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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been detecting a wealth of sources where the multi-wavelength counterpart is either inconclusive or missing altogether. We present a combination of factors that can be used to identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Acero , D. Donato , R. Ojha , J. Stevens , P. G. Edwards , E. Ferrara , J. Blanchard , J. E. J. Lovell , D. J. Thompson

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

Non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky and started to deepen our understanding of the physical processes and the nature of AGN in general. The detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Frank M. Rieger

The Fermi-LAT DR1 and DR2 4FGL catalogues feature more than 5000 gamma-ray sources of which about one fourth are not associated with already known objects, and approximately one third are associated with blazars of uncertain nature. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Germani , G. Tosti , . Lubrano , S. Cutini , I. Mereu , A. Berretta

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) exhibit variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum with distinct flaring episodes at different frequencies. The high sensitivity and nearly uniform sky coverage of the Large Area Telescope on board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Filippo D'Ammando

We present a statistical characterization of the $\gamma$-ray emission from the four \emph{Fermi}-LAT sources: FR I radio galaxy NGC 1275, BL Lac Mrk 421, FSRQs B2 1520+31 and PKS 1510-089 detected almost continuously over a time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-09 Pankaj Kushwaha , Atreyee Sinha , Ranjeev Misra , K. P. Singh , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50% of the sources have no clear association with a likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 David Salvetti , Graziano Chiaro , Giovanni La Mura , David J. Thompson

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first three years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 LAT Collaboration

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…

We present the first catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the LAT, corresponding to 11 months of data collected in scientific operation mode. The First LAT AGN Catalog (1LAC) includes 671 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. A. Abdo

PKS 0521-36 is an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) with uncertain classification. We investigate the properties of this source from radio to gamma rays. The broad emission lines in the optical and UV bands and steep radio spectrum indicate a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , E. Torresi , M. Giroletti , C. M. Raiteri , P. Grandi , M. Aller , H. Aller , M. A. Gurwell , G. Malaguti , E. Pian , G. Tosti

We report the detection of a gamma-ray spectral line at approximately 1.5 GeV in three active galactic nuclei (AGN) using 17 years of Fermi-LAT observations. The sample includes both blazars (with relativistic jets directed toward Earth)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Shi-Ju Kang , Yue Yin , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu

We report on the identification of the gamma-ray source 0FGL J20001.0+4352 listed in the Fermi bright source catalogue. This object, which has an observed 1-100 GeV flux of (7.8 +/- 1.2) x 10^{-9} ph cm^{-2} s^{-1} and is located close to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Bassani , R. Landi , N. Masetti , P. Parisi , A. Bazzano , P. Ubertini

For the duration of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's mission, approximately one-third of the point sources detected have been noted as "unassociated," meaning that they seem to have no known counterpart at any other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 S. Bruzewski , F. K. Schinzel , G. B. Taylor , L. Petrov

In the latest data release from the Fermi $\gamma$-ray Space Telescope (the 4th Fermi LAT 14 yr Catalog, or 4FGL), more than 50% of the Galactic sources are yet to be identified. We observed 13 unidentified Fermi LAT sources with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-30 Blagoy Rangelov , Hui Yang , Brice Williams , Oleg Kargaltsev , Jeremy Hare , Kean Martinic

In our previous work in Xiao et al. (2019), we suggested that 6 superluminal sources could be gamma-ray candidates, and in fact 5 of them have been confirmed in the fourth Fermi-LAT source catalogue (4FGL). In this work, based on the 4FGL,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Hubing Xiao , Junhui Fan , Riccardo Rando , Jingtian Zhu , Liangjun Hu

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

The dominant fraction of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources are blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets inclined at a small angle to the line of sight. Apart from blazars, a few dozen narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1) and a number…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-06 K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , K. Perger , E. Kun

Blazars are jet-dominated extragalactic objects characterized by the emission of strongly variable non-thermal radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore, the study of blazars (and in general of radio loud AGN) through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Monte , S. Raino , F. Gargano , S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , J. Leon Tavares , G. Polenta

The Fermi/LAT instrument has detected about two thousands Extragalactic High Energy (E > 100 MeV) gamma-ray sources. One of the brightest is 3FGL 1603.9-4903, associated to the radio source PMN J1603-4904. Its nature is not yet clear, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 P. Goldoni , S. Pita , C. Boisson , C. Mueller , T. Dauser , I. Jung , F. Krauss , J. -P. Lenain , H. Sol