, we present the results of a variability study of a sample of 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Jaroslaw Duda , Gopal Bhatta

Ever since the discovery by the Fermi mission that active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce copious amounts of high-energy emission, its origin has remained elusive. Using high-frequency radio interferometry (VLBI) polarization imaging, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-15 B. Rani , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher

We update the list of GeV-TeV extragalactic \gamma-ray sources using the 2-year catalog from the Fermi-LAT and recent results ground-based \gamma-ray telescopes. Breaks in the spectra between the high energy (100 MeV <E< 300 GeV) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-05 D. A. Sanchez , S. Fegan , B. Giebels

High energy observations of extreme BL Lac objects, such as 1ES 0229+200 or 1ES 0347-121, recently focused interest both for blazar and jet physics and for the implication on the extragalactic background light and intergalactic magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-25 Giacomo Bonnoli , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Gabriele Ghisellini , Tullia Sbarrato

We study the quasi-simultaneous near-IR, optical, UV, and X-ray photometry of eleven gamma-ray selected blazars for which redshift estimates larger than 1.2 have been recently provided. Four of these objects turn out to be high-power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , A. Rau

We present the first individual and stacking systematic search for $\gamma$-ray emission in the GeV band with the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT), in the directions of 45 super-luminous supernovae (SLSNe). No excess of \gam rays from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Nicolas Renault-Tinacci , Kumiko Kotera , Andrii Neronov , Shin'ichiro Ando

We present the results of the optical spectroscopy follow-up of a sample of 28 unclassified blazars from the Third Fermi-LAT Catalog of High-Energy Sources (3FHL). All the spectra were taken with the 4m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak. With…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Stefano Marchesi , Amanpreet Kaur , Marco Ajello

Based on three years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray data of the Virgo cluster, evidence for an extended emission associated with dark matter pair annihilation in the b b-bar channel has been reported by Han et al. [1]. After…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Oscar Macías-Ramírez , Chris Gordon , Anthony M. Brown , Jenni Adams

Bright and fast gamma-ray flares with hard spectra have been recently detected from the blazar 3C 279, with apparent GeV luminosities up to $10^{49}$ erg/s. The source is observed to flicker on timescales of minutes with no comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 V. Vittorini , M. Tavani , A. Cavaliere

A list of 205 gamma-ray strong objects was reported recently as a result of a 3-month integration with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. We attempted identification of these objects, cross-correlating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. Y. Kovalev

In the recent years, the number of detected very high energy (VHE: E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources has increased rapidly. The sources have been observed at redshifts up to z = 0.536 without strong indications for the presence of absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Dieter Horns , Manuel Meyer

We report on the discovery of high-energy (HE; E > 0.1 GeV) and very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object RBS 0413. VERITAS, a ground-based gamma-ray observatory, detected VHE gamma…

Published EGRET spectra from blazars extend only to 10 GeV, yet EGRET has detected approximately 2000 gamma-rays above 10 GeV of which about half are at high Galactic latitude. We report a search of these high-energy gamma-rays for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Brenda L. Dingus , David L. Bertsch

Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Gamma-ray maps within the region of interest ($|l| \le 60^\circ$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Tomonori Totani