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The classifications of Fermi-LAT unassociated sources are studied using multiple machine learning (ML) methods. The update data from 4FGL-DR3 are divided into high Galactic latitude (HGL, Galactic latitude $|b|>10^\circ$) and low Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 K. R. Zhu , J. M. Chen , Y. G. Zheng , L. Zhang

We apply a number of statistical and machine learning techniques to classify and rank gamma-ray sources from the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Source Catalog (3FGL), according to their likelihood of falling into the two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson , H. Xu , P. L. H. Yu , D. Salvetti , M. Marelli , A. D. Falcone

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

Despite the growing number of gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi-LAT, about one third of the sources in each survey remains of uncertain type. We present a new deep neural network approach for the classification of unidentified or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi

The Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL) provided spatial, spectral, and temporal properties for a large number of gamma-ray sources using a uniform analysis method. After correlating with the most-complete catalogs of…

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

About one third of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources are unassociated. We perform multi-class classification of Fermi-LAT sources using machine learning with the goal of probabilistic classification of the unassociated sources. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Dmitry V. Malyshev

We have investigated a number of factors that can have significant impacts on the classification performance of $\gamma$-ray sources detected by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) with machine learning techniques. We show that a framework of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Shengda Luo , Alex P. Leung , C. Y. Hui , K. L. Li

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

Unassociated Fermi-LAT sources provide a population with discovery potential. We discuss efforts to find new source associations for this population, and summarize the successes to date. We discuss how the measured gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-13 Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Roopesh Ojha , Maria Elena Monzani , Nicola Omodei

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been continuously providing good quality survey data of the entire sky in the high energy range from 30 MeV to 500 GeV and above since August 2008. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-13 A. Pathania , K. K. Singh , S. K. Singh , A. Tolamatti , B. B. Singh , K. K. Yadav

The Fermi-LAT unassociated sources represent some of the most enigmatic gamma-ray sources in the sky. Observations with the Swift-XRT and -UVOT telescopes have identified hundreds of likely X-ray and UV/optical counterparts in the…

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest all-sky survey available in the gamma-ray band. It contains 1873 sources, of which 576 remain unassociated. Machine-learning algorithms can be trained on the gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-29 M. Doert , M. Errando

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 this work, Machine Learning (ML) methods are used to efficiently identify the unassociated sources and the Blazar Candidate of Uncertain types (BCUs) in the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalog (3FGL). The aims are twofold: 1) to distinguish…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-08 Hubing Xiao , Haitao Cao , Junhui Fan , Denise Costantin , Gaoyong Luo , Zhiyuan Pei

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest survey of the gamma-ray sky ever compiled, containing 1873 sources that constitute a very complete sample down to an energy flux of about 10^(-11) erg cm^(-2) s^(-1). While…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 M. Doert , M. Errando

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti

A large fraction of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources in the fourth Fermi-LAT 14 yr catalog (4FGL) still remain unidentified (unIDed). We continued to improve our machine-learning pipeline and used it to classify 1206 X-ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev

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

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool in the field of gamma-ray astrophysics. The algorithms can distinguish between different source types, such as blazars and pulsars, and help uncover new insights into the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-05 Gopal Bhatta , Sarvesh Gharat , Abhimanyu Borthakur , Aman Kumar

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
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