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Blazars are known to emit a broad band emission from radio to gamma-rays with rapid time variations, particularly, in X- and gamma-rays. Synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering are thought to play an important role in emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kusunose , F. Takahara , H. Li

We study changes in the $\gamma$-ray intensity at very high energies observed from selected active galactic nuclei. Publicly available data collected by Cherenkov telescopes were examined by means of a simple method utilizing solely the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-15 Stanislav Stefanik , Dalibor Nosek

The EGRET telescope has repeatedly observed 3EG J1835+5918 as a bright and steady source of high-energy gamma-ray radiation which has not yet been indentified. EGRET data from CGRO observation cycle 1 to 7 have been reanalysed above 100 MeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 O. Reimer , K. T. S. Brazier , A. Carraminana , G. Kanbach , P. L. Nolan , D. J. Thompson

The large majority of EGRET point sources remain without an identified low-energy counterpart, and a large fraction of these sources are most likely extragalactic. Whatever the nature of the extragalactic EGRET unidentified sources, faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 V. Pavlidou , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , B. D. Fields , A. V. Olinto , C. Brown

We examine the long term (~10 years) gamma-ray variability of blazars observed by EGRET and Fermi and find that for six sources the average flux varied by more than an order of magnitude. For two of these sources (PKS 0208-512 and PKS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Ranjeev Misra , A. R. Rao , P. Sreekumar

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

A subset of the unidentified EGRET gamma-ray sources with no active galactic nucleus or other conspicuous counterpart appears to be concentrated at medium latitudes. Their long-term variability and their spatial distribution indicate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. A. Grenier , M. M. Kaufman Bernado , G. E. Romero

A way of examining a hypothetical non--zero $\gamma$--ray signal for the time changes is presented. The time variability of the recently observed $\gamma$--ray source PKS 2155--304 is discussed. Several measurements were found to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-26 Dalibor Nosek , Stanislav Stefanik , Jana Noskova

The INTEGRAL observatory has discovered a variety of hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane since its launch. Using GMRT, we have made repeated observations of these sources to search for the radio counterparts of seventeen of them at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pandey , R. K. Manchanda , A. P. Rao , P. Durouchoux , Ishwara-Chandra

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 jets of microquasars with high-mass stellar companions are exposed to the dense matter field of the stellar wind. We present estimates of the gamma-ray emission expected from the jet-wind hadronic interaction and we discuss the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gustavo E. Romero , Diego F. Torres , M. M. Kaufman Bernado , I. F. Mirabel

A large fraction of the anticipated source detections by the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST-LAT) will initially be unidentified. We argue that traditional approaches to identify individuals and/or populations of gamma ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Olaf Reimer , Diego F. Torres

A comprehensive search for variable and transient radio sources has been conducted using ~55,000 snapshot images of the FIRST survey. We present an analysis leading to the discovery of 1,627 variable and transient objects down to mJy levels…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan , David J. Helfand , Richard L. White , Robert H. Becker

The recent detection of gamma-ray emission from four radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies suggests that the engine driving the AGN activity of these objects share some similarities with that of blazars, namely the presence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Calderone , L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , M. Colpi , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , R. Decarli , G. Tagliaferri

Cosmic gamma rays provide insight into some of the most dynamic processes in the Universe. At the dawn of a new generation of gamma-ray telescopes, this review summarizes results from the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D J Thompson

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 2011-05-05 P. Sreekumar

We present multi-frequency radio data for a sample of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. We first focus on the sub-class of gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, studying the long-term radio variability of five sources and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-10 Xi Shao , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens , Minfeng Gu , Timothy J. Galvin , Minh T. Huynh

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

It is generally believed that the variability of photospheric emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) traces that of the jet power. This work further investigates the variability of photospheric emission in a variable jet. By setting a constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Kai Wang , Da-Bin Lin , Yun Wang , Lu-yao Jiang , Shen-Shi Du , Xiao-Yan Li , Jia Ren , Xiang-gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

In the course of its operation, the EGRET experiment detected high-energy gamma ray sources at energies above 100 MeV over the whole sky. In this communication, we search for large-scale anisotropy patterns among the catalogued EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Anchordoqui , Thomas McCauley , Thomas Paul , Olaf Reimer , Diego F. Torres