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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

We present X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical observations of 1RXS J154439.4-112820, the most probable counterpart of the unassociated Fermi LAT source 3FGL J1544.6-1125. The optical data reveal rapid variability, which is a feature of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Slavko Bogdanov , Jules P. Halpern

We report the results from our analysis of the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope data of the \textit{Fermi} unassociated source 2FGL J1906.5$+$0720, which is a high-ranked candidate pulsar. In order to better study our target, we first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

We have found an optical/X-ray counterpart candidate for the bright, but presently unidentified, Fermi source 2FGL J1311.7-3429. This counterpart undergoes large amplitude quasi-sinusoidal optical modulation with a 1.56h (5626s) period. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Roger W. Romani

I present a 40 kilosecond Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) observation of the recently identified low-luminosity X-ray binary and transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) candidate 1RXS J154439.4-112820, which is associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Slavko Bogdanov

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) represent a dynamic category of celestial sources that establish a crucial connection between low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars. These systems exhibit transitions from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 M. M. Messa , P. D'Avanzo , F. Coti Zelati , M. C. Baglio , S. Campana

The Fermi source 2FGL~J0523.3$-$2530 has recently been identified as a candidate millisecond pulsar binary with an orbital period of 16.5 hrs. We have carried out detailed studies of the source's emission properties by analyzing data taken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , C. -Y. Ng

Context. Spider pulsars are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems, in which a low-mass companion star is heated and ablated by the pulsar wind. Their observations allow one to study stellar evolution with formation of millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 A. V. Karpova , S. V. Zharikov , D. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Kirichenko , Yu. A. Shibanov , I. F. Márquez

We report on the discovery of gamma-ray pulsations from five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and timing ephemerides provided by various radio observatories. We also present confirmation of the gamma-ray…

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 investigate the gamma-ray and X-ray emission from the transient gamma-ray source Fermi J0035+6131, which was discovered with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) near the Galactic plane at $b=1.3^\circ$, and we discuss potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-16 Dirk Pandel , Philip Kaaret

Following the discovery of radio pulsars at the position of Fermi-LAT unassociated sources by the TRAPUM group, we conduct Swift-XRT observations of six of those 4FGL sources to determine if any pulsar-like X-ray sources are present and to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Stephen Kerby , Abraham D. Falcone , Paul S. Ray

The Fermi source 4FGL J1848.7-0129 has been historically related to the globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01 since its very first detection. Although this association is widely accepted, as it appears in the most recent Fermi catalog, it deserves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla , Josep Martí , Enrique Mestre , Jorge A. Combi , Juan F. Albacete-Colombo

Radio timing observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in support of Fermi LAT observations of the gamma-ray sky enhance the sensitivity of high-energy pulsation searches. With contemporaneous ephemerides we have detected gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

More than 100 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been discovered in radio observations of gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), but hundreds of pulsar-like sources remain unidentified. Here we present the first…

We report the identification of the likely X-ray and optical counterpart to the unassociated Fermi source 4FGL J2249.4+6229. To clarify its nature, we investigate the X-ray data from Swift/XRT and SRG/eROSITA as well as photometric data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 A. V. Karpova , D. A. Zyuzin , S. V. Zharikov , M. R. Gilfanov

Very faint X-ray transients (VFXTs) are a group of X-ray binaries with low luminosities, the peak X-ray luminosities during their outbursts being only 10$^{34}$--10$^{36}$ erg\,s$^{-1}$. Using the $\gamma$-ray data obtained with the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Gege Wang , Zhongxiang Wang

Because of the disappearance of its accretion disk since the time period around 2012 November--December, XSS J12270-4859 has recently been identified as, in addition to PSR J1023+0038, another transitional millisecond pulsar binary. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

The Fermi catalogue contains about 2000 unassociated $\gamma$-ray sources. Some of them were recently identified as pulsars, including so called redbacks and black widows, which are millisecond pulsars in tight binary systems with non- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 A. V. Karpova , D. A. Zyuzin , Yu. A. Shibanov , M. R. Gilfanov

We report multi-wavelength observations of the unidentified Fermi object 2FGL J1653.6-0159. With the help of high-resolution X-ray observation, we have identified an X-ray and optical counterpart of 2FGL J1653.6-0159. The source exhibits a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 A. K. H. Kong , R. Jin , T. -C. Yen , C. P. Hu , C. Y. Hui , P. H. T. Tam , J. Takata , L. C. C. Lin , K. S. Cheng , S. M. Park , C. L. Kim