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Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) having relativistic jets aligned within a few degrees of our line-of-sight and form the majority of the AGN detected in the TeV regime. The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Atreya Acharyya , Alberto C. Sadun

The first three months of sky-survey operation with the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) Large Area Telescope (LAT) reveals 132 bright sources at |b|>10 deg with test statistic greater than 100 (corresponding to about 10 sigma). Two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-30 A. A. Abdo

Based on the classical unification, blazars, namely BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), are believed to correspond with radio galaxies when observed at small jet viewing angles. In this paper, we aim to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 Xu-Hong Ye , Ranieri D. Baldi , Wen-Xin Yang , Jing-Tian Zhu , Denis Bastieri , Rumen S. Bachev , Anton A. Strigachev , Jun-Hui Fan

We present an analysis of the cross-correlation between optical brightness and polarization degree in different types of blazars. The aim is to identify objects with simultaneous and consistent changes in characteristics and to determine if…

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly used across astrophysics, enabled by the growing availability of data and improved acquisition methods. These approaches now support tasks from redshift estimation to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 E. Oukacha , Y. Becherini

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

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) provides long term systematic monitoring observations of the gamma-ray emission from blazars. The variability properties and the correlation with other wavelength bands are important clues for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Larsson

Star-forming galaxies are predicted to contribute considerably to the cosmic gamma-ray background (CGB) as they are confirmed gamma-ray emitters and are the most numerous population of gamma-ray sources, although individually faint. Even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-18 Shin'ichiro Ando , Vasiliki Pavlidou

The impact of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on blazar research is reviewed. This includes a brief description of the Fermi Large Area Telescope, a summary of the various classes of extragalactic sources found in the First Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Charles D. Dermer

We present long term optical and near infrared flux variability analysis of 37 blazars detected in the $\gamma$-ray band by the {\it Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope}. Among them, 30 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 7 are BL Lac…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 P. Z. Safna , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit , Blesson Mathew

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

The origin of the Fermi bubbles and the microwave haze is yet to be determined. To disentangle different models requires detailed comparisons between theoretical predictions and multi-wavelength observations. Our previous simulations have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-30 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski , E. Zweibel

Analysis is presented on 15 months of data taken with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for 11 non-blazar AGNs, including 7 FRI radio galaxies and 4 FRII radio sources consisting of 2 FRII radio galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

The extragalactic $\gamma$-rays sky observed by Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is dominated by blazars. In the fourth release of the Fermi-LAT Point Source Catalog (4FGL), are sources showing a multifrequency behavior similar to that of…

This contribution illustrates the study of galaxy clusters as astrophysical laboratories as well as probes for the large-scale structure of the Universe. Using the REFLEX Cluster Survey, the measurement of the statistics of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hans Boehringer

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

We present the results of a search for high-energy gamma-ray emission from a large sample of galaxy clusters sharing the properties of three existing Fermi-LAT detections (in Perseus, Virgo and Abell 3392), namely a powerful radio source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 K. L. Dutson , R. J. White , A. C. Edge , J. A. Hinton , M. T. Hogan

The Fermi/LAT telescope is an efficient blazar-detector in the MeV/GeV range. More than 1100 (900) blazars detected above 100 MeV (10 GeV) are clearly associated to BL Lacertae or Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar objects in the Fermi/LAT 3FGL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-02 Julien Lefaucheur , Catherine Boisson , Paolo Goldoni , Santiago Pita

Galaxy clusters are among the most massive gravitationally bound systems in the Universe and are considered major reservoirs of high-energy cosmic rays, yet no conclusive $\gamma$-ray detection from them has been achieved. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Gajanan D Harale , Surajit Paul

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