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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

We present the results of our follow-up observation program of gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. 26 blazars and 39 sources unidentified at other wavelengths were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mai Fujiwara , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Nobuyuki Ienaka

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

The emission of very-high-energy photons (VHE, E>100 GeV$) in blazars is closely connected to the production of ultra-relativistic particles and the role of these gamma-ray sources as cosmic particle accelerators. This work focuses on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-04 M. Nievas Rosillo , A. Domínguez , G. Chiaro , G. La Mura , A. Brill , V. S. Paliya

The parsec-scale radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been investigated using observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Comparisons between LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , R. W. Romani , J. F. Helmboldt , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , J. L. Richards

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

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 Fermi-LAT has detected more than 3000 sources in the GeV $\gamma$-ray regime. The majority are extra-galactic and these sources are dominated by blazars. However, $\sim28$ per cent of the sources in Fermi 3LAC are listed as blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 L. Klindt , B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes , P. Väisänen

The study of machine learning (ML) techniques for the autonomous classification of astrophysical sources is of great interest, and we explore its applications in the context of a multifrequency data-frame. We test the use of supervised ML…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Bruno Arsioli , Pedro Dedin

Blazars represent the most abundant class of high-energy extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. The subset of blazars known as BL Lac objects is on average closer to Earth and characterized by harder spectra at high energy than the whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-26 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , G. Lamanna , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico

We conduct X-ray spectral fits on 184 likely counterparts to Fermi-LAT 3FGL unassociated sources. Characterization and classification of these sources allows for more complete population studies of the high-energy sky. Most of these X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Stephen Kerby , Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D. Falcone , Michael C. Stroh , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Jamie A. Kennea , Joseph Colosimo

The impact of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on blazar research is reviewed. This includes a brief description of the Fermi Large Area Telescope, a summary of the various classes of extragalactic sources found in the First Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Charles D. Dermer

The parsec-scale radio properties of 232 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), most of which are blazars, detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , F. K. Schinzel

Context. Blazars are a distinct subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN), known for their fast variability, high polarization, and intense emission across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays. Gamma-ray blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 N. Álvarez Crespo , A. Domínguez , V. S. Paliya , M. Chamorro Cazorla , P. Sánchez Blázquez , A. Gil de Paz

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL) lists over 5000 gamma-ray sources with statistical significance above 4$\sigma$. About 23% of the sources listed in this catalog are unidentified/unassociated gamma-ray sources…

Blazars dominate the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky and show pronounced flares. Using public Fermi-LAT light curves for 732 blazars with secure redshifts, I implement an automated pipeline to identify and characterize $\gamma$-ray bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 Matteo Cerruti

The classifications of Fermi-LAT unassociated sources are studied using multiple machine learning (ML) methods. The update data from 4FGL-DR3 are divided into high Galactic latitude (HGL, Galactic latitude $|b|>10^\circ$) and low Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-08 K. R. Zhu , J. M. Chen , Y. G. Zheng , L. Zhang

Approximately one-third of the gamma-ray sources in the third Fermi-LAT catalog are unidentified or unassociated with objects at other wavelengths. Observations with Swift-XRT have yielded possible counterparts in $\sim$30% of these source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D Falcone , Michael D Stroh , Jamie A Kennea , Elizabeth C Ferrara

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

The extragalactic $\gamma$-rays sky observed by Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is dominated by blazars. In the fourth release of the Fermi-LAT Point Source Catalog (4FGL), are sources showing a multifrequency behavior similar to that of…