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We present a correlative study between all unidentified EGRET sources at low Galactic latitudes and the newly discovered pulsars in the released portion of the Parkes multibeam radio survey. We note 14 positional coincidences: eight of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego F. Torres , Yousaf M. Butt , Fernando Camilo

The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi Large Area Telescope Sources (3FHL) reports the detection of 1556 objects at E > 10 GeV. However, 177 sources remain unassociated and 23 are associated with a ROSAT X-ray detection of unknown origin. Pointed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-07 S. Joffre , R. Silver , M. Rajagopal , M. Ajello , N. Torres-Albà , A. Pizzetti , S. Marchesi , A. Kaur

The design of spaceborne high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma-ray detectors depends on two principal factors: (1) the basic physics of detecting and measuring the properties of the gamma rays; and (2) the constraints of operating such a detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 David J. Thompson

With the aim of testing recent claims for a particularly strong correlation between ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), observed with the AGASA and the Yakutsk experiments, and a sample of BL Lacertae (BL Lacs), we here conduct a blind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego F. Torres , Stephen Reucroft , Olaf Reimer , Luis A. Anchordoqui

The recent discovery by Fermi/LAT of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma rays from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (NLS1s) made evident the existence of a third class of gamma-ray emitting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), after blazars and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Luigi Foschini

A comprehensive statistical analysis of the broadband properties of EGRET blazars is presented. This analysis includes sources identified as blazars in the Sowards-Emmerd publications. Using this sample of 122 sources, we find that there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. D. Bloom

In this paper we study two newly discovered classes of radio sources: the highly energetic, short-lived events, known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), and a new category of compact sources known as Fanaroff-Riley type 0 radio galaxies (FR0s).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Sergio Best , José Bazo

During its nine-year lifetime, the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) detected 1506 cosmic photons with measured energy E>10 GeV. Of this number, 187 are found within 1 degree of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Thompson , D. L. Bertsch , R. H. O'Neal

The optical identification of large number of X-ray sources such as those from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey is challenging with conventional spectroscopic follow-up observations. We investigate two ROSAT All-Sky Survey fields of size 10 * 10…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 J. Greiner , G. A. Richter

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the high-energy gamma-ray source 3EG J2006-2321. The flux of this source above 100 MeV is shown to be variable on time scales of days and months. Optical observations and careful examination of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. M. Wallace , J. P. Halpern , A. M. Magalhaes , D. J. Thompson

Multi-wavelength studies at radio, infrared, optical, X-ray, and TeV wavelengths have discovered probable counterparts to many Galactic sources of GeV emission detected by EGRET. These include pulsar wind nebulae, high mass X-ray binaries,…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL) provided spatial, spectral, and temporal properties for a large number of gamma-ray sources using a uniform analysis method. After correlating with the most-complete catalogs of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

According to radiative models, radio galaxies are predicted to produce gamma-rays from the earliest stages of their evolution onwards. The study of the high-energy emission from young radio sources is crucial for providing information on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Giacomo Principe , Leonardo Di Venere , Giulia Migliori , Monica Orienti , Filippo D'Ammando

Aims: During the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG)/ eROSITA all-sky surveys, X-ray sources close to the South Ecliptic Pole (SEP) are observed almost every 4 hours. We aim to identify the sources exhibiting the most significant long-term X-ray…

We study the origin of the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray background using the data from the Fermi telescope. To estimate the background level, we count photons at high Galactic latitudes |b|>60 degrees. Subtracting photons associated to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz

We present a study of the unidentified gamma-ray source 3EG J0542+2610. This source is spatially superposed to the supernova remnant G180.0-1.7, but its time variability makes unlikely a physical link. We have searched into the EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gustavo E. Romero , M. M. Kaufman Bernado , Jorge A. Combi , Diego F. Torres

We perform a blind search for the variability of the gamma-ray sky in the energy range E>1 GeV using 308 weeks of the Fermi-LAT data. We use the technique based on the comparison of the weekly photon counts and exposures in sky pixels by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-22 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

We compute the variation of the beaming fraction with the efficiency of high energy gamma-ray production in the outer gap pulsar model of Romani and Yadigaroglu. This allows us to correct the fluxes observed for pulsars in the EGRET band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 I. -A. Yadigaroglu , Roger W. Romani

We present X-ray and radio studies of sources which are brightabove 1 GeV (F_{>1GeV} > 4e-8 ph/cm^2/s. Only 11 out of ~30 of these gamma-ray sources have been identified with lower energy counterparts: 5 blazars and 6 pulsars. Three of…

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