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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely believed to be from massive collapsars and/or compact binary mergers, which accordingly, would generate long and short GRBs, respectively. The details on this classification scheme have been in constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Shuai Zhang , Lang Shao , Bin-Bin Zhang , Jin-Hang Zou , Hai-Yuan Sun , Yu-Jie Yao , Lin-Lin Li

The Fermi-LAT telescope has measured the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) generated by the ensemble of all extragalactic sources. The energy distribution of the EGB is well described as a power-law with a spectral index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Paolo Lipari

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of gamma-ray radiation observed up to a high redshift ($z \sim 10$) due to their luminosities. Thus, they can serve as cosmological tools to probe the early Universe. However, we need…

Linear time series analysis, mainly the Fourier transform based methods, has been quite successful in extracting information contained in the ever-modulating light curves (Lcs) of active galactic nuclei, and thereby contribute in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Gopal Bhatta , Radim Pánis , Zdeněk Stuchlík

One of the main scientific objectives of the ongoing Fermi mission is unveiling the nature of the unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGSs). Despite the large improvements of Fermi in the localization of gamma-ray sources with respect to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , G. Tosti , M. Ajello , A. Paggi. D. Gasparrini

It is now generally accepted that long-duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are due to the collapse of massive rotating stars. The precise collapse process itself, however, is not yet fully understood. Strong winds, outbursts, and intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Robert A. Mesler , Daniel J. Whalen , Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning , Chris L. Fryer , Ylva M. Pihlström

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly attributed to the demise of massive stars or the merger of binary compact objects. However, their varied emission characteristics strongly imply the existence of multiple GRB classes based on progenitor…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Nishil Mehta , Shabnam Iyyani

We investigate the variability properties of blazars in the GeV band using the data of the Fermi/LAT telescope. We find that blazars exhibit variability on the scales down to the minimal timescale resolvable by Fermi, which is a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ievgen Vovk , Andrii Neronov

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…

Fermi-LAT observations provide continuous and regularly-sampled measurements of gamma-ray photon flux for hundreds of blazars. Many of these light curves, spanning almost 15 years, have been thoroughly examined for periodicity in multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Polina Novikova , Ekaterina Shishkina , Dmitry Blinov

We use a new method of analysis to determine parameters of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), assuming that their distribution follows the star-formation history of the universe. Spectral evolution is calculated from an external shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

The blazar 3C 279 is well known for its rapid and large-amplitude variability. On 20 December 2013, the source exhibited an orphan {\gamma}-ray flare characterized by a flux-doubling timescale of a few hours, a very hard spectrum, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Sébastien Le Bihan , Anton Dmytriiev , Andreas Zech

The origin of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been debated for some time. { The EGB comprises the $\gamma$-ray emission from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources, such as blazars, star-forming galaxies and radio…

Using blazar light curves from the optical All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) and the $\gamma$-ray \textit{Fermi}-LAT telescope, we performed the most extensive statistical correlation study between both bands, using a sample…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 T. de Jaeger , B. J. Shappee , C. S. Kochanek , J. T. Hinkle , S. Garrappa , I. Liodakis , A. Franckowiak , K. Z. Stanek , J. F. Beacom , J. L. Prieto

We investigate the $\gamma$-ray and X-ray population properties of changing-look blazars (CLBs) using sources from the Fourth \textit{Fermi} LAT Source Catalog Data Release 4 (4FGL-DR4) together with X-ray information from the Living…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Zahoor Malik , Sikandar Akbar , Zahir Shah

Blazars are a small fraction of all extragalactic sources but, unlike other objects, they are strong emitters across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. In this study we have conducted a detailed investigation of the broad-band spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , P. Giommi , M. N. Mazziotta , C. Monte

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV during propagation from sources at cosmological distances. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT , the GBM Collaboration , : , A. A. Abdo

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) provides long term systematic monitoring observations of the gamma-ray emission from blazars. The variability properties and the correlation with other wavelength bands are important clues for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Larsson

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars beyond $z=3$ has only been confirmed for a small number of sources. Such observations probe the…

Blazars exhibit stochastic flux variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, often exhibiting heavy-tailed flux distributions, commonly modeled as lognormal. However, Tavecchio et al. (2020) and Adams et al. (2022) found that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Aryeh Brill