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The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by blazars and their study plays an important role in understanding jet physics, cosmic evolution history and origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays. In this work, we study a large sample of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-23 Muhammad Shahzad Anjum , Liang Chen , Minfeng Gu

A systematic search for cyclical sources of gamma-ray emission on the period range from days to years in the Fermi-LAT sky is performed. Looking for cyclical emission, the sky is binned into equal-area pixels and the generalised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-20 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan

Fermi has provided the largest sample of {\gamma}-ray selected blazars to date. In this work we use a complete sample of FSRQs detected during the first year of operation to determine the luminosity function (LF) and its evolution with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ajello , M. S. Shaw , R. W. Romani , C. D. Dermer , L. Costamante , O. G. King , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , J. L. Richards , M. Stevenson

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly used across astrophysics, enabled by the growing availability of data and improved acquisition methods. These approaches now support tasks from redshift estimation to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 E. Oukacha , Y. Becherini

Blazars are an extreme subclass of active galactic nuclei. Their rapid variability, luminous brightness, superluminal motion, and high and variable polarization are probably due to a beaming effect. However, this beaming factor (or Doppler…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-21 J. H. Fan , J. H. Yang , H. B. Xiao , C. Lin , D. Constantin , G. Y. Luo , Z. Y. Pei , J. M. Hao , Y. W. Mao

We present a spectral analysis for a sample of redshift known GRBs observed with {\em Fermi}/GBM. Together with the results derived from our systematical spectral energy distribution modeling with the leptonic models for a {\em Fermi}/LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Fen Lyu , En-Wei Liang , Yun-Feng Liang , Xue-Feng Wu , Jin Zhang , Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Jing Lu , Bing Zhang

(abridged) A detailed comparison is performed of the LFs compiled at infrared, radio and optical wavelengths and converted into XLFs using available relations with the XLF directly estimated in the 0.5--2 keV energy band from X-ray surveys…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piero Ranalli , Andrea Comastri , Giancarlo Setti

We report the detection of a new gamma-ray source in the Fermi-LAT sky using a source detection tool based on the Minimal Spanning Tree algorithm. The source, not reported in previous LAT catalogues but very recently observed in the X-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 E. Bernieri , R. Campana , E. Massaro , A. Paggi , A. Tramacere

The spectral data on the diffuse Galactic gamma-rays, at medium and high latitudes (|b| > 10) and energies of 1-100 GeV, recently published by the Fermi Collaboration are used to produce a novel study on the gamma-ray emissivity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-28 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

We derive the most up-to-date Swift-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) blazar luminosity function in the 14-195 keV range, making use of a clean sample of 118 blazars detected in the BAT 105-month survey catalog, with newly obtained redshifts from…

Using a significantly enlarged \textit{Fermi}-LAT BL Lac objects (BL Lacs) sample, we construct the gamma-ray luminosity function (GLF) of BL Lacs, by the joint use of the space density distribution and source counts distribution. We use…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 Yankun Qu , Houdun Zeng , Dahai Yan

Using 3.7 years of \Fermi-LAT data, we examine the diffuse 80-200 GeV emission in the inner Galaxy and find a resolved gamma-ray feature at $\sim 110-140$ GeV. We model the spatial distribution of this emission with a $\sim3\degree$ FWHM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Meng Su , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

Blazars are jet-dominated extragalactic objects characterized by the emission of strongly variable non-thermal radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore, the study of blazars (and in general of radio loud AGN) through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Monte , S. Raino , F. Gargano , S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , J. Leon Tavares , G. Polenta

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

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

We review extragalactic $\gamma$-ray propagation models with emphasis on the electromagnetic (EM) cascade process in the magnetized expanding Universe. We consider cascades initiated by primary protons of ultra-high energy accelerated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 T. A. Dzhatdoev , E. V. Khalikov , E. I. Podlesnyi , A. V. Telegina

We present models to predict high frequency counts of extragalactic radio sources using physically grounded recipes to describe the complex spectral behaviour of blazars, that dominate the mm-wave counts at bright flux densities. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Tucci , L. Toffolatti , G. De Zotti , E. Martinez-Gonzalez

We perform a search for sources of gamma-rays with energies E>100 GeV at low Galactic latitudes |b|<10 deg using the data of Fermi telescope. To separate compact gamma-ray sources from the diffuse emission from the Galaxy, we use the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

We calculate the intergalactic photon density as a function of both energy and redshift for 0 < z < 6 for photon energies from .003 eV to the Lyman limit cutoff at 13.6 eV in a Lambda-CDM universe with $\Omega_{\Lambda} = 0.7$ and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 F. W. Stecker , M. A. Malkan , S. T. Scully

AIMS. We are studying an unbiased sample of 42 nearby (z < 0.2) BL Lacertae objects with a multi-wavelength approach. The results of VLBI observations were presented in the first paper of this series. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , S. Rainò