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We utilized a sample from the Fermi-LAT 14-year Source Catalog by adjusting the flux detection threshold, enabling us to derive the intrinsic source count distribution $dN/dF_{25}$ of extragalactic blazars using nonparametric, unbinned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 Xuhang Yin , Houdun Zeng

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

Excess of gamma rays around the Galactic center (GC) observed in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data is one of the most intriguing features in the gamma-ray sky. The spherical morphology and the spectral energy distribution with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 Dmitry V. Malyshev

Classification of sources is one of the most important tasks in astronomy. Sources detected in one wavelength band, for example using gamma rays, may have several possible associations in other wavebands, or there may be no plausible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-19 Aakash Bhat , Dmitry Malyshev

A large fraction of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources in the fourth Fermi-LAT 14 yr catalog (4FGL) still remain unidentified (unIDed). We continued to improve our machine-learning pipeline and used it to classify 1206 X-ray sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev

We propose a machine-learning-based technique to determine the number density of radio sources as a function of their flux density, for use in next-generation radio surveys. The method uses a convolutional neural network trained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Elisa Todarello , Andre Scaffidi , Marco Regis , Marco Taoso

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

Gamma-ray searches for new physics such as dark matter are often driven by investigating the composition of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Classic approaches to EGB decomposition manifest in resolving individual point sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

One of the most prominent features of the $\gamma$-ray sky is the emission from our own Galaxy. The Galactic plane has been observed by Fermi-LAT in GeV and H.E.S.S. in TeV light. Fermi has modeled the Galactic emission as the sum of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-09 Ellis Owen , Christoph Deil , Axel Donath , Régis Terrier

The increasing volume of gamma-ray data demands new analysis approaches that can handle large-scale datasets while providing robustness for source detection. We present a Deep Learning (DL) based pipeline for detection, localization, and…

We apply a number of statistical and machine learning techniques to classify and rank gamma-ray sources from the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Source Catalog (3FGL), according to their likelihood of falling into the two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson , H. Xu , P. L. H. Yu , D. Salvetti , M. Marelli , A. D. Falcone

Searching for as yet undetected gamma-ray sources is a major target of the Fermi LAT Collaboration. We present an algorithm capable of identifying such type of sources by non-parametrically clustering the directions of arrival of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Anna Montin , Alessandra R. Brazzale , Giovanna Menardi

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Based on the spatial overlap of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-19 Fabio Acero , Markus Ackermann , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Guido Barbiellini , Denis Bastieri , Ronaldo Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , Roger Blandford , E. D. Bloom , Raffaella Bonino , Eugenio Bottacini , J. Bregeon , Philippe Bruel , Rolf Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , Rob A. Cameron , R Caputo , Micaela Caragiulo , Patrizia A. Caraveo , Jean Marc Casandjian , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Claudia Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , Stefano Ciprini , R. Claus , J. M. Cohen , Johann Cohen-Tanugi , L. R. Cominsky , B. Condon , Jan Conrad , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. Angelis , F. Palma , Rachele Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Venere , Persis S Drell , Alex Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , E. C. Ferrara , Anna Franckowiak , Prof. Yasushi Fukazawa , Prof. Stefan Funk , P. Fusco , Fabio Gargano , Dario Gasparrini , Nicola Giglietto , Paolo Giommi , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , Tom Glanzman , Gary Godfrey , G A. Gomez-Vargas , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , L. Guillemot , Sylvain Guiriec , M Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , A. K. Harding , M. Hayashida , Elizabeth Hays , J. W. Hewitt , A. B. Hill , Deirdre Horan , X. Hou , Giulia Iafrate , Tobias Jogler , G. J'ohannesson , Anthony S. Johnson , T. Kamae , Hideaki Katagiri , Prof. Jun Kataoka , Junichiro Katsuta , Matthew Kerr , J. Knodlseder , Prof. Dale Kocevski , M. Kuss , Helene Laffon , J. Lande , S. Larsson , Luca Latronico , Marianne Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , L. Li , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Michael N. Lovellette , Pasquale Lubrano , J. Magill , S. Maldera , Martino Marelli , Michael Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , Peter F. Michelson , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Alexander A. Moiseev , Maria Elena Monzani , E. Moretti , Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko , Prof. Simona Murgia , Prof. Rodrigo Nemmen , Eric Nuss , Takashi Ohsugi , Nicola Omodei , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , David Paneque , J. S. Perkins , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Prof. Vahe' Petrosian , Frederic Piron , Giovanna Pivato , Troy Porter , S. Rain`o , Riccardo Rando , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Prof. Olaf Reimer , Matthieu Renaud , Thierry Reposeur , Mr. Romain Rousseau , P. M. Parkinson , J. Schmid , A. Schulz , C. Sgr`o , Eric J Siskind , Francesca Spada , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Andrew W. Strong , Daniel Suson , Hiro Tajima , Hiromitsu Takahashi , T. Tanaka , Jana B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , Omar Tibolla , Prof. Diego F. Torres , Gino Tosti , Eleonora Troja , Yasunobu Uchiyama , G. Vianello , B. Wells , Kent Wood , M. Wood , Manal Yassine , Stephan Zimmer

The latest $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT gamma-ray catalog, 4FGL-DR3, presents a large fraction of sources without clear association to known counterparts, i.e., unidentified sources (unIDs). In this paper, we aim to classify them using machine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-03 Javier Coronado-Blázquez

The nature of the Fermi gamma-ray Galactic Center Excess (GCE) has remained a persistent mystery for over a decade. Although the excess is broadly compatible with emission expected due to dark matter annihilation, an explanation in terms of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-29 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Kyle Cranmer

Machine learning is an automatic technique that is revolutionizing scientific research, with innovative applications and wide use in astrophysics. The aim of this study was to developed an optimized version of an Artificial Neural Network…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-26 Miloš Kovačević , Graziano Chiaro , Sara Cutini , Gino Tosti

The determination of distance is fundamental in astrophysics. Gamma-ray sources are poorly characterized in this sense, as the limited angular resolution and poor photon-count statistics in gamma-ray astronomy makes it difficult to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-03 Javier Coronado-Blázquez

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR2, for Data Release 2) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first ten years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it uses the same analysis methods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-18 J. Ballet , T. H. Burnett , S. W. Digel , B. Lott

The Cygnus Loop is a nearby supernova remnant (SNR) observed across the electromagnetic spectrum. With the analysis of 6 years of Fermi/LAT data we find that, what previous studies had considered a single source, consists of an extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-04 I. Reichardt , R. Terrier , J. West , S. Safi-Harb , E. de Oña-Wilhelmi , J. Rico