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We report the Fermi-LAT discovery of high-energy (MeV/GeV) gamma-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at a source significance of over 10 sigma in ten-months of all-sky survey data. Following the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , D. E. Harris , F. Massaro , L. Stawarz

This is the first report of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observations of the quasar 3C 454.3, which has been undergoing pronounced long-term outbursts since 2000. The data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT), covering 2008 July 7 -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

Evidence of efficient acceleration of cosmic rays in massive young stellar objects has been recently reported. Among these massive protostars, S255 NIRS 3 for which extreme flaring events associated with radio jets have been detected, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Emma de Oña Wilhelmi , Rubén López-Coto , Yang Su

The large-scale diffuse $\gamma-$ray flux observed by Fermi-LAT in the 1-100 GeV energy range, parameterized as $\propto E^{-\Gamma}$, has a spectral index $\Gamma$ that depends on the distance from the Galactic center. This feature, if…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Vittoria Vecchiotti , Giulia Pagliaroli , Francesco Lorenzo Villante

Star-forming and starburst galaxies (SFGs and SBGs) are powerful emitters of non-thermal $\gamma$-rays and neutrinos, due to their intense phases of star-formation activity, which should confine high-energy Cosmic-Rays (CRs) inside their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-30 Antonio Ambrosone , Marco Chianese , Antonio Marinelli

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

We report the discovery of extended gamma-ray emission measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the region of the supernova remnant (SNR) HB3 (G132.7+1.3) and the W3 HII complex adjacent to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 H. Katagiri , K. Yoshida , J. Ballet , M. H. Grondin , Y. Hanabata , J. W. Hewitt , H. Kubo , M. Lemoine-Goumard

The propagation of particles accelerated at supernova remnant shocks and escaping the parent remnants is likely to proceed in a strongly non-linear regime, due to the efficient self-generation of Alfv\'en waves excited through streaming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 M. D'Angelo , G. Morlino , E. Amato , P. Blasi

We report the discovery of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma-ray emission from NGC 1275, a giant elliptical galaxy lying at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, based on observations made with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , Y. A. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. B. Pushkarev

Supernovae (SNe) exploding in a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) are predicted to accelerate cosmic rays in collisionless shocks and emit GeV gamma rays and TeV neutrinos on a time scale of several months. Here we summarize the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 A. Franckowiak , K. Murase , E. O. Ofek

Context: The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is to date the only normal external galaxy that has been detected in high-energy gamma rays. High-energy gamma rays trace particle acceleration processes and gamma-ray observations allow the nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 LAT collaboration , A. A. Abdo

NGC 2071 is a star-forming region that overlaps with three $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Fermi Space Telescope. We propose that strong flare activity in T Tauri stars could produce $\gamma$-ray emission in a way that makes them a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 A. Filócomo , J. F. Albacete Colombo , E. Mestre , L. J. Pellizza , J. A. Combi

More than 90% of the Galactic gas-related gamma-ray emissivity above 1 GeV is attributed to the decay of neutral pions formed in collisions between cosmic rays and interstellar matter, with lepton-induced processes becoming increasingly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 C. D. Dermer , A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , L. Tibaldo

We report an analysis of the interstellar gamma-ray emission from the Chamaeleon, R Coronae Australis (R CrA), and Cepheus and Polaris flare regions with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. They are among the nearest molecular cloud complexes,…

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

The Fermi-LAT \gamma-ray data have been used to study the morphological and spectral features of the so-called GeV excess - a diffuse radiation component recently discovered towards the Galactic centre. We used the likelihood method to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Rui-zhi Yang , Felix Aharonian

A fundamental problem of cosmic ray (CR) physics is the determination of the average properties of Galactic CRs outside the Solar system. Starting from COS-B data in the 1980's, gamma-ray observations of molecular clouds in the Gould Belt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko

Galaxy clusters could produce gamma-rays from inverse Compton scattering of cosmic ray electrons or hadronic interactions of cosmic ray protons with the intracluster medium. It is still an open question on whether gamma-ray emission ($>$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-12 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

The interstellar medium of galaxies, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, provides a pivotal perspective for understanding the physical and chemical properties of star formation, galactic evolution, and their associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

Star-forming and starburst galaxies, which are well-known cosmic-rays reservoirs, are expected to emit gamma-rays and neutrinos predominantly via hadronic collisions. In this Letter, we analyze the 10-year Fermi-LAT spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-07 Antonio Ambrosone , Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Antonio Marinelli , Gennaro Miele

2 years worth of archival FERMI-LAT data was used to search for the gamma-ray emission from the Andromeda galaxy. The data show no noticeable elliptical image. Subsequent on-off source aperture photometry analysis using a CO image template…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Ögelman , N. Aksaker , S. Anılan , H. Dereli , N. Emrahoğlu , I. Yegingil