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We present a partial-sky survey of the radio continuum at 2.3 GHz within the scope of the Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM) project, an observational program conceived and developed to reveal the large-scale properties of Galactic synchrotron…

We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from the BATSE 3B catalog of 1122 gamma-ray bursts, and find no evidence for clustering on any scale. These constraints bridge the entire range from small scales (which probe source clustering and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Dieter Hartmann , Michael Briggs , Charles Meegan

All-Sky-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 100 keV to a few hundred MeV, recently proposed as the "Fast" (F) mission of the European Space Agency for a launch in 2028 to an L2 orbit. The scientific…

Gamma-ray astronomy presents an extraordinary scientific potential for the study of the most powerful sources and the most violent events in the Universe. In order to take full advantage of this potential, the next generation of…

Results are reported from the first flight of a new balloon-borne instrument, BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement), designed to search for cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. The instrument uses a cryogenic differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Tucker , H. P. Gush , M. Halpern , I. Shinkoda , W. Towlson

We present systematic spectral analyses of GRBs detected with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) onboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) during its entire nine years of operation. This catalog contains two types of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-02 A. Goldstein , R. D. Preece , R. S. Mallozzi , M. S. Briggs , G. J. Fishman , C. Kouveliotou , W. S. Pacieses , J. M. Burgess

Possibly the only unambiguous verification that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are at cosmological distances would be the observation of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed burst. Each images would arrive at a different time, but exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. A. Grossman , M. A. Nowak

The Line Emission Mapper (LEM) is an X-ray Probe with with spectral resolution ~2 eV FWHM from 0.2 to 2.5 keV and effective area >2,500 cm$^2$ at 1 keV, covering a 33 arcmin diameter Field of View with 15 arcsec angular resolution, capable…

The results of the first extragalactic gamma-ray survey by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are presented. The survey comprises 2720 hours of very high-energy gamma-ray observations of the extragalactic sky, recorded with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-01 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlöhr , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , J. Borowska , M. Bouyahiaoui , F. Bradascio , R. Brose , A. Brown , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger-Scheidlin , T. Bylund , S. Casanova , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , P. Cristofari , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , I. D. Davids , J. Devin , J. Djuvsland , A. Dmytriiev , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , S. Fegan , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , S. Gabici , J. F. Glicenstein , J. Glombitza , P. Goswami , G. Grolleron , L. Haerer , B. Heß , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , Zhiqiu Huang , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , A. Jardin-Blicq , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyński , R. Khatoon , B. Khélifi , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , A. Kundu , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , A. Mehta , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , P. O'Brien , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , U. Pensec , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Ravikularaman , M. Regeard , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , I. Reis , H. Ren , B. Reville , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , J. Schäfer , F. Schüssler , J. N. S. Shapopi , A. Sharma , H. Sol , S. Spencer , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , A. Thakur , M. Tsirou , C. van Eldik , M. Vecchi , C. Venter , J. Vink , H. J. Völk , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , N. Żywucka

Gravitational-wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) is a space-borne instrument dedicated to monitoring high-energy transients, including Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) and Terrestrial Electron Beams…

We investigate the large-scale angular distribution of the short-Gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) from BATSE experiment, using a new coordinates-free method. The analyses performed take into account the angular correlations induced by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Bernui , I. S. Ferreira , C. A. Wuensche

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

MoonBEAM is a SmallSat concept placed in cislunar orbit developed to study the progenitors and multimessenger/multiwavelength signals of transient relativistic jets and outflows and determine the conditions that lead to the launching of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-01 C. Fletcher , C. M. Hui , A. Goldstein , The MoonBEAM Team

We discuss the preliminary results of spectral analysis simulations involving anticipated correlated multi-wavelength observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Swift's Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Stamatikos , Takanori Sakamoto , David L. Band

We report ~ 600 days of BATSE earth-occultation observations of the total gamma-ray (30 keV to 1.7 MeV) emission from the Crab nebula, between 1991 May 24 (TJD 8400) and 1994 October 2 (TJD 9627). Lightcurves from 35-100, 100-200, 200-300,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. C. Ling , Wm. A. Wheaton

We present the first sky maps from the BEAST (Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope) experiment. BEAST consists of a 2.2 meter off axis Gregorian telescope fed by a cryogenic millimeter wavelength focal plane currently…

The observation of cosmic gamma-rays from the ground is based upon the detection of gamma-ray initiated air showers. At energies between approximately $10^{11}$ eV and $10^{13}$ eV, the imaging air Cherenkov technique is a particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 D. Horns

The cosmological principle, asserting large-scale homogeneity and isotropy, underpins the standard model of cosmology. Testing its validity using independent astronomical probes remains crucial for understanding the global structure of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Debosi Mondal , Biswajit Pandey , Amit Mondal

We present the Bayesian Global Sky Model (B-GSM), a new absolutely calibrated model of the diffuse Galactic foreground at frequencies below 408 MHz. We assemble a dataset of publicly available diffuse emission maps at frequencies between 45…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 George Carter , Will Handley , Mark Ashdown , Nima Razavi-Ghods