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The density-based clustering algorithm DBSCAN has been applied to the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) dataset of $ E_{\gamma} \geqslant 100$ GeV events with $\lvert b\rvert>10^{\circ}$, in order to search for new very high energy (VHE)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-04 Thomas Armstrong , Anthony M. Brown , Paula M. Chadwick , S. J. Nolan

An incremental version (4LAC-DR2) of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT is presented. This version is associated with the second release of the 4FGL general catalog (based on 10 years of data),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-19 B. Lott , D. Gasparrini , S. Ciprini

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…

A majority of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe are classified as low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN), having bolometric luminosities $\lesssim 10^{42} \ \mathrm{erg \ s^{-1}}$. Although high-energy gamma-ray emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Chris Karwin , Nikita Khatiya , Margot Boughelilba , Xiurui Zhao , Anita Reimer , Marco Ajello

An equivalent width (EW) based classification may cause the erroneous judgement to the flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lacerate objects (BL Lac) due to the diluting the line features by dramatic variations in the jet continuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu

Radio-loud sources with blazar-like properties, but having a jet that does not directly point in the direction of the observer are among the most interesting classes of gamma-ray emitters. These sources are known as Misaligned Active…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-30 G. Chiaro , G. La Mura , A. Dominguez , S. Bisogni

Bent radio active galactic nuclei (RAGNs) -- wide-angle tails (WATs) and narrow-angle tails (NATs) -- trace dense environments in galaxy groups and clusters, yet no multiclass classifier simultaneously separates them from straight…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 M. S. Hossain , M. S. H. Shahal , K. M. B. Asad , P. Saikia , A. Khan , F. Akter , A. Ali , M. A. Amin , D. P. Guha , M. O. B. Jihad , A. Momen , S. Sen , A. K. M. M. Rahman

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

Dark matter annihilation signals coming from Galactic subhaloes may account for a small fraction of unassociated point sources detected in the Second Fermi-LAT catalogue (2FGL). To investigate this possibility, we present Sibyl, a Random…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 N. Mirabal , V. Frias-Martinez , T. Hassan , E. Frias-Martinez

Identifying active galactic nuclei (AGN) is extremely important for understanding galaxy evolution and its connection with the assembly of supermassive black holes (SMBH). With the advent of deep and high angular resolution imaging surveys…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Berta Margalef-Bentabol , Lingyu Wang , Antonio La Marca , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) having relativistic jets aligned within a few degrees of our line-of-sight and form the majority of the AGN detected in the TeV regime. The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Atreya Acharyya , Alberto C. Sadun

Reliable, versatile galaxy activity diagnostics are essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Traditional methods frequently necessitate extensive preprocessing, such as starlight subtraction and emission line deblending (e.g.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 C. Daoutis , A. Zezas , E. Kyritsis , K. Kouroumpatzakis , P. Bonfini

In order to find a fast and reliable method for selecting metal poor galaxies (MPGs), especially in large surveys and huge database, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) method is applied to a sample of star-forming galaxies from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Shi , Y-Y. Liu , X. Kong , Y. Chen

We introduce a novel machine learning dataset tailored for the classification of bent radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) in astronomical observations. Bent radio AGN, distinguished by their curved jet structures, provide critical insights…

The third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) presented the data of the first four years of observations from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. There are 3034 sources, 1010 of which still remain unidentified. Identifying and classifying…

Molecular property prediction (e.g., energy) is an essential problem in chemistry and biology. Unfortunately, many supervised learning methods usually suffer from the problem of scarce labeled molecules in the chemical space, where such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Zhongkai Hao , Chengqiang Lu , Zheyuan Hu , Hao Wang , Zhenya Huang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen , Cheekong Lee

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are expected to contribute substantially to both the intensity and anisotropy of the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB). In turn, the measured properties of the IGRB can be used to constrain the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-03 Mattia Di Mauro , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

We collect data at all frequencies for the new sources classified as unknown active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the latest Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray catalog. Focusing on the 36 sources with measured redshift, we compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Luca Giuliani , Gabriele Ghisellini , Tullia Sbarrato

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

Artificial Neural Networks have emerged as an important tool for classification and have been widely used to classify a non-linear separable pattern. The most popular artificial neural networks model is a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) as it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Yana Mazwin Mohmad Hassim , Rozaida Ghazali