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We have identified an optical/X-ray binary with orbital period P_b=5.47h as the likely counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J2039.6-5620. GROND, SOAR and DES observations provide an accurate orbital period and allow us to compare with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Roger W. Romani

We report on a discovery of a promising candidate as a black widow millisecond pulsar binary, 4FGL J0336.0+7502, which shows many pulsar-like properties in the 4FGL-DR2 catalog. Within the 95% error region of the LAT source, we identified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kwan-Lok Li , Y. X. Jane Yap , Chung Yue Hui , Albert K. H. Kong

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

4FGL J1015.5-6030 is an unidentified Fermi-LAT source hosting a bright, extended X-ray source whose X-ray spectrum is consistent with that of a young pulsar, yet no pulsations have been found. Here we report on XMM-Newton timing and Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , George Younes , George G. Pavlov , Igor Volkov

We present an analysis of high energy (HE; 0.1-300 GeV) gamma-ray observations of 1FGL J1227.9-4852 with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, follow-up radio observations with the Australia Telescope Compact Array, Giant Metrewave Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-27 A. B. Hill , A. Szostek , S. Corbel , F. Camilo , R. H. D. Corbet , R. Dubois , G. Dubus , P. G. Edwards , E. C. Ferrara , M. Kerr , E. Koerding , D. Kozieł , Ł. Stawarz

We present the discovery of a variable optical counterpart to the unidentified gamma-ray source 3FGL J0212.1+5320, and argue this is a new compact binary millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate. We show 3FGL J0212.1+5320 hosts a semi-detached…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 Manuel Linares , Paulo Miles-Páez , Pablo Rodríguez-Gil , Tariq Shahbaz , Jorge Casares , Cecilia Fariña , Raine Karjalainen

IGR~J18245--2452/PSR J1824--2452I is one of the rare transitional accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars, showing direct evidence of switches between states of rotation powered radio pulsations and accretion powered X-ray pulsations, dubbed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 V. De Falco , L. Kuiper , E. Bozzo , C. Ferrigno , J. Poutanen , L. Stella , M. Falanga

Among the different types of sources shining in the high energy sky, gamma-ray binaries are rapidly becoming the subject of major interest. In fact, in the last few years a number of High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) have been firmly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 V. Sguera

The energetic pulsar, PSR J2032+4127, has been recently discovered in the direction of the unidentified HEGRA TeV gamma-ray source (TeV J2032+4130). It is proposed that this pulsar forms a binary system with the Be type star, MT91 213,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Wlodek Bednarek , Piotr Banasinski , Julian Sitarek

We report the detection of a possible gamma-ray counterpart of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658. The analysis of ~6 years of data from the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi-LAT) within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 E. de Ona Wilhelmi , A. Papitto , J. Li , N. Rea , D. F. Torres , L. Burderi , T. Di Salvo , R. Iaria , A. Riggio , A. Sanna

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are prolific GeV $\gamma\text{-ray}$ emitters, and nearly 80\% of Fermi-LAT MSPs reside in compact binaries. We demonstrate that the companions in these compact MSPs binaries are also 511 keV annihilation line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zachary Metzler , Zorawar Wadiasingh

We report the results from our detailed analysis of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data for the pulsar binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883. During the GeV flares that occurred when the pulsar was in the periastron passages, we have detected a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , Jumpei Takata

XMMSL1 J171900.4-353217 is a very-faint X-ray transient that was discovered in 2010 March when it exhibited an outburst. We report on 7 observations, obtained with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) aboard the Neil Gehrels {\it{Swift}} Observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 O. Ahmed , N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands , M. Armas Padilla

Using the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope operating at 1.36 GHz, we have performed a targeted radio pulsar survey of 289 unassociated gamma-ray sources discovered by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite and published…

We report on the identification of the gamma-ray source 0FGL J20001.0+4352 listed in the Fermi bright source catalogue. This object, which has an observed 1-100 GeV flux of (7.8 +/- 1.2) x 10^{-9} ph cm^{-2} s^{-1} and is located close to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Bassani , R. Landi , N. Masetti , P. Parisi , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini

Using the Parkes radio telescope we have carried out deep observations of eleven unassociated gamma-ray sources. Periodicity searches of these data have discovered two millisecond pulsars, PSR J1103-5403 (1FGL J1103.9-5355) and PSR…

We searched for radio pulsars in 25 of the non-variable, unassociated sources in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List with the Green Bank Telescope at 820 MHz. We report the discovery of three radio and gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from…

Millisecond radio pulsars acquire their rapid rotation rates through mass and angular momentum transfer in a low-mass X-ray binary system. Recent studies of PSR J1824-2452I and PSR J1023+0038 have observationally demonstrated this link, and…

The microquasar V404 Cygni (also known as GS 2023+338) was previously reported to have weak GeV gamma-ray emission in sub-day time periods during its 2015 outburst. In order to provide more detailed information at the high energy range for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

The Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.6$-$5618 contains a periodic optical and X-ray source that was predicted to be a "redback" millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary system. However, the conclusive identification required…