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We report on the results of deep X-ray follow-up observations of four unidentified Fermi/LAT gamma-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes using Suzaku. The studied objects were detected with high significance during the first 3 months of…

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50% of the sources have no clear association with a likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 David Salvetti , Graziano Chiaro , Giovanni La Mura , David J. Thompson

The dark matter halo of the Milky Way is expected to contain an abundance of smaller subhalos. These subhalos can be dense and produce potentially observable fluxes of gamma rays. In this paper, we search for dark matter subhalo candidates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper , Matthew R. Buckley

All-sky explorations by Fermi-LAT have revolutionized our view of the gamma-ray sky. While its ongoing all-sky survey counts thousands of sources, essential issues related to the nature of unassociated sources call for sensitive all-sky…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Eugenio Bottacini , Marco Ajello

The vast majority of the celestial gamma-ray sources detected so far have not yet been identified with secure counterparts at other wavelenghts. Here we report the preliminary evidence of a probable association between galaxy clusters and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergio Colafrancesco

The Fermi-LAT has detected more than 3000 sources in the GeV $\gamma$-ray regime. The majority are extra-galactic and these sources are dominated by blazars. However, $\sim28$ per cent of the sources in Fermi 3LAC are listed as blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 L. Klindt , B. van Soelen , P. J. Meintjes , P. Väisänen

The third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the $\gamma$-ray emission of those objects is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 F. K. Schinzel , L. Petrov , G. B. Taylor , P. G. Edwards

The second Fermi-LAT source catalog (2FGL) is the deepest all-sky survey available in the gamma-ray band. It contains 1873 sources, of which 576 remain unassociated. Machine-learning algorithms can be trained on the gamma-ray properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-29 M. Doert , M. Errando

We propose that some of the high-latitude unidentified EGRET gamma-ray sources could be the result of gravitational lensing amplification of the innermost regions of distant, faint, active galactic nuclei. These objects have gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego F. Torres , Gustavo E. Romero , Ernesto F. Eiroa

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

Although they were discovered more than 25 years ago, gamma-ray bursts are still a mystery. Even their characteristic distance is highly uncertain. All that we can be confident about is that they involve compact objects and relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin J. Rees

Our survey of the fourth $\mathit{Fermi}$ Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) unassociated gamma-ray source regions using the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) aboard the Neil Gehrels $\mathit{Swift}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-17 Kyle D. Neumann , Abraham D. Falcone , Stephen DiKerby , Sierra Deppe , Elizabeth C. Ferrara , Jamie A. Kennea , Brad Cenko , Eric Grove

A comprehensive investigation of logN-logS distributions of gamma-ray sources discovered by EGRET has been performed for subsequent use in population studies. Existing models explaining the spatial arrangement of unidentified sources do not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Reimer , D. L. Bertsch

Pulsars are factories of relativistic electrons and positrons that propagate away from the pulsar, permeating later our Galaxy. The acceleration and propagation of these particles are a matter of intense debate. In the last few years, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-15 R. López-Coto , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , F. Aharonian , E. Amato , J. Hinton

Statistical studies indicate that the 271 point sources of high-energy gamma rays belong to two groups: a Galactic population and an isotropic extragalactic population. Many unidentified extragalactic sources are certainly blazars, and it…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. M. Wallace , S. D. Bloom , M. S. Lewis

Gamma rays from young pulsars and milli-second pulsars are expected to contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray emission measured by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) at high latitudes. We derive the contribution of the pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-17 Francesca Calore , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

The present status and understanding of the "spectral sequence" of blazars is discussed in the perspective of the upcoming GLAST launch. The vast improvement in sensitivity will allow to i) determine more objectively the "average" gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 L. Maraschi , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio

As the highest-energy photons, gamma rays have an inherent interest to astrophysicists and particle physicists studying high-energy, nonthermal processes. Gamma-ray telescopes complement those at other wavelengths, especially radio,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David J. Thompson

An excess of $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic Center (GC) region with respect to predictions based on a variety of interstellar emission models and $\gamma$-ray source catalogs has been found by many groups using data from the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 LAT Collaboration

The gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. J. Thompson