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We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 LAT collaboration

Statistical studies indicate that the 271 point sources of high-energy gamma rays belong to two groups: a Galactic population and an isotropic extragalactic population. Many unidentified extragalactic sources are certainly blazars, and it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. M. Wallace , S. D. Bloom , M. S. Lewis

An incremental version of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope is presented. This version (4LAC-DR3) derives from the third data release of the 4FGL catalog based on 12 years of E>50…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 LAT collaboration , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Josefa Becerra Gonzalez , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Philippe Bruel , Sara Buson , Regina Caputo , Patrizia Caraveo , Teddy Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Niccolo Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Elizabeth Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , David Green , Isabelle Grenier , Sylvain Guiriec , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Taishu Kayanoki , Michael Kuss , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Tiffany Lewis , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Michael Lovellette , Pasquale Lubrano , Grzegorz Madejski , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Peter Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Maria Elena Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Roopesh Ojha , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , Zhiyuan Pei , Harold A. Pena-Herazo , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Jeff Scargle , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Dan Suson , Hiro Tajima , Diego F. Torres , Janeth Valverde , Hend Yassin , Gabrijela Zaharijas

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the high-energy gamma-ray source 3EG J2006-2321. The flux of this source above 100 MeV is shown to be variable on time scales of days and months. Optical observations and careful examination of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Wallace , J. P. Halpern , A. M. Magalhaes , D. J. Thompson

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is producing the most detailed inventory of the gamma-ray sky to date. Despite tremendous achievements approximately 25% of all Fermi extragalactic sources in the Second Fermi LAT Catalogue (2FGL) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 T. Hassan , N. Mirabal , J. L. Contreras , I. Oya

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by emission from blazars, a peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Many of the $\gamma$-ray sources included in Fermi -Large Area Telescope Third Source catalog (3FGL) are classified…

B2013+370 and B2023+336 are two blazars at low-galactic latitude that were previously proposed to be the counterparts for the EGRET unidentified sources, 3EG J2016+3657 and 3EG J2027+3429. Gamma-ray emission associated with the EGRET…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Kara , M. Errando , W. Max-Moerbeck , E. Aliu , M. Bottcher , P. Fortin , J. P. Halpern , R. Mukherjee , A. C. S. Readhead , J. L. Richards

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) sources feature supermassive black holes that launch relativistic plasma jets. They are key $\gamma$-ray sources providing a unique laboratory for studying extreme particle acceleration and plasma physics.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Luana Passos-Reis , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Tarek Hassan , Santiago Pita , Alberto Domínguez

We report on the results of X-ray and radio follow-up observations of two GeV gamma-ray sources 2FGL J0923.5+1508 and 2FGL J1502.1+5548, selected as candidates for high-redshift blazars from unassociated sources in the {\it Fermi} Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Y. Takahashi , J. Kataoka , K. Niinuma , M. Honma , Y. Inoue , T. Totani , S. Inoue , T. Nakamori , K. Maeda

During a search for gamma-ray emission from NGC 3628 (Arp 317), two new unidentified gamma-ray sources, Fermi J1049.7+0435 and J1103.2+1145 have been discovered \cite{ATel}. The detections are made in data from the Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 Masaki Nishimichi , Takeshi Okuda , Masaki Mori , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens

In the 4FGL-DR4 point-source catalog of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory (Fermi-LAT), around a third of the sources are still unidentified (unIDs). In this work, we perform a detailed study of one of…

Many sources in the fourth INTEGRAL/IBIS catalogue are still unidentified, since they lack an optical counterpart. An important tool that can help in identifying/classifying these sources is the cross-correlation with radio catalogues,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Manuela Molina , Raffaella Landi , Loredana Bassani , Angela Malizia , John B. Stephen , Angela Bazzano , Antony J. Bird , Neil Gehrels

The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by relativistic jets aligned to the observer's line of sight, i.e., blazars. A few of their misaligned counterparts, e.g., radio galaxies, are also detected with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , Alberto Domínguez , C. S. Stalin

We have analyzed all the archival X-ray data of 134 unidentified (unID) gammaray sources listed in the first Fermi/LAT (1FGL) catalog and subsequently followed up by Swift/XRT. We constructed the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Y. Takeuchi , J. Kataoka , K. Maeda , Y. Takahashi , T. Nakamori , M. Tahara

In the fourth \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (4FGL), 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources are reported, including 3207 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), 239 pulsars, 1336 unassociated sources, 92 sources with weak association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Kerui Zhu , Shi-Ju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng

High-redshift radio sources provide plentiful opportunities for studying the formation and evolution of early galaxies and supermassive black holes. However, the number of known radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) above redshift 4 is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Krezinger , K. Perger , K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , L. I Gurvits , Zs. Paragi , T. An , Y. Zhang , H. Cao , T. Sbarrato

Studying unidentified {\gamma}-ray sources is important as they may hide new discoveries. We conducted a multiwavelength analysis of 13 unidentified Fermi-LAT sources in the 3FGL catalog that have no known counterparts (Unidentified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Jean Damascène Mbarubucyeye , Felicia Krauß , Pheneas Nkundabakura

BL Lac Objects (BL Lacs) and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) are radio-loud active galaxies (AGNs) whose jets are seen at a small viewing angle (blazars), while Misaligned Active Galactic Nuclei (MAGNs) are mainly radiogalaxies of type…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-20 G. Chiaro , M. Meyer , N. Alvarez Crespo , R. J. Britto , J. P. Marais , B. van Soelen , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , D. J Thompson

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards

We present the results of an all-sky radio survey between 5 and 9 GHz of the fields surrounding all unassociated gamma-ray objects listed in the Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog (2FGL). The goal of these observations is to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-12 Frank K. Schinzel , Leonid Petrov , Gregory B. Taylor , Elizabeth K. Mahony , Philip G. Edwards , Yuri Y. Kovalev