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The Fermi-LAT DR1 and DR2 4FGL catalogues feature more than 5000 gamma-ray sources of which about one fourth are not associated with already known objects, and approximately one third are associated with blazars of uncertain nature. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Germani , G. Tosti , . Lubrano , S. Cutini , I. Mereu , A. Berretta

In the 4FGL-DR4 point-source catalog of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory (Fermi-LAT), around a third of the sources are still unidentified (unIDs). In this work, we perform a detailed study of one of…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is producing the most detailed inventory of the gamma-ray sky to date. Despite tremendous achievements approximately 25% of all Fermi extragalactic sources in the Second Fermi LAT Catalogue (2FGL) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 T. Hassan , N. Mirabal , J. L. Contreras , I. Oya

Machine learning algorithms have been used to determine probabilistic classifications of unassociated sources. Often classification into two large classes, such as Galactic and extra-galactic, is considered. However, there are many more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Dmitry Malyshev , Aakash Bhat

Among the ~2157 unassociated sources in the third data release (DR3) of the fourth Fermi catalog, ~1200 were observed with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory pointed instruments. These observations yielded 238 high S/N X-ray sources within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Amanpreet Kaur , Stephen Kerby , Abraham D. Falcone

In the fourth \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL), 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources are reported, including 3207 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 239 pulsars, 1336 unassociated sources, 92 sources with weak association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Kerui Zhu , Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected thousands of sources since its launch in 2008, with many remaining unidentified. Some of these point sources may arise from source confusion. Specifically, there could be extended sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-07 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Samuel T. Spencer , Dmitry Malyshev , Tim Unbehaun

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

We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of long-term $\gamma$-ray transient sources (1FLT). This comprises sources that were detected on monthly time intervals during the first decade of Fermi-LAT operations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 L. Baldini , J. Ballet , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , A. Berretta , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , S. Chen , G. Chiaro , D. Ciangottini , S. Ciprini , P. Cristarella Orestano , M. Crnogorcevic , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , F. Dirirsa , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , H. Fleischhack , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , S. Griffin , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , R. Imazawa , G. Jóhannesson , M. Kerr , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , H. Matake , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Nagasawa , M. Negro , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , M. Palatiello , V. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , K. Wood , M. Yassine , G. Zaharijas

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR3, for Data Release 3) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first twelve years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it contains 6658 sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-05 LAT collaboration , Soheila Abdollahi , Fabio Acero , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Bijan Berenji , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Roger D. Blandford , Elliott Bloom , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Richard J. Britto , Philippe Bruel , Toby H. Burnett , Sara Buson , Rob A. Cameron , Regina Caputo , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Daniel Castro , Sylvain Chaty , Teddy C. Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Javier Coronado-Blazquez , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Seth W. Digel , Niccolo Di Lalla , Feraol F. Dirirsa , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Stephen J. Fegan , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Henrike Fleischhack , Anna Franckowiak , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Giorgio Galanti , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Federica Giacchino , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , Thomas Glanzman , David Green , Isabelle A. Grenier , Marie-Helene Grondin , Lucas Guillemot , Sylvain Guiriec , Michael Gustafsson , Alice K. Harding , Liz Hays , John W. Hewitt , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Christopher M. Karwin , Taishu Kayanoki , Matthew T. Kerr , Michael Kuss , David Landriu , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Pasquale Lubrano , Simone Maldera , Dmitry Malyshev , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario N. Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Manuel Meyer , Peter F. Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alex A. Moiseev , Maria E. Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Eric Nuss , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , David Paneque , Zhiyuan Pei , Jeremy S. Perkins , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy A. Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Thierry Reposeur , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , David A. Smith , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Kohei Sueoka , Dan J. Suson , Hiro Tajima , Dongguen Tak , Jana B. Thayer , David J. Thompson , Diego F. Torres , Eleonora Troja , Janeth Valverde , Kent Wood , Gabrijela Zaharijas

We conduct X-ray spectral fits on 184 likely counterparts to Fermi-LAT 3FGL unassociated sources. Characterization and classification of these sources allows for more complete population studies of the high-energy sky. Most of these X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Stephen Kerby , Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D. Falcone , Michael C. Stroh , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Jamie A. Kennea , Joseph Colosimo

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50% of the sources have no clear association with a likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 David Salvetti , Graziano Chiaro , Giovanni La Mura , David J. Thompson

About a third of the $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) remain unidentified, and some of these could be exotic objects such as dark matter subhalos. We present a search for these sources using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Anja Butter , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is currently the most important facility for investigating the GeV $\gamma$-ray sky. With Fermi LAT more than three thousand $\gamma$-ray sources have been discovered so far. 1144 ($\sim40\%$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 G. Chiaro , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , M. Giroletti , D. J. Thompson , D. Bastieri

We present a catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary science instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), during the first 11 months of the science phase of the mission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT Collaboration

A significant point-like component from the small scale (or discrete) structure in the H2 interstellar gas might be present in the Fermi-LAT data, but modeling this emission relies on observations of rare gas tracers only available in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Alexander Shmakov , Mohammadamin Tavakoli , Pierre Baldi , Christopher M. Karwin , Alex Broughton , Simona Murgia

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR2, for Data Release 2) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first ten years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it uses the same analysis methods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-18 J. Ballet , T. H. Burnett , S. W. Digel , B. Lott

The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) First Source Catalog (1FGL) was released in February 2010 and the Fermi-LAT 2-Year Source Catalog (2FGL) appeared in April 2012, based on data from 24 months of operation. Since their releases, many…

Approximately one-third of the gamma-ray sources in the third Fermi-LAT catalog are unidentified or unassociated with objects at other wavelengths. Observations with Swift-XRT have yielded possible counterparts in $\sim$30% of these source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D Falcone , Michael D Stroh , Jamie A Kennea , Elizabeth C Ferrara

Over the past 16 years, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has significantly advanced our view of the GeV gamma-ray sky, yet several key questions remain - such as the composition of the isotropic gamma-ray background, the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher Eckner , Noemi Anau Montel , Florian List , Francesca Calore , Christoph Weniger