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We utilized a sample from the Fermi-LAT 14-year Source Catalog by adjusting the flux detection threshold, enabling us to derive the intrinsic source count distribution $dN/dF_{25}$ of extragalactic blazars using nonparametric, unbinned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 Xuhang Yin , Houdun Zeng

We investigate the spectral properties of the brightest gamma-ray flares of blazars detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We search for the presence of spectral breaks and measure the spectral curvature on typical time scales of a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Susanna Kohler , Krzysztof Nalewajko

We employ a single-zone leptonic jet model, with synchrotron, synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) and external Compton (EC) process, to reproduce the quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength spectral energy distributions in active and quiescent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Shiju Kang

The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. We discuss the $\gamma$-ray emission process within the context of the outer gap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-26 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

We test different physically motivated models for the spectral shape of the $\gamma$-ray emission in a sample of 128 blazars with known redshifts detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) at energies above 50 GeV. The first nine…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Jacobus P. van den Berg , Markus Boettcher , Alberto Dominguez , Marcos Lopez-Moya

We have performed a Monte-Calro simulation for Galactic population of pulsars and for the $\gamma$-ray observations. We apply outer gap model for the $\gamma$-ray emission process, and study the radiation characteristics as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Takata , Y. Wang , K. S. Cheng

In this paper we extend our approach to modeling multifrequency emission variability from blazars to include external-radiation Compton (ERC) emission and electron energy losses from inverse Compton scattering of seed photons originating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrei Sokolov , Alan P. Marscher

In this article, we revisit the gamma-ray emission observed from millisecond pulsars and globular clusters. Based on 5.6 years of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, we report gamma-ray spectra for 61 millisecond pulsars, finding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-22 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Blazars are a sub-category of radio-loud active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointing towards to the observer. They are well-known for their non-thermal variable emission, which practically extends over the whole electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-28 Stella Boula , Maria Petropoulou , Apostolos Mastichiadis

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

The LAT instrument, onboard the Fermi satellite, in its first three months of operation detected more than 100 blazars at more than the 10 sigma level. This is already a great improvement with respect to its predecessor, the instrument…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-18 G. Ghisellini

Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope measurements of spectra, variability time scale, and maximum photon energy give lower limits to the apparent jet powers and, through gammagamma opacity arguments, the bulk Lorentz factors of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-01 Charles D. Dermer , Soebur Razzaque

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that emit non-thermal radiation through relativistic jets, characterized by rapid flux and polarization variability. High synchrotron-peaked blazars (HSPs) and extreme high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Adithiya Dinesh , Alberto Dominguez , V. Paliya , J. L. Contreras , S. Buson , M. Ajello

We use a simple two-layer outer gap model, whose accelerator consists of a primary region and a screening region, to discuss $\gamma$-ray spectrum of mature pulsars detected by $Fermi$. By solving the Poisson equation with an assumed simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

The external Compton (EC) model is used to study the high energy emission of some blazars, in which the external photon field is considered to dominate inverse Compton radiation. We explore the properties of external photon field through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Xiao-Yan Gao , Jian-Cheng Wang , Ming Zhou

We present a two-parameter model of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) in the 0.1-100 GeV range as measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite. The EGB can be fully explained as the sum of three distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Massimo Cavadini , Ruben Salvaterra , Francesco Haardt

High-redshift ($z>2$) blazars are the most powerful members of the blazar family. Yet, only a handful of them have both X-ray and $\gamma$-ray detection, thereby making it difficult to characterize the energetics of the most luminous jets.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. Ajello , R. Ojha , R. Angioni , C. C. Cheung , K. Tanada , T. Pursimo , P. Galindo , I. R. Losada , L. Siltala , A. A. Djupvik , L. Marcotulli , D. Hartmann

High-energy photons from cosmological emitters suffer attenuation due to pair production interactions with the extragalactic background light (EBL). The collective emission of any high-energy emitting cosmological population will exhibit an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Tonia M. Venters , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Luis C. Reyes

The spectra of blazars form a sequence which can be parametrized in term of their observed bolometric luminosity. At the most powerful extreme of the sequence we find objects whose jet power can rival the power extracted by accretion, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Ghisellini

There is clear evidence that the $\gamma$-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is attributed to the inverse Compton scatterings in the relativistic blobs near the massive black holes. If the soft seed photons are from the regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhonghui Fan , Xinwu Cao , Minfeng Gu
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