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Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of the gamma-ray source 4FGL J1702.7-5655, previously classified as a candidate millisecond pulsar, show highly-significant modulation at a period of 0.2438033 days (~ 5.85 hours).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 R. H. D. Corbet , L. Chomiuk , J. B. Coley , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , N. Islam , V. A. McBride , J. Stevens , J. Strader , S. J. Swihart , L. J. Townsend

We have discovered a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar binary near the center of the error ellipse of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray source 4FGL J0940.3-7610. The candidate counterpart is a variable optical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Samuel J. Swihart , Jay Strader , Elias Aydi , Laura Chomiuk , Kristen C. Dage , Laura Shishkovsky

We present an analysis of high energy (HE; 0.1-300 GeV) gamma-ray observations of 1FGL J1227.9-4852 with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, follow-up radio observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Giant Metrewave Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-27 A. B. Hill , A. Szostek , S. Corbel , F. Camilo , R. H. D. Corbet , R. Dubois , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , E. C. Ferrara , M. Kerr , E. Koerding , D. Kozieł , Ł. Stawarz

We present multi-wavelength observations of the unassociated gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.6-5618 detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The source gamma-ray properties suggest that it is a pulsar, most likely a millisecond pulsar, for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-16 D. Salvetti , R. P. Mignani , A. De Luca , C. Delvaux , C. Pallanca , A. Belfiore , M. Marelli , A. A. Breeveld , J. Greiner , W. Becker , D. Pizzoccaro

We report multi-wavelength observations of the unidentified Fermi object 2FGL J1653.6-0159. With the help of high-resolution X-ray observation, we have identified an X-ray and optical counterpart of 2FGL J1653.6-0159. The source exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. K. H. Kong , R. Jin , T. -C. Yen , C. P. Hu , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , L. C. C. Lin , K. S. Cheng , S. M. Park , C. L. Kim

We report the discovery of two new Galactic accreting compact objects consistent with the respective positions of the unassociated Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources 4FGL J0639.1--8009 and 4FGL J1824.2+1231. A combination of new and archival X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Rebecca Kyer , Subhroja Roy , Jay Strader , Ryan Urquhart , Isabella Molina , Peter Craig , Laura Chomiuk

We report on a discovery of a promising candidate as a black widow millisecond pulsar binary, 4FGL J0336.0+7502, which shows many pulsar-like properties in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. Within the 95% error region of the LAT source, we identified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kwan-Lok Li , Y. X. Jane Yap , Chung Yue Hui , Albert K. H. Kong

The gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 consists of an O6V((f)) type star and an unknown compact object, and shows orbitally modulated emission from radio to very high energy gamma rays. The X-ray light curve shows a maximum around the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 B. van Soelen , S. Mc Keague , D. Malyshev , M. Chernyakova , N. Komin , N. Matchett , I. M. Monageng

Gamma-ray binaries consist of a neutron star or a black hole interacting with a normal star to produce gamma-ray emission that dominates the radiative output of the system. Only a handful of such systems have been previously discovered, all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 R. H. D. Corbet , L. Chomiuk , M. J. Coe , J. B. Coley , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , P. Martin , V. A. McBride , J. Stevens , J. Strader , L. J. Townsend , A. Udalski

We have identified an optical/X-ray binary with orbital period P_b=5.47h as the likely counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J2039.6-5620. GROND, SOAR and DES observations provide an accurate orbital period and allow us to compare with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Roger W. Romani

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been firmly established as a class of gamma-ray emitters via the detection of pulsations above 0.1 GeV from eight MSPs by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using thirteen months of LAT data significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , Pulsar Timing Consortium

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

We report the detection of a possible gamma-ray counterpart of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. The analysis of ~6 years of data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi-LAT) within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , A. Papitto , J. Li , N. Rea , D. F. Torres , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , A. Riggio , A. Sanna

XSS J12270-4859 is an X-ray binary associated with the Fermi LAT gamma-ray source 1FGL J1227.9-4852. In 2012 December, this source underwent a transition where the X-ray and optical luminosity dropped and the spectral signatures of an…

We present X-ray observations of the "redback" eclipsing radio millisecond pulsar and candidate radio pulsar/X-ray binary transition object PSR J1723-2837. The X-ray emission from the system is predominantly non-thermal and exhibits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Slavko Bogdanov , Paolo Esposito , Fronefield Crawford , Andrea Possenti , Maura A. McLaughlin , Paulo Freire

We investigate the gamma-ray and X-ray emission from the transient gamma-ray source Fermi J0035+6131, which was discovered with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) near the Galactic plane at $b=1.3^\circ$, and we discuss potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-16 Dirk Pandel , Philip Kaaret

Recently, there has been renewed interest in the Be X-ray binary (Be/XRB) SAX J1324.4-6200 because of its spatial coincidence with a gamma-ray source detected by Fermi/LAT. To explore more thoroughly its properties, new observations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-22 L. Ducci , E. Bozzo , M. Burgay , C. Malacaria , A. Ridolfi , P. Romano , M. M. Serim , S. Vercellone , A. Santangelo

Observations of high energy gamma rays recently revealed a persistent source in spatial coincidence with the binary system Eta Carinae. Since modulation of the observed gamma-ray flux on orbital time scales has not been reported so far, an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-14 K. Reitberger , O. Reimer , A. Reimer , M. Werner , K. Egberts , H. Takahashi

4FGL J1405.1-6119 is a high-mass $\gamma$-ray emitting binary that has been studied at several wavelengths. The nature of this type of binary is still under debate, with three possible scenarios usually invoked to explain the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 Enzo A. Saavedra , Federico A. Fogantini , Gastón J. Escobar , Gustavo E. Romero , Jorge A. Combi , Estefania Marcel

We report the detection of orbital modulation, a model solution, and X-ray properties of a newly discovered contact binary, 2MASS J11201034$-$2201340. We serendipitously found this X-ray point source outside the error ellipse when searching…