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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Thompson , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

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 describe a catalogue of gamma-ray source candidates, selected using the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm on the 9-years Fermi-LAT sky (Pass 8) at energies higher than 10 GeV. The extragalactic sky at absolute Galactic latitudes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 R. Campana , E. Massaro , E. Bernieri

We analyze the optical light-curve data, obtained with the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey, for 47 gamma-ray blazars monitored by the Large Area Telescope onboard {\it the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}. These 47 sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Si-Si Sun , Zhongxiang Wang , Shun-hao Ji

Gamma rays reveal extreme, nonthermal conditions in the Universe. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been exploring the gamma-ray sky for more than four years, enabling a search for powerful transients like gamma-ray bursts, solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Thompson

We implemented a novel technique to perform the collective spectral analysis of sets of multiple gamma-ray point sources using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. The energy spectra of the sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , F. de Palma , N. Giglietto

Statistical properties of photon count maps have recently been proven as a new tool to study the composition of the gamma-ray sky with high precision. We employ the 1-point probability distribution function of 6 years of Fermi-LAT data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-01 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis

The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Denys Malyshev , Lars Mohrmann

We show the existence of a statistically significant, robust detection of a gamma-ray source in the Milky Way Galactic Center that is consistent with a spatially extended signal using about 4 years of Fermi-LAT data. The gamma-ray flux is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-23 Kevork N. Abazajian , Manoj Kaplinghat

We construct a systematic survey of extragalactic \gamma-ray sky at the energies above 100 GeV using the data of Fermi telescope. Such survey has not been previously done by the ground-based Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes which have,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , Ie. Vovk

The inner region of the Milky Way is one of the most interesting and complex regions of the gamma-ray sky. The intense interstellar emission and resolved point sources, as well as potential contributions by other sources such as unresolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Troy A. Porter , Simona Murgia

The source-count distribution as a function of their flux, dN/dS, is one of the main quantities characterizing gamma-ray source populations. We employ statistical properties of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) photon counts map to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-28 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Andrea Vittino

Approximately one-third of existing $\gamma$-ray sources identified by the $\textit{Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope}$ are considered to be unassociated, with no known counterpart at other frequencies/wavelengths. These sources have been the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 S. Bruzewski , F. K. Schinzel , G. B. Taylor

We search for the long-term variability of the \gamma-ray sky in the energy range E > 1 GeV with 168 weeks of Fermi-LAT data. We perform a full sky blind search for regions with variable flux looking for deviations from uniformity. We bin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

With its excellent sensitivity, large field of view, broad energy coverage, and good per-photon angular resolution, the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite provides us with an unprecedented view of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Jürgen Knödlseder

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 sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allows detection of thousands of new gamma-ray sources and detailed characterization of the spectra and variability of bright sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Matthew Kerr

We present a stacking method that makes use of co-added maps of gamma-ray counts produced from data taken with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. Sources with low integrated gamma-ray fluxes that are not detected individually may become…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Huber , C. Farnier , A. Manalaysay , U. Straumann , R. Walter

A new method of investigating ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources is suggested. The method is based on analysis of gamma-ray emission that is generated in extragalactic space when ultra-high energy cosmic particles interact with cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-17 A. V. Uryson

At GeV energies, the sky is dominated by the interstellar emission from the Galaxy. With limited statistics and spatial resolution, accurately separating point sources is therefore challenging. Here we present the first application of deep…