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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

We address the highly debated issue of constraining the gamma-ray emission region in blazars from cross-correlation analysis using discrete correlation function between radio and gamma-ray light curves. The significance of the correlations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-16 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , E. Nieppola , M. Tornikoski , A. Lähteenmäki , E. Valtaoja

There are only a few sources that are definitely known to be gamma-ray binaries. Two of these are listed as associations in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List. We are developing novel techniques to extract high signal-to-noise light curves of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-27 Robin H. D. Corbet , Matthew Kerr

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected thousands of sources since its launch in 2008, with many remaining unidentified. Some of these point sources may arise from source confusion. Specifically, there could be extended sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-07 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alison M. W. Mitchell , Samuel T. Spencer , Dmitry Malyshev , Tim Unbehaun

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

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) 3FHL catalog is the latest catalog of >10 GeV sources and will remain an important resource for the high-energy community for the foreseeable future. Therefore, it is crucial that this catalog is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Ross Silver , Stefano Marchesi , Lea Marcotulli , Aman Kaur , Meenakshi Rajagopal , Marco Ajello

We describe an ongoing optical spectrophotometric monitoring program of a sample of Fermi/LAT bright sources showing prominent and variable {\gamma}-ray emission, with the 2.1m telescope at Observatorio Astrof\'isico Guillermo Haro (OAGH)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-19 V. Patiño-Álvarez , V. Chavushyan , J. León-Tavares , J. R. Valdés , A. Carramiñana , L. Carrasco , J. Torrealba

We present a search for intraday transient gamma-ray signals using 15.4 years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The search is based on a recently developed variable-size sliding-time-window (VSSTW) analysis and aimed at studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan

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 three years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 LAT Collaboration

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray transient monitor tracks more than 700 galactic and extragalactic sources on time scales ranging from a single Swift pointing (approximately 20 minutes) to one day. The monitored sources…

Despite the growing number of gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi-LAT, about one third of the sources in each survey remains of uncertain type. We present a new deep neural network approach for the classification of unidentified or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-28 Thorben Finke , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Fermi Large Area Telescope have prompted theoretical advances and posed big challenges in the understanding of such extreme sources, despite the fact that GRB emission above 100 MeV is a fairly rare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 Giacomo Vianello , Nicola Omodei , Fermi/LAT collaboration

We present the third Fermi Large Area Telescope source catalog (3FGL) of sources in the 100 MeV-300 GeV range. Based on the first four years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission, it is the deepest yet in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-10 LAT Collaboration

During its first six years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected >30 MeV gamma-ray emission from more than 40 solar flares, nearly a factor of 10 more than those detected by EGRET. These include detections of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Omodei , V. Petrosian , W. Liu , F. Rubio da Costa , Q. Chen , M. Pesce-Rollins , E. Grove , F. Longo

Blazars present highly variable $\gamma$-ray emission. This variability, which can range from a few minutes to several years, is also observed at other wavelengths across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We make use of the first 12…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 P. Peñil , J. Otero-Santos , M. Ajello , S. Buson , A. Domínguez , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Becerra González , J. A. Acosta-Pulido

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

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR3, for Data Release 3) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first twelve years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it contains 6658 sources. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-05 LAT collaboration , Soheila Abdollahi , Fabio Acero , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Bijan Berenji , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Roger D. Blandford , Elliott Bloom , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Richard J. Britto , Philippe Bruel , Toby H. Burnett , Sara Buson , Rob A. Cameron , Regina Caputo , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Daniel Castro , Sylvain Chaty , Teddy C. Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Javier Coronado-Blazquez , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Seth W. Digel , Niccolo Di Lalla , Feraol F. Dirirsa , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Stephen J. Fegan , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Henrike Fleischhack , Anna Franckowiak , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Giorgio Galanti , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Federica Giacchino , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , Thomas Glanzman , David Green , Isabelle A. Grenier , Marie-Helene Grondin , Lucas Guillemot , Sylvain Guiriec , Michael Gustafsson , Alice K. Harding , Liz Hays , John W. Hewitt , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Christopher M. Karwin , Taishu Kayanoki , Matthew T. Kerr , Michael Kuss , David Landriu , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Pasquale Lubrano , Simone Maldera , Dmitry Malyshev , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario N. Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Manuel Meyer , Peter F. Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alex A. Moiseev , Maria E. Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Eric Nuss , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , David Paneque , Zhiyuan Pei , Jeremy S. Perkins , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy A. Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Thierry Reposeur , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , David A. Smith , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Kohei Sueoka , Dan J. Suson , Hiro Tajima , Dongguen Tak , Jana B. Thayer , David J. Thompson , Diego F. Torres , Eleonora Troja , Janeth Valverde , Kent Wood , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allows detection of thousands of new gamma-ray sources and detailed characterization of the spectra and variability of bright sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Matthew Kerr

Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allowed us to peek into the extremely energetic side of the Universe with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. The tools available for analyzing Fermi-LAT data are the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-24 Raniere de Menezes

We search for the long-term variability of the \gamma-ray sky in the energy range E > 1 GeV with 168 weeks of Fermi-LAT data. We perform a full sky blind search for regions with variable flux looking for deviations from uniformity. We bin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov