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Thanks to the Fermi gamma-ray satellite and the current Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, radio galaxies have arisen as a new class of high- and very-high energy emitters. The favourable orientation of their jets makes radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Eleonora Torresi

We present the results of archival coincidence analyses using public neutrino data from the 40-string configuration of IceCube (IC40) and contemporaneous public gamma-ray data from Fermi LAT. Our analyses have the potential to discover…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-07 A. Keivani , D. B. Fox , G. Tešić , D. F. Cowen , J. Fixelle

Two years ago, the astronomical community witnessed a historical breakthrough observation: the detection of a short Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) by gamma-ray instruments in coincidence with the detection of a Gravitation Wave (GW) signal produced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Elisabetta Bissaldi

We discuss how future X-ray instruments which are under development can contribute to our understanding of the non-thermal Universe. Much progress has been made in the field of X-ray Astronomy recently, thanks to the operation of modern…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Tadayuki Takahashi , Yasunobu Uchiyama , Lukasz Stawarz

On August 17, 2017 the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detected for the first time gravitational waves from the binary merger of two neutron stars (GW170817). Unlike the merger of two black holes, the associated electromagnetic radiation was also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 J. Piekarewicz

Recent Fermi results have focused attention on gamma-ray burst's (GRB) prompt emission phase, which is rich in phenomenology and poorly understood. The broad band spectra observed by Fermi does not fit into any of the frameworks of existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Asaf Pe'er

The Fermi observatory was launched on June 11, 2008. It hosts the \emph{Large Area Telescope} (LAT), sensitive to $\gamma$-ray photons from 20 MeV to over 300 GeV. When the LAT began its activity, nine young and energetic pulsars were known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-27 Lucas Guillemot

We collect information as complete as possible about the upcoming telescopes and facilities relevant to gamma-ray bursts, both in the electromagnetic bands as well as for non-electromagnetic messengers. We describe the expected synergy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-22 Jochen Greiner , Arne Rau

The LAT instrument on the Fermi mission will reveal the rich spectral and temporal gamma-ray burst phenomena in the > 100 MeV band. The synergy with Fermi's GBM detectors will link these observations to those in the well explored 10-1000…

High-energy photons are a powerful probe for astrophysics and for fundamental physics in extreme conditions. During the recent years, our knowledge of the most violent phenomena in the Universe has impressively progressed thanks to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 Alessandro De Angelis , Manuela Mallamaci

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission towards the Galactic centre (GC) in high-energy gamma-rays. This paper describes the analysis of data taken during the first 62 months of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

Multi-messenger astrophysics, a long-anticipated extension to traditional and multiwavelength astronomy, has recently emerged as a distinct discipline providing unique and valuable insights into the properties and processes of the physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-09 Péter Mészáros , Derek B. Fox , Chad Hanna , Kohta Murase

With the advent of time-domain astronomy and the game-changing next generation of telescopes, we have unprecedented opportunities to explore the most energetic events in our Universe through electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Irene Tamborra

There have been observations, first from the MAGIC Telescope (July 2005) and quite recently (September 2008) from the FERMI Satellite Telescope, on non-simultaneous arrival of high-energy photons from distant celestial sources. In each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-28 Nick E. Mavromatos

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the measurement of the high energy (20 GeV to 1 TeV) cosmic ray electrons and positrons spectrum with unprecedented accuracy. This measurement represents a unique probe for studying the origin and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Dario Grasso

With the coincident detections of electromagnetic radiation together with gravitational waves (GW170817) or neutrinos (TXS 0506+056), the new era of multimessenger astrophysics has begun. Of particular interest are the searches for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Michela Negro , Milena Crnogorčević , Eric Burns , Eric Charles , Lea Marcotulli , Regina Caputo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite is the first gamma-ray instrument to discover pulsars directly via their gamma-ray emission. Roughly one third of the 117 gamma-ray pulsars detected by the LAT in its first three years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

I discuss recent advances being made in the physics and astrophysics of cosmic rays and cosmic gamma-rays at the highest observed energies as well as the related physics and astrophysics of very high energy cosmic neutrinos. I also discuss…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. W. Stecker

During its first six years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected >30 MeV gamma-ray emission from more than 40 solar flares, nearly a factor of 10 more than those detected by EGRET. These include detections of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Omodei , V. Petrosian , W. Liu , F. Rubio da Costa , Q. Chen , M. Pesce-Rollins , E. Grove , F. Longo