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Context. A considerable fraction of the gamma-ray sources discovered with the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) remain unidentified. The EGRET sources that have been properly identified are either pulsars or variable sources…

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

The EGRET source 3EG J1835+5918 is the brightest and most accurately positioned of the as-yet unidentified high-energy gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitude (l,b=89,25). We present a multiwavelength study of the region around it,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Mirabal , J. P. Halpern , M. Eracleous , R. H. Becker

We present a method to assess the reliability of the identification of EGRET sources with extragalactic radio sources. We verify that EGRET is detecting the blazar class of AGN. However, many published identifications are found to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. R. Mattox , J. Schachter , L. Molnar , R. C. Hartman , A. R. Patnaik

The 3rd EGRET Catalog of High-energy Gamma-ray Sources contains 170 unidentified sources, and there is great interest in the nature of these sources. One means of determining source class is the study of flux variability on time scales of…

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

Using survey data, we have re-evaluated the correlation of flat spectrum radio sources with EGRET sources in the Northern sky. A likelihood analysis incorporating the radio and X-ray properties and the Gamma-ray source localization is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David Sowards-Emmerd , Roger W. Romani , Peter F. Michelson

We have conducted a multiwavelength study of several radio sources within or near the error boxes of EGRET unidentified sources at mid to high Galactic latitude, under the hypothesis that the radio sources are blazars and are thus the best…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. D. Bloom , R. C. Hartman , H. Terasranta , M. Tornikoski , E. Valtaoja

B2013+370 and B2023+336 are two blazars at low-galactic latitude that were previously proposed to be the counterparts for the EGRET unidentified sources, 3EG J2016+3657 and 3EG J2027+3429. Gamma-ray emission associated with the EGRET…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Kara , M. Errando , W. Max-Moerbeck , E. Aliu , M. Bottcher , P. Fortin , J. P. Halpern , R. Mukherjee , A. C. S. Readhead , J. L. Richards

We have conducted a radio pulsar survey of 56 unidentified gamma-ray sources from the 3rd EGRET catalog which are at intermediate Galactic latitudes (5 deg. < |b| < 73 deg.). For each source, four interleaved 35-minute pointings were made…

The limited angular resolution of gamma-ray telescopes prevents the straight identification of the majority of the sources detected so far. This is particularly true for the low latitude, probably galactic ones, only 10 % of which has been…

Most counterparts of the identified low-latitude gamma-ray sources are Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs). They are characterized by an extremely high value of the X/optical flux ratio, therefore a systematic X-ray/optical coverage of the fields…

We present a catalog of point gamma-ray sources detected by the EGRET detector aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We have used the whole gamma-ray dataset of reprocessed photons at energies above 100 MeV together with new Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Marc Casandjian , Isabelle A. Grenier

The identity of the persistent EGRET sources in the Galactic plane is largely a mystery. For one of these, 3EG J2227+6122, our complete census of X-ray and radio sources in its error circle reveals a remarkable superposition of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Halpern , E. V. Gotthelf , K. M. Leighly , D. J. Helfand

The 3rd EGRET catalogue lists 271 sources and provides an identification for 101 of them. Thus, the unidentified sources are the majority in the gamma-ray sky, as we currently know it. Solving the mystery of the unidentified gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. Caraveo

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

More than half the sources in the Third EGRET (3EG) catalog have no firmly established counterparts at other wavelengths and are unidentified. Some of these unidentified sources have remained a mystery since the first surveys of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Mukherjee , J. P. Halpern

We discuss the nature of the unidentified EGRET source 3EG J1621+8203. In an effort to identify the gamma-ray source, we have examined X-ray images of the field from ROSAT PSPC, ROSAT HRI, and ASCA GIS. Of the several faint X-ray point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mukherjee , J. Halpern , N. Mirabal , E. V. Gotthelf

A review of the main characteristics of low-latitude sources in the third EGRET catalog is presented. There are 75 unidentified gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET at less than 10 degrees from the galactic plane. About a half of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo E. Romero

Studying unidentified {\gamma}-ray sources is important as they may hide new discoveries. We conducted a multiwavelength analysis of 13 unidentified Fermi-LAT sources in the 3FGL catalog that have no known counterparts (Unidentified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Jean Damascène Mbarubucyeye , Felicia Krauß , Pheneas Nkundabakura
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