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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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-25 Sylvain Chaty

A significant fraction ($\sim 30$ %) of the high-energy gamma-ray sources listed in the second $\textit{Fermi}$ LAT (2FGL) catalog are still of unknown origin, being not yet associated with counterparts at lower energies. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Paggi , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , H. A. Smith , N. Masetti , M. Giroletti , G. Tosti , S. Funk

Based on the first 13.4 yr of Fermi science data in the energy range from 300 MeV to 500 GeV, we discovered a bright GeV gamma-ray source with a $\sim$5.64 $\sigma$ detection, named Fermi J1242.5+3236, which has an offset of about 0fdg0996…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-31 Xiu-Rong Mo , Ming-Hong Luo , Hong-bin Tan , Qing-Wen Tang , Ruo-Yu Liu

This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half are neutron stars discovered using LAT data, through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 LAT collaboration

With assistance of the identified/associated sources in the second Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog, we analyze and resolve the spatial distribution and the distributions of the gamma-ray spectral and variability indices of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhu Mao , Yun-Wei Yu

Cosmic rays are mostly composed of protons accelerated to relativistic speeds. When those protons encounter interstellar material, they produce neutral pions which in turn decay into gamma rays. This offers a compelling way to identify the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 LAT Collaboration , S. Abdollahi , F. Acero , M. Ackermann , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , A. Berretta , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , G. Chiaro , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , J. Coronado-Blázquez , M. Crnogorcevic , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , S. De Gaetano , N. Di Lalla , F. Dirirsa , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , S. J. Fegan , A. Fiori , H. Fleischhack , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , V. Gammaldi , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kayanoki , M. Kerr , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , E. Nuss , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , R. Pillera , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , K. Sueoka , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , J. Valverde , Z. Wadiasingh , K. Wood , G. Zaharijas

A direct search of $\gamma$-ray emission centered on multi-frequency selected candidates is a valuable complementary approach to the standard search adopted in current $\gamma$-ray Fermi-LAT catalogs. Our candidates are part of the 2WHSP…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Bruno Arsioli , Yu-Ling Chang

We construct a systematic survey of extragalactic \gamma-ray sky at the energies above 100 GeV using the data of Fermi telescope. Such survey has not been previously done by the ground-based Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes which have,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk

We present the results of a search for high-energy gamma-ray emission from a large sample of galaxy clusters sharing the properties of three existing Fermi-LAT detections (in Perseus, Virgo and Abell 3392), namely a powerful radio source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 K. L. Dutson , R. J. White , A. C. Edge , J. A. Hinton , M. T. Hogan

Searching for low energy counterparts of gamma-ray sources is one of the major challenges in modern gamma-ray astronomy. In the third Fermi source catalog about 30 % of detected sources are unidentified/unassociated Gamma-ray Sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-26 Peña-Herazo , H. A. , Marchesini , E. J. , Álvarez Crespo , N. , Ricci , F. , Massaro , F. , Chavushyan , V. , Landoni , M. , Strader , J. , Chomiuk , L. , Cheung , C. C. , Masetti , N. , Jiménez-Bailón , E. , D'Abrusco , R. , Paggi , A. , Milisavljevic , D. , La Franca , F. , Smith , H. A. , Tosti , G.

The third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the $\gamma$-ray emission of those objects is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 F. K. Schinzel , L. Petrov , G. B. Taylor , P. G. Edwards

Very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as SNRs, pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, AGN, gamma-ray binaries, molecular clouds, and possibly star-forming regions as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-19 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

We present the systematic spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first ten years of operation. This catalog contains two types of spectra; time-integrated spectral fits…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope revealed that the extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by blazars, active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose jet is seen at very small angle to the line of sight. To associate and then classify the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , T. An

Previous analyses of point sources in the gamma-ray range were done either below 30 MeV or above 100 MeV. Below 30 MeV, the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) onboard NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory detected 26 steady sources in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Giacomo Principe , Dmitry Malyshev , Stefan Funk

During its first four years of scientific observations, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray sources above a 4$\sigma$ significance level. Although most of the extra-Galactic sources are active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 G. La Mura , G. Chiaro , S. Ciroi , P. Rafanelli , D. Salvetti , M. Berton , V. Cracco

Over 2000 Gamma ray sources identified by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are considered unassociated, meaning that they have no known counterparts in any other frequency regime. We have carried out…

The F -GAMMA program is a coordinated effort of several observing facilities to understand the AGN/blazar phenomenon via a multi-frequency monitoring approach, especially in the era of Fermi-GST. Some 60 prominent sources are monitored…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-01 E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Nestoras , J. A. Zensus , N. Marchili , V. Pavlidou , T. P. Krichbaum

Over thirteen times more gamma-ray pulsars have now been studied with the Large Area Telescope on NASA's Fermi satellite than the ten seen with the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory in the nineteen-nineties. The large sample is diverse,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Xian Hou , David A. Smith , Thierry Reposeur , Romain Rousseau

We report on the detection of a gamma-ray source at the position of the nearby star-forming galaxy (SFG) M83, which is found from our analysis of 14 years of the data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board {\it Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang