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The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has observed more than a hundred of gamma-ray pulsars, about one third of which are radio-quiet, i.e. not detected at radio frequencies. The most of radio-loud pulsars are detected by Fermi LAT by using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-27 G. I. Rubtsov , E. V. Sokolova

Gamma-ray emission provides constraints on the non-thermal radiation processes at play in astrophysical particle accelerators. This allows both the nature of accelerated particles and the maximum energy that they can reach to be determined.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-06 Pauline Chambery , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Armelle Jardin-Blicq , Atreyee Sinha , J. Eagle

The high sensitivity of the Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) offers the first opportunity to study faint and extended GeV sources such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). After one year of observation the LAT detected and identified three pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-28 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , Pulsar Timing Consortium

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seems to link them to Soft Gamma Repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Giacomo Principe , Nicola Omodei , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Francesco Longo

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

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed almost directly at Earth. Blazars are characterized by strong, apparently stochastic flux variability at virtually all observed wavelengths and timescales, from minutes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Aryeh Brill

The second catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in two years of scientific operation is presented. The Second LAT AGN Catalog (2LAC) includes 1017 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

We report on a search for steep spectrum radio sources within the 95% confidence error ellipses of the Fermi unassociated sources from the Large Array Telescope (LAT). Using existing catalogs and the newly released GMRT all-sky survey at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 D. A. Frail , K. P. Mooley , P. Jagannathan , H. T. Intema

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) sources feature supermassive black holes that launch relativistic plasma jets. They are key $\gamma$-ray sources providing a unique laboratory for studying extreme particle acceleration and plasma physics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Luana Passos-Reis , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Tarek Hassan , Santiago Pita , Alberto Domínguez

The automatic classification of X-ray detections is a necessary step in extracting astrophysical information from compiled catalogs of astrophysical sources. Classification is useful for the study of individual objects, statistics for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Víctor Samuel Pérez-Díaz , Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza , Alexander Caicedo , Raffaele D'Abrusco

Excess of gamma rays with a spherical morphology around the Galactic center (GC) observed in the Fermi large area telescope (LAT) data is one of the most intriguing features in the gamma-ray sky. The excess has been interpreted by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Dmitry V. Malyshev

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its improved sensitivity relative to previous generation gamma-ray telescopes, is significantly increasing the number of known gamma-ray sources in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 P. M. Saz Parkinson , M. Dormody , M. Ziegler

Numerical simulations suggest that dark matter halos surrounding galaxies host numerous small subhalos, which might be detectable by the Fermi-LAT. In this work, we revisit the search for gamma-ray subhalo candidates using the latest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Ji-Gui Cheng , Le Zou

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog (4FGL) contains 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources detected at high significance, but 26% of them still lack associations at other wavelengths. The SPT-SZ survey, conducted between 2008 and 2011…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Lizhong Zhang , Joaquin D. Vieira , Marco Ajello , Matthew A. Malkan , Melanie A. Archipley , Joseph Capota , Allen Foster , Greg Madejski

The first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalogue of sources (1FHL) emitting at high energies (above 10 GeV) reports the details of 514 objects detected in the first three years of the Fermi mission. Of these, 71 were reported as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Landi , L. Bassani , J. B. Stephen , N. Masetti , A. Malizia , P. Ubertini

This paper explores the application of machine learning methods for classifying astronomical sources using photometric data, including normal and emission line galaxies (ELGs; starforming, starburst, AGN, broad line), quasars, and stars. We…

We describe a comprehensive pulsar monitoring campaign for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} (formerly GLAST). The detection and study of pulsars in gamma rays give insights into the populations of…

The field of gamma ray astronomy relies heavily on the statistical analysis of data. Because of the paucity of data, and the often large errors associated with detecting gamma rays, analysis and interpretation of the data require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Tompkins

The sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allows detection of thousands of new gamma-ray sources and detailed characterization of the spectra and variability of bright sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Matthew Kerr

Extensive astronomical surveys, like those conducted with the {\em Chandra} X-ray Observatory, detect hundreds of thousands of unidentified cosmic sources. Machine learning (ML) methods offer an efficient, probabilistic approach to classify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-09 Shivam Kumaran , Samir Mandal , Sudip Bhattacharyya