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In this work, starting from 21 months of data from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope, we derive maps of the residual isotropic gamma-ray emission, a relevant fraction of which is expected to be contributed by the extragalactic diffuse…

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The gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

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Extraterrestrial gamma-ray astronomy is now a source of new knowledge in the fields of astrophysics, cosmic-ray physics, and the nature of dark matter. The next absolutely necessary step in the development of extraterrestrial high-energy…

The Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to $55^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above $10^\circ$ in Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-22 LAT Collaboration

The statistical distribution of energies among particles responsible for long Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) emission is analyzed in light of recent results of the Fermi Observatory. The allsky flux, $F_{\gamma}$, recorded by the Gamma Ray Burst…

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The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, ex-GLAST) provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It is an adequate telescope to detect transient sources, since the observatory…

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The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 LAT Collaboration

The study of the high-energy (MeV-GeV) part of GRBs spectrum can play a crucial role in investigating the physics of the prompt emission, but it is often hampered by low statistic and the paucity of GeV observations. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-29 M. E. Ravasio , G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini

The inner region of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting and complex regions of the gamma-ray sky. The intense interstellar emission and resolved point sources, as well as potential contributions by other sources such as unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Troy A. Porter , Simona Murgia

The spatial extension of a gamma-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties as well as its potential multi-wavelength counterpart. The capability to spatially resolve gamma-ray sources is greatly improved by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-12 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. M. Cohen , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , C. Sgro , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood , M. Wood

The Fermi-LAT collaboration recently confirmed a discrepancy between the observed longitudinal profile of gamma-ray diffuse emission from the Galaxy and that computed with numerical codes assuming that Cosmic Rays (CRs) are produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Daniele Gaggero , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were confirmed to be of extragalactic origin due to their isotropic angular distribution, combined with the fact that they exhibited an intensity distribution that deviated strongly from the $-3/2$ power law. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mariusz Tarnopolski

Origin of extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) is still a matter of debate. EGRB can either have truly diffuse or unresolved discrete point sources origin. Majority of the Fermi and EGRET detected identified sources are blazar. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , M. Errando , R. Mukherjee , M. Boettcher , P. Sreekumar , R. Misra , P. Coppi

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its improved sensitivity relative to previous generation gamma-ray telescopes, is significantly increasing the number of known gamma-ray sources in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 P. M. Saz Parkinson , M. Dormody , M. Ziegler

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang

In eight years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected a large sample of cosmic-ray protons. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky coverage make it an excellent instrument for studying anisotropy in the arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Meehan , Justin Vandenbroucke

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

We have investigated the empirical lag-luminosity relation in the Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) source-frame. We selected two energy bands (100-200 keV and 300-400 keV) in the GRB source-frame, which after redshift correction, lie in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-02 T. N. Ukwatta , K. S. Dhuga , M. Stamatikos , T. Sakamoto , W. C. Parke , S. D. Barthelmy , N. Gehrels

A significant fraction of all $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the \fer\ satellite is still lacking a low-energy counterpart. In addition, there is still a large population of $\gamma$-ray sources with…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have emerged as powerful cosmological probes for exploring the distant Universe, owing to their immense luminosities and detectability at high redshifts. Several empirical correlations have been established,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 T. K. M. Aldowma , S. Razzaque , R. Martinelli , R. Gupta , F. Longo , N. Omodei , N. Di Lalla , J. L. Racusin , A. H. Airasca