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Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has become an active astrophysical discipline with four confirmed sources of TeV gamma rays, two plerionic supernova remnants (SNRs) and two BL Lac objects (BL Lacs). An additional nine objects (one plerion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Catanese

We present a catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the first 7 years of data using the Pass 8 event-level analysis. This is the Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources (3FHL), containing 1556…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 LAT Collaboration

We started a follow-up investigation of the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey objects with declination >-10 deg. We undertook a survey with the EVN at 5GHz to make the first images of a complete sample of weak blazars, aiming at a comparison…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-29 F. Mantovani , M. Bondi , K. -H. Mack , W. Alef , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

We recently identified the blazar-like radio source G74.87+1.22 (B2013+370) as the counterpart of the high-energy gamma-ray source 3EG J2016+3657 in the Galactic plane. However, since most blazar identifications of EGRET sources are only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Halpern , M. Eracleous , R. Mukherjee , E. V. Gotthelf

3EG J1835+5918 is the brightest of the so-called unidentified EGRET sources at intermediate galactic latitude (l,b)=(89,25). We obtained complete radio, optical, and X-ray coverage of its error box, discovering a faint ultrasoft X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Mirabal , J. Halpern , R. Mukherjee , E. Gotthelf , F. Camilo

The high-lights of ground-based very-high-energy (VHE, $E>100$ GeV) gamma-ray astronomy are reviewed. The summary covers both Galactic and extra-galactic sources. A total of at least 70 sources are currently known. Implications for our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Horns

We report EGRET upper limits on the high-energy gamma-ray emission from clusters of galaxies. EGRET observations between 1991 and 2000 were analyzed at positions of 58 individual clusters from a flux-limited sample of nearby X-ray bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Reimer , M. Pohl , P. Sreekumar , J. R. Mattox

We perform a search for sources of gamma-rays with energies E>100 GeV at low Galactic latitudes |b|<10 deg using the data of Fermi telescope. To separate compact gamma-ray sources from the diffuse emission from the Galaxy, we use the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-02 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

The EGRET instrument has measured detailed photon spectra between 30 MeV and 10 GeV, which are represented by means of single power-law fits for sources in the 3EG catalog. However, various sources show indications of spectral cutoffs at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Reimer , D. L. Bertsch

The spatial extension of a gamma-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties as well as its potential multi-wavelength counterpart. The capability to spatially resolve gamma-ray sources is greatly improved by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-12 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. M. Cohen , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , M. -H. Grondin , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , A. K. Harding , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , G. Jóhannesson , T. Kamae , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Raino , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , C. Sgro , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , D. Tak , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood , M. Wood

The high energy gamma ray sources provided by experiment EGRET on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory are examined, testing Project GRAND's ability to detect primary gamma rays by means of studying secondary muons. There is ~1.5% chance that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Carpenter , S. Desch , T. F. Lin , J. Poirier , A. Roesch

The broad-line radio galaxy 3C111 has been suggested as the counterpart of the gamma-ray source 3EGJ0416+3650. While 3C111 meets most of the criteria for a high-probability identification, like a bright flat-spectrum radio core and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. C. Hartman , M. Kadler , J. Tueller

Dark matter annihilations taking place in nearby subhalos could appear as gamma-ray sources without detectable counterparts at other wavelengths. In this study, we consider the collection of unassociated gamma-ray sources reported by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-23 Bridget Bertoni , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Using three epochs of VLA observations of the Galactic Plane in the first quadrant taken ~15 years apart, we have conducted a search for a population of variable Galactic radio emitters in the flux density range 1-100 mJy at 6 cm. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert H. Becker , David J. Helfand , Richard L. White , Deanne D. Proctor

Many early-type stars are in systems; some of them have been indicated as putative high-energy emitters. The radiation is expected to be produced at the region where two stellar winds collide. Compelling evidence of such emission was found…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-04 Paula Benaglia

A tight correlation between gamma-ray and radio emission is found for a sample of BL Lacertae (BL Lac) objects detected by Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) and the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET). The gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Fan Li , Xinwu Cao

The possible associations between the microquasars LS 5039 and LS I +61 303 and the EGRET sources 3EG J1824-1514 and 3EG J0241+6103 suggest that microquasars could also be sources of high-energy gamma-rays. In this work, we present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 V. Bosch-Ramon , J. M. Paredes

We present an X-ray analysis of fourteen nearby (z < 0.044) AGN in low mass galaxies (M_* <= 5*10^9 Msun) selected based on their optical variability (Baldassare et al. 2020). Comparing and contrasting different AGN selection techniques in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander Messick , Vivienne Baldassare , Marla Geha , Jenny Greene

Structure formation in the intergalactic medium (IGM) produces large-scale, collisionless shock waves, where electrons can accelerate to highly relativistic energies. Such electrons can Compton scatter cosmic microwave background photons up…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uri Keshet , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

A significant fraction (~30%) of the high-energy gamma-ray sources listed in the second Fermi LAT catalog (2FGL) are still of unknown origin, being not yet associated with counterparts at low energies. We recently developed a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , N. Masetti , M. Giroletti , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith , S. Funk