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We present a summary of gamma-ray millisecond pulsar (MSP) observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The radio and gamma-ray light curves of these MSPs have been modeled in the framework of the retarded vacuum dipole magnetic field.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Tyrel J. Johnson , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Lucas Guillemot

We present optical photometric and spectroscopic observations of the likely stellar counterpart to the unassociated \emph{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source 2FGL J0846.0+2820, selected for study based on positional…

We report on our second-year campaign of X-ray follow-up observations of unidentified Fermi-LAT \gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10 degree) using the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer onboard the Suzaku X-ray Observatory. In this…

We present the orbital solution for the donor star of the candidate transitional millisecond pulsar 3FGL J1544.6-1125, currently observed as an accreting low-mass X-ray binary. The orbital period is $0.2415361(36)$ days, entirely consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-01 Christopher T. Britt , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Evangelina Tremou , Mark Peacock , Jules Halpern , Ricardo Salinas

The Fermi observatory was launched on June 11, 2008. It hosts the \emph{Large Area Telescope} (LAT), sensitive to $\gamma$-ray photons from 20 MeV to over 300 GeV. When the LAT began its activity, nine young and energetic pulsars were known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-10-27 Lucas Guillemot

Spiral galaxies M31 and M33 are Fermi/LAT-detected gamma-ray sources. We model the broadband non-thermal (NT) emission of the central region of M31 (R < 5.5 kpc) and of the disk of M33 (R ~ 9 kpc). For either galaxy, we self-consistently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-16 Massimo Persic , Yoel Rephaeli , Riccardo Rando

Pulsed gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) has been detected by the sensitive Fermi, which sheds light on studies of the emission region and mechanism. In particular, the specific patterns of radio and gamma-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 YuanJie Du , GuoJun Qiao , Ding Chen

We report on the detection of a gamma-ray source at the position of the nearby star-forming galaxy (SFG) M83, which is found from our analysis of 14 years of the data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board {\it Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

We have searched and reviewed all multi- wavelength data available for the region towards the gamma-ray source 2FGL J2056.7+4939 in order to con- strain its possible counterpart at lower energies. As a result, only a point-like…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-20 J. Martí , P. L. Luque-Escamilla , E. Sánchez-Ayaso , A. J. Muñoz-Arjonilla

The discovery of the gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1836+5925, powering the formerly unidentified EGRET source 3EG J1835+5918, was one of the early accomplishments of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Sitting 25 degrees off the Galactic plane,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

I obtained time-series photometry of the compact binary candidate for the Fermi source 4FGL J0935.3+0901. Superposed on the 2.44 hr orbital modulation are day-to-day variations and frequent flaring as seen in several redback and black widow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-19 J. P. Halpern

We study the gamma-ray spectra of 30 globular clusters (GCs) thus far detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Presuming that gamma-ray emission of a GC comes from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) contained in, a model that generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei Wu , Zhongxiang Wang , Yi Xing , Pengfei Zhang

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of gamma-ray (>100 megaelectronvolts) pulsations from pulsar J1823-3021A in the globular cluster NGC 6624 with high significance (~7 sigma). Its gamma-ray luminosity L_gamma = (8.4 +/- 1.6)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

We report on a multi-wavelength study of the recently discovered X-ray transient XMMU J004243.6+412519 in M31, based on data collected with Swift and the 1.8-m Copernico Telescope at Cima Ekar in Asiago (Italy) between 2012 February and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-17 P. Esposito , S. E. Motta , F. Pintore , L. Zampieri , L. Tomasella

The existence of a population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic bulge is supported, along with other evidence, by the Fermi GeV excess, an anomalous {\gamma}-ray emission detected almost 15 years ago in the direction of the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 J. Berteaud , F. Calore , M. Clavel , J. Marvil , S. Hyman , F. K. Schinzel , M. Kerr

During a search for gamma-ray emission from NGC 3628 (Arp 317), two new unidentified gamma-ray sources, Fermi J1049.7+0435 and J1103.2+1145 have been discovered \cite{ATel}. The detections are made in data from the Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 Masaki Nishimichi , Takeshi Okuda , Masaki Mori , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens

We describe an image-based method that uses two radio criteria, compactness and spectral index, to identify promising pulsar candidates among Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unassociated sources. These criteria are applied to those radio…

We report our search for \gamma-ray emission in the energy range from 100 MeV to 300 GeV from four Accreting Millisecond Pulsars (AMPs), SAX J1808.4-3658, IGR J00291+5934, XTE J1814-338, and XTE J0929-314. The data are from four-year…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang

We report our identification of three gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray sources, 4FGL J0502.6+0036, 4FGL J1055.9+6507, and 4FGL J1708.2+5519, as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). They are listed in the latest Fermi-LAT source catalog as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Qiangmeng Huang , Ruoheng Yang

The persistent gamma-ray source 4FGL J0647.7-4418 is tentatively associated in the latest Fermi catalogue with the sub-dwarf O-type X-ray binary HD 49798. However, an AGN candidate is also mentioned as an alternative identification in…