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In this letter, we introduce a new method of image stacking to directly study the undetected but possible gamma-ray point sources. Applying the method to the Australia Telescope 20 GHz Survey (AT20G) sources which have not been detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Ming Zhou , Jiancheng Wang , Xiaoyan Gao

The diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) has been derived by various groups from observations by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO). The derived EGRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-05 T. A. Porter , W. B. Atwood , B. Baughman , R. P. Johnson

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

The diffuse galactic gamma-ray spectrum measured by the EGRET experiment \citep{Hunter:1997} are interpreted within a scenario in which cosmic rays (CRs) are injected by three different kind of sources, (i) supernovae (SN) which explode…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabrina Casanova , Peter L. Biermann , Ralph Engel , Athina Meli , Ralf Ulrich

A large fraction of the AGNs detected by EGRET exhibit strong variability in many wavebands- from radio to the highest energy gamma-rays observed. The origin of the transient emission in blazars is presumably associated with relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amir Levinson

The arguments suggesting an association between the sources of cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are presented. Recent GRB and UHECR observations are shown to strengthen these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Waxman

The field of gamma ray astronomy relies heavily on the statistical analysis of data. Because of the paucity of data, and the often large errors associated with detecting gamma rays, analysis and interpretation of the data require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. F. Tompkins

The understanding of the nature of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is one of the most intriguing open questions for current and future observatories. These particles are expected to be accelerated in extragalactic sources. Because of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 Mariangela Settimo

Revealing the nature of unassociated high-energy (> 100 MeV) gamma-ray sources remains a challenge 35 years after their discovery. Of the 934 gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitude (|b| > 15 degrees) in the First Fermi-LAT catalogue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-25 N. Mirabal , D. Nieto , S. Pardo

In 1989, an air-borne experiments (VEGA experiment) aiming at the detection of a few 10 GeV $\gamma$-ray were carried out. In these experiments, nine point-source candidates along the Galactic plane were reported. In these candidates, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ryoji Enomoto

The evidence for spectral features in gamma-ray bursts is summarized. As a guide for evaluating the evidence, the properties of gamma-ray detectors and the methods of analyzing gamma-ray spectra are reviewed. In the 1980's, observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael S. Briggs

The development of techniques whereby gamma rays of energy 100 GeV and above can be studied from the ground, using indirect, but sensitive, techniques has opened up a new area of high energy photon astronomy. The most exciting result that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Horan , T. C. Weekes

A large fraction of the recently discovered Galactic Very High Energy (VHE) source population remains unidentified to date. VHE gamma-ray emission traces high energy particles in these sources, but for example in case of hadronic processes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerd Pühlhofer

The physics results of high energy gamma-ray astronomy are reported, emphasizing recent achievements with ground-based detectors. This includes some of the instrumental developments and latest projects. The fundamental contribution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. Voelk

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E > 30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Yu. A. Golubkov , M. Yu. Khlopov

The distribution on the sky of unidentified sources at the highest energies where such a population is evident is investigated. For this purpose, sources without identification in the first Fermi-LAT catalog >10 GeV (1FHL) that are good…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-08 Wilfried F. Domainko

This article aims to introduced a new distribution named as extended xgamma (EXg) distribution. This generalization is derived from xgamma distribution (Xg), a special finite mixture of exponential and gamma distributions [see, Sen et al.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Mahendra Saha , Abhimanyu Singh Yadav , Arvind Pandey , Shivanshi Shukla , Sudhansu S Maiti

Gamma ray burst sources are isotropically distributed. They could be located at distances $\sim 1000$ AU. (Katz \cite{JK92}) GRB signals have many narrow peaks that are unresolved at the millisecond time resolution of existing observations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank D. Smith

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,…