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We report the results of searching pulsar-like candidates from the unidentified objects in the $3^{\rm rd}$ Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT sources (3FHL). Using a machine-learning based classification scheme with a nominal accuracy of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-01 C. Y. Hui , Jongsu Lee , K. L. Li , Sangin Kim , Kwangmin Oh , Shengda Luo , Alex P. Leung , A. K. H. Kong , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

The optical spectroscopic followup of 27 sources belonging to a sample of 30 high-energy objects selected by positionally cross correlating the first Fermi/LAT Catalog and the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog is presented here. It…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is currently the most important facility for investigating the GeV $\gamma$-ray sky. With Fermi LAT more than three thousand $\gamma$-ray sources have been discovered so far. 1144 ($\sim40\%$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 G. Chiaro , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , M. Giroletti , D. J. Thompson , D. Bastieri

AIMS. We are studying an unbiased sample of 42 nearby (z < 0.2) BL Lacertae objects with a multi-wavelength approach. The results of VLBI observations were presented in the first paper of this series. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , S. Rainò

We conduct X-ray spectral fits on 184 likely counterparts to Fermi-LAT 3FGL unassociated sources. Characterization and classification of these sources allows for more complete population studies of the high-energy sky. Most of these X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Stephen Kerby , Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D. Falcone , Michael C. Stroh , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Jamie A. Kennea , Joseph Colosimo

The Fermi-LAT unassociated sources represent some of the most enigmatic gamma-ray sources in the sky. Observations with the Swift-XRT and -UVOT telescopes have identified hundreds of likely X-ray and UV/optical counterparts in the…

The Fermi-LAT has detected more than 3000 sources in the GeV $\gamma$-ray regime. The majority are extra-galactic and these sources are dominated by blazars. However, $\sim28$ per cent of the sources in Fermi 3LAC are listed as blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 L. Klindt , B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes , P. Väisänen

Active galactic Nuclei (AGNs) with their relativistic jets pointed towards the observer, form a subclass of luminous gamma-ray sources commonly known as blazars. The study of blazars is essential to improve our understanding on the AGNs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-05 Abhishek Desai , Stefano Marchesi , Meenakshi Rajagopal , Marco Ajello

In the recently published 3FGL catalogue, the Fermi/LAT collaboration reports the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission from 3034 sources obtained after four years of observations. The nature of 1010 of those sources is unknown, whereas 2023…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 J. Lefaucheur , S. Pita

Following our work presented in Dai et al. (2016), we report our detailed data analysis for another 38 Fermi gamma-ray un-associated sources. These sources are selected from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) third source catalog on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-03 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , V. Jithesh , Yi Xing

We searched for gamma-ray blazar candidates among the 382 unidentified hard X-ray sources of the 3rd Palermo BAT Catalog (3PBC) obtained from the analysis of 66 months of SWIFT-BAT survey data and listing 1586 sources. We adopted a recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Maselli , F. Massaro , G. Cusumano , R. D'Abrusco , V. La Parola , A. Paggi , A. Segreto , Howard A. Smith , G. Tosti

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released the Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources (3FHL), which contains 1556 sources detected above 10 GeV with seven years of Pass 8 data. We investigate the source count…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Hannes-S. Zechlin , Marco Ajello , Eric Charles , Fiorenza Donato

Despite the fact that blazars constitute the rarest class among active galactic nuclei (AGNs) they are the largest known population of associated $\gamma$-ray sources. Many of the $\gamma$-ray objects listed in the Fermi-Large Area…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite allows us to study the high-energy gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. However, the origin of 31% of the detected gamma-ray sources remains unknown. This population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Dieter Horns

The nature of a substantial percentage (about one fifth) of hard X-ray sources discovered with the BAT instrument onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (hereafter Swift) is unknown because of the lack of an identified longer-wavelength…

We present the results of a multi-wavelength study of blazars selected from the 5th ROMABZCAT catalog. We selected from this sample a subsample of 2435 objects having at least one counterpart in one of the three main archival X-ray…

The emission of very-high-energy photons (VHE, E>100 GeV$) in blazars is closely connected to the production of ultra-relativistic particles and the role of these gamma-ray sources as cosmic particle accelerators. This work focuses on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-04 M. Nievas Rosillo , A. Domínguez , G. Chiaro , G. La Mura , A. Brill , V. S. Paliya

A significant fraction ($\sim 30$ %) of the high-energy gamma-ray sources listed in the second $\textit{Fermi}$ LAT (2FGL) catalog are still of unknown origin, being not yet associated with counterparts at lower energies. In order to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Paggi , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , H. A. Smith , N. Masetti , M. Giroletti , G. Tosti , S. Funk

The latest INTEGRAL/IBIS all-sky survey lists 219 hard X-ray sources whose nature is still unknown. We report on our ongoing campaign aimed at identifying these high-energy emitters by exploiting the focusing capabilities of the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 R. Landi , L. Bassani , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , M. Fiocchi , A. Malizia , F. Panessa , V. Sguera , P. Ubertini

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL) lists over 5000 gamma-ray sources with statistical significance above 4$\sigma$. About 23% of the sources listed in this catalog are unidentified/unassociated gamma-ray sources…