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Dusty stellar point sources are a significant stage in stellar evolution and contribute to the metal enrichment of galaxies. These objects can be classified using photometric and spectroscopic observations with color-magnitude diagrams…

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

Measuring distances of cosmological sources such as galaxies, stars and quasars plays an increasingly critical role in modern cosmology. Obtaining the optical spectrum and consequently calculating the redshift as a distance indicator could…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-13 Aidin Momtaz , Mohammad Hossein Salimi , Soroush Shakeri

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

Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Crispin Logan , Sotiria Fotopoulou

Extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) are important tracers of galaxy formation and evolution. Obtaining GC catalogues from photometric data involves several steps which will likely become too time-consuming to perform on the large data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Dominik Dold , Katja Fahrion

The faint radio-source population includes sources dominated both by star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN), encoding the evolution of activity in the Universe. To investigate its nature, we probabilistically classified 4,471 radio…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 LAT Collaboration

The Fermi fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) data release 3 (4LAC-DR3) contains 3407 AGNs, out of which 755 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 1379 are BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs), 1208 are blazars of unknown (BCUs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Aditi Agarwal

The Fermi gamma-ray space telescope has revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray sky and the high energy processes in the Universe. While the number of known gamma-ray emitters has increased by orders of magnitude since the launch of Fermi,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-01 I. Liodakis , D. Blinov

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrinsic spectral and flux properties of the source sample. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 LAT Collaboration

Future astrophysical surveys such as J-PAS will produce very large datasets, which will require the deployment of accurate and efficient Machine Learning (ML) methods. In this work, we analyze the miniJPAS survey, which observed about 1…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected more than 5000 gamma-ray sources in its first 8 years of operation. More than 3000 of them are blazars. About 60 per cent of the Fermi-LAT blazars are classified as BL Lacertae objects (BL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-22 Miloš Kovačević , Graziano Chiaro , Sara Cutini , Gino Tosti

We discuss the time-series behavior of 8 extragalactic 3FGL sources away from the Galactic plane (i.e., $\mid b\mid \geq 10^{\circ}$) whose uncertainty ellipse contains a single X-ray and one radio source. The analysis was done using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 P. Nkundabakura , J. D. Kamanzi , J. D. Mbarubucyeye , T. Mutabazi

The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected between 100 MeV and 300 GeV with a Test Statistic (TS) greater than 25,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , W. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , J. Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. Blandford , E. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. Brandt , J. Bregeon , R. Britto , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. Caliandro , R. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. Caraveo , J. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. Cheung , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , L. Cominsky , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , R. D'Abrusco , F. D'Ammando , A. Angelis , R. Desiante , S. Digel , L. Venere , P. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. Fegan , E. Ferrara , J. Finke , W. Focke , A. Franckowiak , L. Fuhrmann , A. Furniss , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. Grenier , J. Grove , S. Guiriec , J. W. Hewitt , A. Hill , D. Horan , G. J'ohannesson , A. Johnson , W. Johnson , J. Kataoka , M. Kuss , G. Mura , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , C. Leto , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. Madejski , M. Mayer , M. Mazziotta , J. McEnery , P. Michelson , T. Mizuno , A. Moiseev , M. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , R. Ojha , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , A. Paggi , D. Paneque , J. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. Porter , S. Rain`o , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , R. Romani , D. Salvetti , M. Schaal , F. Schinzel , A. Schulz , C. Sgr`o , E. Siskind , K. Sokolovsky , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Stawarz , D. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Takahashi , Y. Tanaka , J. Thayer , J. Thayer , L. Tibaldo , D. Torres , E. Torresi , G. Tosti , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , G. Vianello , B. Winer , K. Wood , S. Zimmer

In this work, we make use of a supervised machine learning algorithm based on Logistic Regression (LR) to select TeV blazar candidates from the 4FGL-DR2 / 4LAC-DR2, 3FHL, 3HSP, and 2BIGB catalogs. LR constructs a hyperplane based on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 J. T. Zhu , C. Lin , H. B. Xiao , J. H. Fan , D. Bastieri , G. G. Wang

There are a total of 1451 gamma-ray emitting objects in the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalogue. The point source location accuracy of typically a few arcminutes has allowed the counterparts for many of these sources to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 J. B. Stephen , L. Bassani , R. Landi , A. Malizia , V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , N. Masetti

The field of radio astronomy is witnessing a boom in the amount of data produced per day due to newly commissioned radio telescopes. One of the most crucial problems in this field is the automatic classification of extragalactic radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-04 Abdollah Masoud Darya , Ilias Fernini , Marley Vellasco , Abir Hussain

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first 3 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. This catalog complements the Second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 David Paneque , Jean Ballet , Toby Burnett , Seth Digel , Pascal Fortin , Juergen Knoedlseder

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has detected more than 7,000 gamma-ray sources, a significant fraction of which are identified as blazars, while a comparable number remain classified as blazars of uncertain type (BCUs) or are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Saqlain Afroz , Titir Mukherjee , Raj Prince