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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

Time domain radio astronomy observing campaigns frequently generate large volumes of data. Our goal is to develop automated methods that can identify events of interest buried within the larger data stream. The V-FASTR fast transient system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kiri L. Wagstaff , Benyang Tang , David R. Thompson , Shakeh Khudikyan , Jane Wyngaard , Adam T. Deller , Divya Palaniswamy , Steven J. Tingay , Randall B. Wayth

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

Blazars are among the most studied sources in high-energy astrophysics as they form the largest fraction of extragalactic gamma-ray sources and are considered prime candidates for being the counterparts of high-energy astrophysical…

We discuss a method to constrain the distance of blazars with unknown redshift using combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes. We assume that the VHE spectrum corrected for the absorption through the interaction with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-08 E. Prandini , G. Bonnoli , L. Maraschi , M. Mariotti , F. Tavecchio

The first three months of sky-survey operation with the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) Large Area Telescope (LAT) reveals 132 bright sources at |b|>10 deg with test statistic greater than 100 (corresponding to about 10 sigma). Two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-30 A. A. Abdo

Very-high energy (VHE; $>$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray emission originates via some of the most extreme particle acceleration processes in the universe. Considering beamed active galactic nuclei, i.e., blazars, only a small fraction, mainly high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Sushmita Agarwal , Vaidehi S. Paliya

Blazars are highly variable sources over timescales that can be as low as minutes. This is the case of the High Energy Peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects showing strong variability in X-rays, which highly correlate with that of the TeV emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Donnarumma , A. Tramacere , S. Turriziani , L. Costamante , R. Campana , A. De Rosa , E. Bozzo

Recent works have developed samples of blazars from among the Fermi-LAT unassociated sources via machine learning comparisons with known blazar samples. Continued analysis of these new blazars tests the predictions of the blazar sequence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Stephen Kerby , Abraham D. Falcone

There are a total of 1451 gamma-ray emitting objects in the Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalogue. The point source location accuracy of typically a few arcminutes has allowed the counterparts for many of these sources to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 J. B. Stephen , L. Bassani , R. Landi , A. Malizia , V. Sguera , A. Bazzano , N. Masetti

We present the 1-100 GeV spectral energy distribution for a population of 148 high-synchrotron-peaked blazars (HSPs) recently detected with Fermi-LAT as part of the First Brazil-ICRANet Gamma-ray Blazar catalogue (1BIGB). Most of the 1BIGB…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 B. Arsioli , U. Barres de Almeida , E. Prandini , B. Fraga , L. Foffano

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly used across astrophysics, enabled by the growing availability of data and improved acquisition methods. These approaches now support tasks from redshift estimation to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 E. Oukacha , Y. Becherini

The highest-energy blazars exhibit non-thermal radiation extending beyond 1 TeV with high luminosities and strong variabilities, indicating extreme particle acceleration in their relativistic jets. The gamma-ray spectra of blazars contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Qi Feng

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

Over seventy blazars identified as sources of TeV gamma ray emission have been detected, including approximately sixty BL Lac objects and seven flat spectrum radio quasars. The distribution in space of these objects can be described by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Aryeh Brill

The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi Large Area Telescope Sources (3FHL) reports the detection of 1556 objects at E > 10 GeV. However, 177 sources remain unassociated and 23 are associated with a ROSAT X-ray detection of unknown origin. Pointed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 S. Joffre , R. Silver , M. Rajagopal , M. Ajello , N. Torres-Albà , A. Pizzetti , S. Marchesi , A. Kaur

We present a catalog of sources detected above 50 GeV by the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 80 months of data. The newly delivered Pass 8 event-level analysis allows the detection and characterization of sources in the 50 GeV--2…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 LAT Collaboration

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

Our goal is to research the upper limits on the extragalactic background light (EBL). The upper limits on the extragalactic background light (EBL), using the Fermi and very high energy (VHE) spectra recently observed in TeV blazars, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Jianping Yang , Jiancheng Wang

Very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), giant molecular clouds, gamma-ray binaries, the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves
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