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Young energetic pulsars will likely be the largest class of Galactic sources observed by GLAST, with many hundreds detected. Many will be unknown as radio pulsars, making pulsation detection dependent on radio and/or x-ray observations or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Scott M. Ransom

The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

Pulsars are among the prime targets for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the recently launched Fermi observatory. The LAT will study the gamma-ray Universe between 20 MeV and 300 GeV with unprecedented detail. Increasing numbers of…

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

According to the second Fermi LAT Catalog (2FGL), about one third of the gamma-ray sources listed have no assigned counterparts at lower energies. Many statistical methods have been developed to find proper counterparts for these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-12 M. Nori , M. Giroletti , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , S. Funk

We report the first statistical detection of X-ray emission from cosmic web filaments in ROSAT data. We selected 15,165 filaments at 0.2<z<0.6 ranging from 30 Mpc to 100 Mpc in length, identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-12 H. Tanimura , N. Aghanim , A. Kolodzig , M. Douspis , N. Malavasi

We report on the results of a search for $\gamma$-ray pair halos with a stacking analysis of low-redshift blazars using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. For this analysis we used a number of a-priori selection criteria, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-25 Wenlei Chen , James H. Buckley , Francesc Ferrer

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been firmly established as a class of gamma-ray emitters via the detection of pulsations above 0.1 GeV from eight MSPs by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Using thirteen months of LAT data significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , Pulsar Timing Consortium

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the spectral properties of 886 pulsars across a wide frequency range from 20MHz to 343.5GHz, including a total of 86 millisecond pulsars. The majority of the pulsars exhibit power-law behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 H. W. Xu , R. S. Zhao , Erbil Gugercinoglu , H. Liu , D. Li , P. Wang , C. H. Niu , C. Miao , X. Zhu , R. W. Tian , W. L. Li , S. D. Wang , Z. F. Tu , Q. J. Zhi , S. J. Dang , L. H. Shang , S. Xiao

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

We study the $\gamma$-ray and broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) properties of a complete sample of 104 bright, radio-selected low-synchrotron peaked (LSP) blazars. Most of the sources have already been detected in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 B. Arsioli , G. Polenta

We report the analysis of the first deep optical observations of three isolated $\gamma$-ray pulsars detected by the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}: the radio-loud PSR\, J0248+6021 and PSR\, J0631+1036, and the radio-quiet PSR\,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 R. P. Mignani , N. Rea , V. Testa , M. Marelli , A. De Luca , M. Pierbattista , A. Shearer , D. F. Torres , E. De Ona Wilhelmi

The Fermi Large Area Telescope, in collaboration with several groups from the radio community, have had marvellous success at uncovering new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs). In fact, MSPs now make up a sizable fraction of the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

A year after \emph{Fermi} was launched, the number of known gamma-ray pulsars has increased dramatically. For the first time, a sizable population of pulsars has been discovered in gamma-ray data alone. For the first time, millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 L. Guillemot , Fermi LAT Collaboration

Solar flares are highly energetic events that happen in the solar atmosphere. They are mostly observed as X-ray or gamma-ray bursts located on the Sun's surface. While they are known to be sites of particle acceleration, the acceleration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Jonathan Mauro , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

Using survey data, we have re-evaluated the correlation of flat spectrum radio sources with EGRET sources in the Northern sky. A likelihood analysis incorporating the radio and X-ray properties and the Gamma-ray source localization is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Sowards-Emmerd , Roger W. Romani , Peter F. Michelson

We compare population synthesis results for inner and outer magnetosphere emission models with the various characteristics measured in the first LAT pulsar catalogue for both the radio-loud and radio-weak or radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Pierbattista , Isabelle Grenier , Alice Harding , Peter L. Gonthier

The X-ray and gamma-ray spectrum of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars is investigated in a model for acceleration and pair cascades on open field lines above the polar caps. Although these pulsars have low surface magnetic fields, their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding , Vladimir V. Usov , Alex G. Muslimov

Low-frequency radio surveys allow in-depth studies and new analyses of classes of sources previously known and characterised only in other bands. In recent years, low radio frequency observations of blazars have been available thanks to new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Daniele d'Antonio , Marcello Giroletti , Gabriele Giovannini , Alessandro Maini