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We report the Fermi-LAT discovery of high-energy (MeV/GeV) gamma-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at a source significance of over 10 sigma in ten-months of all-sky survey data. Following the…

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The origin of sub-TeV gamma rays detected by Fermi-LAT from the Fermi bubbles at the Galactic center is still unknown. In a hadronic model, acceleration of protons and/or nuclei and their subsequent interactions with gas in the bubble…

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The discovery of the Fermi bubbles---a huge bilobular structure seen in GeV gamma-rays above and below the Galactic center---implies the presence of a large reservoir of high energy particles at $\sim 10 \, \text{kpc}$ from the disk. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Philipp Mertsch , Vahé Petrosian

We conducted an analysis of gamma-ray variability in a large sample of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by utilizing archival Fermi-LAT light curves and applying damped random walk modeling to obtain variability amplitude. Our primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaoling Yu , Xiaogu Zhong , Xiaotong Guo , Nan Ding

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi, launched on 2008 June 11, is a space telescope to explore the high energy gamma-ray universe. The instrument covers the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with greatly improved sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-18 Damien Parent

The diffuse gamma ray emission from astrophysical backgrounds in our Galaxy and the signal due to the annihilation or decay of Dark Matter (DM) in the Galactic Halo are expected to have a substantially different morphology and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang , Jan Conrad

With ten years of operation and an exceptional dataset, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope allows us to unveil the detailed composition of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky above $\rm 100\,MeV$. In this paper, we derive the intrinsic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Lea Marcotulli , Mattia Di Mauro , Marco Ajello

An excess of $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic Center (GC) region with respect to predictions based on a variety of interstellar emission models and $\gamma$-ray source catalogs has been found by many groups using data from the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 LAT Collaboration

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. A. Abdo

Building on our previous cross-correlation analysis (Xia et al. 2011) between the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) and different tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe, we update our results using 60-months of data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun-Qing Xia , Alessandro Cuoco , Enzo Branchini , Matteo Viel

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) was launched on June 11, 2008 and began its first year sky survey on August 11, 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), a wide field-of-view pair-conversion telescope covering the energy range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-30 Peter F. Michelson , William B. Atwood , Steven Ritz

The Fermi-LAT survey provides a large sample of blazars selected on the strength of their inverse Compton emission. We cross-correlate the first Fermi-LAT catalogue with the CRATES radio catalogue and use this sample to investigate whether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-28 J. A. Gupta , I. W. A. Browne , M. W. Peel

The $Fermi$ gamma-ray telescope discovered a pair of bubbles at the Galactic center. These structures are spatially-correlated with the microwave emission detected by the WMAP and Planck satellites. These bubbles were likely inflated by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 M. Ruszkowski , H. -Y. K. Yang , E. Zweibel

Most of the diffuse Galactic GeV gamma-ray emission is produced via collisions of cosmic ray (CR) protons with ISM protons. As such the observed spectra of the gamma-rays and the CRs should be strongly linked. Recent observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Lara Nava , David Benyamin , Tsvi Piran , Nir J. Shaviv

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first three years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 LAT Collaboration

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of $\sim 10^{-2} ~{\rm MeV~ cm}^{-2}~ {\rm s}^{-1}~ {\rm sr}^{-1}$ in the 1-30 MeV energy range from the inner Galactic region, has remained unsettled since its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Naomi Tsuji , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Hiroki Yoneda , Reshmi Mukherjee , Hirokazu Odaka

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR3, for Data Release 3) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first twelve years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it contains 6658 sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-05 LAT collaboration , Soheila Abdollahi , Fabio Acero , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Bijan Berenji , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Roger D. Blandford , Elliott Bloom , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Richard J. Britto , Philippe Bruel , Toby H. Burnett , Sara Buson , Rob A. Cameron , Regina Caputo , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Daniel Castro , Sylvain Chaty , Teddy C. Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Javier Coronado-Blazquez , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Seth W. Digel , Niccolo Di Lalla , Feraol F. Dirirsa , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Stephen J. Fegan , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Henrike Fleischhack , Anna Franckowiak , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Giorgio Galanti , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Federica Giacchino , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , Thomas Glanzman , David Green , Isabelle A. Grenier , Marie-Helene Grondin , Lucas Guillemot , Sylvain Guiriec , Michael Gustafsson , Alice K. Harding , Liz Hays , John W. Hewitt , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Christopher M. Karwin , Taishu Kayanoki , Matthew T. Kerr , Michael Kuss , David Landriu , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Pasquale Lubrano , Simone Maldera , Dmitry Malyshev , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario N. Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Manuel Meyer , Peter F. Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alex A. Moiseev , Maria E. Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Eric Nuss , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , David Paneque , Zhiyuan Pei , Jeremy S. Perkins , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy A. Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Thierry Reposeur , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , David A. Smith , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Kohei Sueoka , Dan J. Suson , Hiro Tajima , Dongguen Tak , Jana B. Thayer , David J. Thompson , Diego F. Torres , Eleonora Troja , Janeth Valverde , Kent Wood , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The extragalactic sources of ultra-high-energy (E > 4x10^19 eV) cosmic rays that make a small contribution to the flux of particles recorded by ground-based arrays are discussed. We show that cosmic rays from such sources can produce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-09 Anna Uryson

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of $\sim ~ 10^{-2}$ MeV cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ in the 1-30 MeV range, has remained unsettled since its discovery in 1994. We investigate the origin of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-02 Naomi Tsuji , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Hiroki Yoneda , Reshmi Mukherjee , Hirokazu Odaka