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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

Approximately one-third of existing $\gamma$-ray sources identified by the $\textit{Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope}$ are considered to be unassociated, with no known counterpart at other frequencies/wavelengths. These sources have been the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 S. Bruzewski , F. K. Schinzel , G. B. Taylor

The third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the $\gamma$-ray emission of those objects is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 F. K. Schinzel , L. Petrov , G. B. Taylor , P. G. Edwards

Machine learning based approaches are emerging as very powerful tools for many applications including source classification in astrophysics research due to the availability of huge high quality data from different surveys in observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 A. Tolamatti , K. K. Singh , K. K. Yadav

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

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…

We discuss a new method for unveiling the possible blazar AGN nature among the numerous population of Unassociated Gamma-ray sources (UGS) in the Fermi catalogues. Our tool relies on positional correspondence of the Fermi object with X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Simona Paiano , Alberto Franceschini , Antonio Stamerra

We reconstruct the extra-galactic gamma-ray source-count distribution, or $dN/dS$, of resolved and unresolved sources by adopting machine learning techniques. Specifically, we train a convolutional neural network on synthetic 2-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-16 Aurelio Amerio , Alessandro Cuoco , Nicolao Fornengo

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

We report on the results of deep X-ray follow-up observations of four unidentified Fermi/LAT gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes using Suzaku. The studied objects were detected with high significance during the first 3 months of…

At GeV energies, the sky is dominated by the interstellar emission from the Galaxy. With limited statistics and spatial resolution, accurately separating point sources is therefore challenging. Here we present the first application of deep…

Searching for as yet undetected gamma-ray sources is a major target of the Fermi LAT Collaboration. We present an algorithm capable of identifying such type of sources by non-parametrically clustering the directions of arrival of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Anna Montin , Alessandra R. Brazzale , Giovanna Menardi

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 search for dark matter (DM) annihilating subhalos of the Milky Way halo among the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unassociated sources. We construct, for the first time, a statistical model of the unassociated sources at latitudes above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-20 Aurelio Amerio , Dmitry Malyshev , Bryan Zaldivar , Viviana Gammaldi , Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde

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 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

The high-frequency radio sky, like the gamma-ray sky surveyed by the Fermi satellite, is dominated by flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects at bright flux levels. To investigate the relationship between radio and gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Elizabeth K. Mahony , Elaine M. Sadler , Tara Murphy , Ronald D. Ekers , Philip G. Edwards , Marcella Massardi

In the current era of large surveys and massive data sets, autoclassification of astrophysical sources using intelligent algorithms is becoming increasingly important. In this paper we present the catalog of variable sources in the Third…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-15 Sean A. Farrell , Tara Murphy , Kitty K. Lo

Excess of gamma rays 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 spherical morphology and the spectral energy distribution with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 Dmitry V. Malyshev

A significant fraction of all $\gamma$-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope aboard the \fer\ satellite is still lacking a low-energy counterpart. In addition, there is still a large population of $\gamma$-ray sources with…