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The prediction of solar flares is of practical and scientific interest; however, many machine learning methods used for this prediction task do not provide the physical explanations behind a model's performance. We made use of two recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Brandon Panos , Lucia Kleint , Jonas Zbinden

Most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope exhibit a delay of up to about 10 seconds between the trigger time of the hard X-ray signal as measured by the Fermi GBM and the onset of the MeV-GeV counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Gianluca Castignani , Dafne Guetta , Elena Pian , Lorenzo Amati , Simonetta Puccetti , Simone Dichiara

Using public \fermi LAT and \swift BAT observations, we constructed the first sample of blazars selected at both hard X-rays and gamma-rays. Studying its spectral properties, we find a luminosity dependence of the spectral slopes at both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 R. M. Sambruna , D. Donato , M. Ajello , L. Maraschi , the GSFC BAT Team

Blazars are known for their energetic multiwavelength flares from radio wavelengths to high-energy $\gamma$-rays. In this work, we study radio, optical, and $\gamma$-ray light curves of 145 bright blazars spanning up to 8~yr, to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-20 I. Liodakis , R. W. Romani , A. V. Filippenko , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead , W. Zheng

3C 454.3 is frequently observed in flaring state. The long term light curve of this source has been analysed with 9 year (August 2008 - July 2017) data from Fermi LAT detector. We have identified five flares and one quiescent state. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Avik Kumar Das , Raj Prince , Nayantara Gupta

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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…

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

A deep learning network, Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) network, is used in this work to predict whether the maximum flare class an active region (AR) will produce in the next 24 hours is class $\Gamma$. We considered $\Gamma$ are $\ge M$,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Xiantong Wang , Yang Chen , Gabor Toth , Ward B. Manchester , Tamas I. Gombosi , Alfred O. Hero , Zhenbang Jiao , Hu Sun , Meng Jin , Yang Liu

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointing toward the observer. They are notable for their flux variability at all observed wavelengths and timescales. Together with simultaneous measurements at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Hermann Stolte , Jonas Sinapius , Iftach Sadeh , Elisa Pueschel , Matthias Weidlich , David Berge

High-energy blazar light curves, in X-rays and beyond, have historically preferred a log-normal flux distribution, signifying multiplicative processes either in the jet itself or due to connection(s) with accretion. Here we present 18 year…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Agniva Roychowdhury

This paper presents a post hoc analysis of a deep learning-based full-disk solar flare prediction model. We used hourly full-disk line-of-sight magnetogram images and selected binary prediction mode to predict the occurrence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chetraj Pandey , Rafal A. Angryk , Manolis K. Georgoulis , Berkay Aydin

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

During its first six years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected >30 MeV gamma-ray emission from more than 40 solar flares, nearly a factor of 10 more than those detected by EGRET. These include detections of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Omodei , V. Petrosian , W. Liu , F. Rubio da Costa , Q. Chen , M. Pesce-Rollins , E. Grove , F. Longo

Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable…

We present a long short-term memory (LSTM) network for predicting whether an active region (AR) would produce a gamma-class flare within the next 24 hours. We consider three gamma classes, namely >=M5.0 class, >=M class, and >=C class, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-06 Hao Liu , Chang Liu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang

Although not designed primarily as a polarimeter, the \textit{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) has the potential to detect high degrees of linear polarization from some of the brightest gamma-ray sources. To achieve the needed accuracy in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Matteo Giomi , Rolf Bühler , Carmelo Sgrò , Francesco Longo , William Atwood

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is currently the most important facility for investigating the GeV $\gamma$-ray sky. With Fermi LAT more than three thousand $\gamma$-ray sources have been discovered so far. 1144 ($\sim40\%$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 G. Chiaro , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , M. Giroletti , D. J. Thompson , D. Bastieri

In the recently published 3FGL catalogue, the Fermi/LAT collaboration reports the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission from 3034 sources obtained after four years of observations. The nature of 1010 of those sources is unknown, whereas 2023…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 J. Lefaucheur , S. Pita

Blazars are an extreme subclass of active galactic nuclei. Their rapid variability, luminous brightness, superluminal motion, and high and variable polarization are probably due to a beaming effect. However, this beaming factor (or Doppler…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-21 J. H. Fan , J. H. Yang , H. B. Xiao , C. Lin , D. Constantin , G. Y. Luo , Z. Y. Pei , J. M. Hao , Y. W. Mao