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Approximately one-third of the gamma-ray sources in the third Fermi-LAT catalog are unidentified or unassociated with objects at other wavelengths. Observations with Swift-XRT have yielded possible counterparts in $\sim$30% of these source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Amanpreet Kaur , Abraham D Falcone , Michael D Stroh , Jamie A Kennea , Elizabeth C Ferrara

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques are increasingly used across astrophysics, enabled by the growing availability of data and improved acquisition methods. These approaches now support tasks from redshift estimation to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 E. Oukacha , Y. Becherini

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of extragalactic origin. Classifying repeating FRBs is essential for understanding their emission mechanisms, but remains challenging due to their short durations, high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 An-Chieh Hsu , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Tomoki Wada , Bjorn Jasper Raquel

Several correlations among Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) quantities, both in the prompt and afterglow emissions, have been established during the last decades, thus enabling the standardization of GRBs as cosmological probes. Since GRBs are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-29 Giada Bargiacchi , Maria Giovanna Dainotti , Salvatore Capozziello

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

In order to obtain an overview of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we need a full sample. In this paper, we collected 6289 GRBs (from GRB 910421 to GRB 160509A) from the literature, including prompt emission, afterglow and host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Feifei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Fuxiang Liu , Bin Liao , Yu Liu , Yating Chai , Lei Xia

The latest determination of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) radiation by Fermi is compared with the theoretical prediction of the blazar component by Inoue & Totani (2009; hereafter IT09). The Fermi EGRB spectrum is in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-05 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Tomonori Totani , Susumu Inoue , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Jun Kataoka , Rie Sato

Blazars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the fastest objects known so far. The radiation we see from these sources originates in a jet of similar aperture angle, and we think it is the result of the conversion of some of the jet kinetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Ghisellini

Using an established classification technique, we leverage standard observations and analyses to predict the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). This technique, utilizing support vector machine (SVM) statistics, provides a more nuanced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-15 P. Nuessle , J. L. Racusin , N. E. White

Blazars are the most violent steady/recurrent sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission in the known Universe. They are prominent emitters of electromagnetic radiation throughout the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The observable radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Markus Boettcher

We study a sample of 30 high-redshift blazars ($z>2.5$) by means of spectra and the radiation mechanism with Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray observations spanning 15 years. Three models -- the power law, power law with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are one of the most energetic phenomena in the cosmos, whose study probes physics extremes beyond the reach of laboratories on Earth. Our quest to unravel the origin of these events and understand their underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Michela Negro , Nicoló Cibrario , Eric Burns , Joshua Wood , Adam Goldstein , Tito Dal Canton

Among the ~2157 unassociated sources in the third data release (DR3) of the fourth Fermi catalog, ~1200 were observed with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory pointed instruments. These observations yielded 238 high S/N X-ray sources within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Amanpreet Kaur , Stephen Kerby , Abraham D. Falcone

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 present the results of our follow-up observation program of gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. 26 blazars and 39 sources unidentified at other wavelengths were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mai Fujiwara , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Nobuyuki Ienaka

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are typically classified into long and short GRBs based on their durations. However, there is a significant overlapping in the duration distributions of these two categories. In this paper, we apply the unsupervised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Si-Yuan Zhu , Wan-Peng Sun , Da-Ling Ma , Fu-Wen Zhang

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) from the infrared (IR) through the ultraviolet (UV) is dominated by emission from stars, either directly or through absorption and reradiation by dust. It can thus give information on the star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Justin D. Finke

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful objects in the Universe. Although they represent a significant fraction of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky, they are not commonly detected in gamma-rays. High redshift (z>2) objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , D. Dallacasa , T. Venturi , J. Finke , M. Ajello

Blazars, including BL Lacs and FSRQs, are the most luminous extragalactic {\gamma}-ray sources. They account for about 56% of the sources listed in the recent Fermi-LAT catalog (4FGL-DR4). The optical and UV spectra of BL Lacs are nearly…