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Cosmic rays are mostly composed of protons accelerated to relativistic speeds. When those protons encounter interstellar material, they produce neutral pions which in turn decay into gamma rays. This offers a compelling way to identify the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 LAT Collaboration , S. Abdollahi , F. Acero , M. Ackermann , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , A. Berretta , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , G. Chiaro , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , J. Coronado-Blázquez , M. Crnogorcevic , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , S. De Gaetano , N. Di Lalla , F. Dirirsa , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , S. J. Fegan , A. Fiori , H. Fleischhack , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , V. Gammaldi , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kayanoki , M. Kerr , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , E. Nuss , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , R. Pillera , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , K. Sueoka , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , J. Valverde , Z. Wadiasingh , K. Wood , G. Zaharijas

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seems to link them to Soft Gamma Repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-23 Giacomo Principe , Nicola Omodei , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Francesco Longo

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, ex-GLAST) provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It is an adequate telescope to detect transient sources, since the observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-25 Sylvain Chaty

We report on the detection of a gamma-ray source at the position of the nearby star-forming galaxy (SFG) M83, which is found from our analysis of 14 years of the data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board {\it Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

We report on a search for steep spectrum radio sources within the 95% confidence error ellipses of the Fermi unassociated sources from the Large Array Telescope (LAT). Using existing catalogs and the newly released GMRT all-sky survey at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 D. A. Frail , K. P. Mooley , P. Jagannathan , H. T. Intema

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…

Galaxy clusters can be sources of high-energy (HE) $\gamma$-ray radiation, due to the efficient acceleration of particles exceeding EeV energies. At present, though, the only candidate for emitting HE $\gamma$-rays is the Coma cluster,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Vardan Baghmanyan , Davit Zargaryan , Felix Aharonian , Ruizhi Yang , Sabrina Casanova , Jonathan Mackey

All-sky explorations by Fermi-LAT have revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray sky. While its ongoing all-sky survey counts thousands of sources, essential issues related to the nature of unassociated sources call for sensitive all-sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Eugenio Bottacini , Marco Ajello

We present X-ray point source catalogs obtained from archival Swift observations that have partially or fully covered the 95% confidence error contour of unidentified Fermi sources. In total, 21 out of 37 unidentified Fermi sources have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-12 N. Mirabal

We have investigated a number of factors that can have significant impacts on the classification performance of $\gamma$-ray sources detected by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) with machine learning techniques. We show that a framework of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Shengda Luo , Alex P. Leung , C. Y. Hui , K. L. Li

This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half are neutron stars discovered using LAT data, through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-25 LAT collaboration

The advent of new all-sky radio surveys such as the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) and the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), performed with the latest generation radio telescopes, is opening new possibilities on the classification and study of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 G. Bruni , L. Bassani , M. Persic , Y. Rephaeli , A. Malizia , M. Molina , M. Fiocchi , R. Ricci , M. H. Wieringa , M. Giroletti , F. Panessa , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini

The past decade has presented a revolution in the field of observational high energy gamma-ray astrophysics with the advent of a new generation in ground-based TeV telescopes and subsequent GeV space telescopes. The Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Adam B. Hill , Richard Dubois , Diego F. Torres

This is the first report of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observations of the quasar 3C 454.3, which has been undergoing pronounced long-term outbursts since 2000. The data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT), covering 2008 July 7 -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

The Gamma ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board Fermi has been providing continuous data to the astronomical community since 2008 August 12. In this paper we present the results of the analysis of the first three years of these continuous data…

The F -GAMMA program is a coordinated effort of several observing facilities to understand the AGN/blazar phenomenon via a multi-frequency monitoring approach, especially in the era of Fermi-GST. Some 60 prominent sources are monitored…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-01 E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Nestoras , J. A. Zensus , N. Marchili , V. Pavlidou , T. P. Krichbaum

We report on a recent (2016-2018) enhancement of the GeV emission from the SN 1987A region as observed with Fermi/LAT. The observed signal is characterised by a power-law spectrum with a slope of 2.1 +/- 0.2 and is detected only at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-08 Denys Malyshev , Gerd Pühlhofer , Andrea Santangelo , Jacco Vink

We present the result of a search of the Milagro sky map for spatial correlations with sources from a subset of the recent Fermi Bright Source List (BSL). The BSL consists of the 205 most significant sources detected above 100 MeV by the…

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrinsic spectral and flux properties of the source sample. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite is exploring the gamma-ray sky in the energy range above 20MeV. We have developed a method to reconstruct the energy spectra of the gamma rays detected by the Fermi LAT instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. N. Mazziotta