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1. A highly-compact and ultra-fast homogeneous electromagnetic calorimeter based on oriented lead tungstate crystals

Author: L. Bandiera, V. G. Baryshevsky, N. Canale, S. Carsi, S. Cutini, F. Davì, D. De Salvador, A. Gianoli, V. Guidi, V. Haurylavets, M. Korjik, A. S. Lobko, L. Malagutti, A. Mazzolari, L. Montalto, P. Monti Guarnieri, M. Moulson, R. Negrello, G. Paternò, M. Presti, D. Rinaldi, M. Romagnoni, A. Selmi, F. Sgarbossa, M. Soldani, A. Sytov, V. V. Tikhomirov, and E. Vallazza
Subjects: channeling, crystals, electromagnetic calorimeter, inorganic scintillator, strong field, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract: Progress in high-energy physics has been closely tied to the development of high-performance electromagnetic calorimeters. Recent experiments have demonstrated the possibility to significantly accelerate the development of electromagnetic showers inside scintillating crystals typically used in homogeneous calorimeters based on scintillating crystals when the incident beam is aligned with a crystallographic axis to within a few mrad. In particular, a reduction of the radiation length has been measured when ultrarelativistic electron and photon beams were incident on a high-Z scintillator crystal along one of its main axes. Here, we propose the possibility to exploit this physical effect for the design of a new type of compact e.m. calorimeter, based on oriented ultra-fast lead tungstate (PWO-UF) crystals, with a significant reduction in the depth needed to contain electromagnetic showers produced by high-energy particles with respect to the state-of-the-art. We report results from tests of the crystallographic quality of PWO-UF samples via high-resolution X-ray diffraction and photoelastic analysis. We then describe a proof-of-concept calorimeter geometry defined with a Geant4 model including the shower development in oriented crystals. Finally, we discuss the experimental techniques needed for the realization of a matrix of scintillator crystals oriented along a specific crystallographic direction. Since the angular acceptance for e.m. shower acceleration depends little on the particle energy, while the decrease of the shower length remains pronounced at very high energy, an oriented crystal calorimeter will open the way for applications at the maximum energies achievable in current and future experiments. Such applications span from forward calorimeters, to compact beam dumps for the search for light dark matter, to source-pointing space-borne γ-ray telescopes, to decrease the size and the cost of the calorimeter needed to fully contain e.m. showers initiated by GeV to TeV particles.
Published: 2023
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2. Periodic Gamma-Ray Modulation of the Blazar PG 1553+113 Confirmed by Fermi-LAT and Multiwavelength Observations

Author: S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, P. Bruel, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, P. A. Caraveo, F. Casaburo, E. Cavazzuti, C. C. Cheung, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, G. Cozzolongo, P. Cristarella Orestano, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, N. Di Lalla, F. Dirirsa, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Fiori, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, S. Garrappa, D. Gasparrini, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, E. Hays, D. Horan, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, M. Laurenti, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, L. Marcotulli, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, M. Perri, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, P. M. Saz Parkinson, L. Scotton, D. Serini, A. Sesana, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, M. N. Takahashi, D. Tak, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, F. Verrecchia, and G. Zaharijas
Subjects: Active galactic nuclei, Blazars, Gamma-rays, Gamma-ray sources, Gamma-ray telescopes, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: A 2.1 yr periodic oscillation of the gamma-ray flux from the blazar PG 1553+113 has previously been tentatively identified in ∼7 yr of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. After 15 yr of Fermi sky-survey observations, doubling the total time range, we report >7 cycle gamma-ray modulation with an estimated significance of 4 σ against stochastic red noise. Independent determinations of oscillation period and phase in the earlier and the new data are in close agreement (chance probability
Published: 2024
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3. Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow

Author: S. Lesage, P. Veres, M. S. Briggs, A. Goldstein, D. Kocevski, E. Burns, C. A. Wilson-Hodge, P. N. Bhat, D. Huppenkothen, C. L. Fryer, R. Hamburg, J. Racusin, E. Bissaldi, W. H. Cleveland, S. Dalessi, C. Fletcher, M. M. Giles, B. A. Hristov, C. M. Hui, B. Mailyan, C. Malacaria, S. Poolakkil, O. J. Roberts, A. von Kienlin, J. Wood, M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, M. G. Baring, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, P. Bruel, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chiaro, N. Cibrario, S. Ciprini, P. Cristarella Orestano, M. Crnogorcevic, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, S. De Gaetano, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, H. Fleischhack, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, G. Galanti, V. Gammaldi, F. Gargano, C. Gasbarra, D. Gasparrini, S. Germani, F. Giacchino, N. Giglietto, R. Gill, M. Giroletti, J. Granot, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, X. Hou, M. Kuss, L. Latronico, A. Laviron, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, L. Lorusso, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, G. Panzarini, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, R. Pillera, F. Piron, H. Poon, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, F. Ryde, M. Sánchez-Conde, P. M. Saz Parkinson, L. Scotton, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, V. Sharma, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, T. Venters, Z. Wadiasingh, K. Wood, and G. Zaharijas
Subjects: Gamma-ray bursts, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM). This GRB has continuous prompt emission lasting more than 600 s, which smoothly transitions to afterglow emission visible in the Fermi-GBM energy range (8 keV–40 MeV), and total energetics higher than any other burst in the Fermi-GBM sample. By using a variety of new and existing analysis techniques we probe the spectral and temporal evolution of GRB 221009A. We find no emission prior to the Fermi-GBM trigger time ( t _0 ; 2022 October 9 at 13:16:59.99 UTC), indicating that this is the time of prompt emission onset. The triggering pulse exhibits distinct spectral and temporal properties suggestive of the thermal, photospheric emission of shock breakout, with significant emission up to ∼15 MeV. We characterize the onset of external shock at t _0 + 600 s and find evidence of a plateau region in the early-afterglow phase, which transitions to a slope consistent with Swift-XRT afterglow measurements. We place the total energetics of GRB 221009A in context with the rest of the Fermi-GBM sample and find that this GRB has the highest total isotropic-equivalent energy ( E _γ _,iso = 1.0 × 10 ^55 erg) and second highest isotropic-equivalent luminosity ( L _γ _,iso = 9.9 × 10 ^53 erg s ^–1 ) based on its redshift of z = 0.151. These extreme energetics are what allowed us to observe the continuously emitting central engine of Fermi-GBM from the beginning of the prompt emission phase through the onset of early afterglow.
Published: 2023
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4. The Fermi-LAT Lightcurve Repository

Author: S. Abdollahi, M. Ajello, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. Bonino, A. Brill, P. Bruel, E. Burns, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, N. Cibrario, S. Ciprini, P. Cristarella Orestano, M. Crnogorcevic, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, S. De Gaetano, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, V. Fallah Ramazani, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Fiori, H. Fleischhack, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, V. Gammaldi, F. Gargano, S. Garrappa, C. Gasbarra, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, E. Hays, D. Horan, X. Hou, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kerr, D. Kocevski, M. Kuss, L. Latronico, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, L. Lorusso, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, G. Panzarini, J. S. Perkins, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, R. Pillera, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, M. Sánchez-Conde, P. M. Saz Parkinson, Jeff Scargle, L. Scotton, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, T. Venters, Z. Wadiasingh, S. Wagner, and K. Wood
Subjects: Gamma-ray astronomy, Active galactic nuclei, Light curves, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) lightcurve repository (LCR) is a publicly available, continually updated library of gamma-ray lightcurves of variable Fermi-LAT sources generated over multiple timescales. The Fermi-LAT LCR aims to provide publication-quality lightcurves binned on timescales of 3, 7, and 30 days for 1525 sources deemed variable in the source catalog of the first 10 yr of Fermi-LAT observations. The repository consists of lightcurves generated through full likelihood analyses that model the sources and the surrounding region, providing fluxes and photon indices for each time bin. The LCR is intended as a resource for the time-domain and multimessenger communities by allowing users to search LAT data quickly to identify correlated variability and flaring emission episodes from gamma-ray sources. We describe the sample selection and analysis employed by the LCR and provide an overview of the associated data access portal.
Published: 2023
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5. The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-Ray Pulsars

Author: D. A. Smith, S. Abdollahi, M. Ajello, M. Bailes, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, M. G. Baring, C. Bassa, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, B. Bhattacharyya, E. Bissaldi, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, M. Burgay, T. H. Burnett, R. A. Cameron, F. Camilo, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, C. J. Clark, I. Cognard, A. Corongiu, P. Cristarella Orestano, M. Crnogorcevic, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, M. E. DeCesar, S. De Gaetano, R. de Menezes, J. Deneva, F. de Palma, N. Di Lalla, F. Dirirsa, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, D. Dumora, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Fiori, H. Fleischhack, C. Flynn, A. Franckowiak, P. C. C. Freire, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, G. Galanti, V. Gammaldi, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, F. Giacchino, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, A. K. Harding, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, X. Hou, F. Jankowski, R. P. Johnson, T. J. Johnson, S. Johnston, J. Kataoka, M. J. Keith, M. Kerr, M. Kramer, M. Kuss, L. Latronico, S.-H. Lee, D. Li, J. Li, B. Limyansky, F. Longo, F. Loparco, L. Lorusso, M. N. Lovellette, M. Lower, P. Lubrano, A. G. Lyne, Y. Maan, S. Maldera, R. N. Manchester, A. Manfreda, M. Marelli, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, M. Mickaliger, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, M. Negro, R. Nemmen, L. Nieder, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Palatiello, D. Paneque, G. Panzarini, A. Parthasarathy, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, R. Pillera, H. Poon, T. A. Porter, A. Possenti, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, N. Renault-Tinacci, R. W. Romani, M. Sánchez-Conde, P. M. Saz Parkinson, L. Scotton, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, R. Shannon, V. Sharma, Z. Shen, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, B. W. Stappers, T. E. Stephens, D. J. Suson, S. Tabassum, H. Tajima, D. Tak, G. Theureau, D. J. Thompson, O. Tibolla, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, C. Venter, Z. Wadiasingh, N. Wang, P. Wang, P. Weltevrede, K. Wood, J. Yan, G. Zaharijas, C. Zhang, and W. Zhu
Subjects: Binary pulsars, Millisecond pulsars, Pulsar timing method, Rotation powered pulsars, Pulsars, Gamma-rays, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio searches of LAT sources will likely reveal pulsations once phase-connected rotation ephemerides are achieved. A further dozen optical and/or X-ray binary systems colocated with LAT sources also likely harbor gamma-ray MSPs. This catalog thus reports roughly 340 gamma-ray pulsars and candidates, 10% of all known pulsars, compared to ≤11 known before Fermi. Half of the gamma-ray pulsars are young. Of these, the half that are undetected in radio have a broader Galactic latitude distribution than the young radio-loud pulsars. The others are MSPs, with six undetected in radio. Overall, ≥236 are bright enough above 50 MeV to fit the pulse profile, the energy spectrum, or both. For the common two-peaked profiles, the gamma-ray peak closest to the magnetic pole crossing generally has a softer spectrum. The spectral energy distributions tend to narrow as the spindown power $\dot{E}$ decreases to its observed minimum near 10 ^33 erg s ^−1 , approaching the shape for synchrotron radiation from monoenergetic electrons. We calculate gamma-ray luminosities when distances are available. Our all-sky gamma-ray sensitivity map is useful for population syntheses. The electronic catalog version provides gamma-ray pulsar ephemerides, properties, and fit results to guide and be compared with modeling results.
Published: 2023
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6. The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ajello, R. Angioni, M. Axelsson, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, P. Bruel, S. Buson, F. Cafardo, R. A. Cameron, E. Cavazzuti, S. Chen, C. C. Cheung, S. Ciprini, D. Costantin, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, P. de la Torre Luque, R. de Menezes, F. de Palma, A. Desai, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, F. Fana Dirirsa, E. C. Ferrara, J. Finke, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, S. Garrappa, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, S. Harita, E. Haywood, D. Horan, R. Itoh, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kovac’evic’, F. Krauss, M. Kreter, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, C. Leto, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, F. Massaro, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, G. Migliori, N. Barrios, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, R. Nemmen, E. Nuss, L. S. Ojha, R. Ojha, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, V. S. Paliya, Z. Pei, H. Peña-Herazo, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, L. Petrov, F. Piron, H. Poon, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, F. K. Schinzel, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, Y. Tachibana, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, E. Troja, J. Valverde, P. van Zyl, and M. Yassine
Subjects: Astrophysics, Astronomy
Abstract: The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains $2863$ objects located at high Galactic latitudes (| b| > 10^9). It includes 85% more sources than the previous 3LAC catalog based on 4 yr of data. AGNs represent at least 79% of the high-latitude sources in the fourth Fermi-Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL), which covers the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV. In addition, 344 gamma-ray AGNs are found at low Galactic latitudes. Most of the 4LAC AGNs are blazars (98%), while the remainder are other types of AGNs. The blazar population consists of 24% Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs), 38% BL Lac-type objects, and 38% blazar candidates of unknown types (BCUs). On average, FSRQs display softer spectra and stronger variability in the gamma-ray band than BL Lacs do, confirming previous findings. All AGNs detected by ground-based atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes are also found in the 4LAC.
Published: 2020
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7. Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

Author: S. Abdollahi, F. Acero, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, T. H. Burnett, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, D. Castro, E. Cavazzuti, E. Charles, S. Chaty, S. Chen, C. C. Cheung, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, L. R. Cominsky, J. Coronado-Blázquez, D. Costantin, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D'Ammando, M. DeKlotz, P. de la Torre Luque, F. de Palma, A. Desai, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, A. Dominguez, D. Dumora, F. Fana Dirirsa, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Griffin, M.-H. Grondin, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, K. Hayashi, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, T. J. Johnson, T. Kamae, M. Kerr, D. Kocevski, M. Kovac’evic’, M. Kuss, D. Landriu, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, E. J. Marchesini, L. Marcotulli, G. Martí-Devesa, P. Martin, F. Massaro, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, N. Mirabal, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, R. Ojha, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, D. Paneque, Z. Pei, H. Peña-Herazo, J. S. Perkins, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, L. Petrov, F. Piron, H. Poon, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Raino', R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, Q. Remy, T. Reposeur, R. W. Romani, P. M. Saz Parkinson, F. K. Schinzel, D. Serini, C. Sgro', E. J. Siskind, D. A. Smith, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, A. W. Strong, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, M. N. Takahashi, D. Tak, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, J. Valverde, B. Van Klaveren, P. van Zyl, K. Wood, M. Yassine, and G. Zaharijas
Subjects: Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the deepest yet in this energy range. Relative to the 3FGL catalog, the 4FGL catalog has twice as much exposure as well as a number of analysis improvements, including an updated model for the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission, and two sets of light curves (one-year and two-month intervals). The 4FGL catalog includes 5064 sources above 4 sigma significance, for which we provide localization and spectral properties. Seventy-five sources are modeled explicitly as spatially extended, and overall, 358 sources are considered as identified based on angular extent, periodicity, or correlated variability observed at other wavelengths. For 1336 sources, we have not found plausible counterparts at other wavelengths. More than 3130 of the identified or associated sources are active galaxies of the blazar class, and 239 are pulsars.
Published: 2020
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8. A gamma-ray determination of the Universe’s star formation history

Author: S. Abdollahi, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra González, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. Blandford, E. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, S. Buson, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, R. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, E. Charles, S. Chen, T. Cheung, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, L. Cominsky, J. Conrad, D. Costantin, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, F. de Palma, A. Desai, S. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, C. Favuzzi, S. Fegan, J. Finke, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, G. Gallardo Romero, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. Grenier, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, D. H. Hartmann, E. Hays, K. Helgason, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, D. Kocevski, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. Madejski, J. Magill, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, L. Marcotulli, M. Mazziotta, J. McEnery, M. Meyer, P. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, R. Ojha, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. Ormes, M. Palatiello, V. Paliya, D. Paneque, J. Perkins, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, T. Porter, J. R. Primack, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, P. Saz Parkinson, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, J. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, G. Tosti, A. Tramacere, E. Troja, J. V. Valverde, G. Vianello, M. Vogel, K. Wood, and G. Zaharijas
Published: 2018
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9. Gamma Rays from Fast Black-hole Winds

Author: M. Ajello, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, P. Bruel, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, D. Caprioli, R. Caputo, E. Cavazzuti, G. Chartas, S. Chen, C. C. Cheung, G. Chiaro, D. Costantin, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, P. de la Torre Luque, F. de Palma, A. Desai, R. Diesing, N. Di Lalla, F. Dirirsa, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, S. J. Fegan, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, D. Hartmann, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, C. Karwin, M. Kerr, M. Kovačević, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, S. Marchesi, L. Marcotulli, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, V. Paliya, D. Paneque, Z. Pei, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, P. M. Saz Parkinson, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, D. Tak, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, K. Wood, G. Zaharijas, and J. Zrake
Published: 2021
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10. Fermi and Swift Observations of GRB 190114C: Tracing the Evolution of High-energy Emission from Prompt to Afterglow

Author: M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, E. Burns, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, S. Chen, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, D. Costantin, S. Cutini, F.D’Ammando, M. DeKlotz, P. de la Torre Luque, F. de Palma, A. Desai, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, F. Fana Dirirsa, S. J. Fegan, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, R. Gill, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, J. Granot, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, M.-H. Grondin, S. Guiriec, E. Hays, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, D. Kocevski, M. Kovac’evic’, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, M. Lemoine-Goumard, J.Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, D. Paneque, Z. Pei, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, H. Poon, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, F. Ryde, P. M. Saz Parkinson, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, K. Takagi, M. N. Takahashi, D. Tak, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, J. Valverde, B. Van Klaveren, K. Wood, M. Yassine, G. Zaharijas, B. Mailyan, P. N. Bhat, M. S. Briggs, W. Cleveland, M. Giles, A. Goldstein, M. Hui, Christian Malacaria, R. Preece, O. J. Roberts, P. Veres, C. Wilson-Hodge, A. von Kienlin, S. B. Cenko, P. O’Brien, A. P. Beardmore, A. Lien, J. P. Osborne, A. Tohuvavohu, V. D’Elia, A.D’Aì, M. Perri, J. Gropp, N. Klingler, M. Capalbi, G. Tagliaferri, M. Stamatikos, and M. De Pasquale
Subjects: Astronomy
Abstract: We report on the observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The prompt gamma-ray emission was detected by the Fermi GRB Monitor (GBM), the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and the long-lived afterglow emission was subsequently observed by the GBM, LAT, Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT), and Swift UV Optical Telescope. The early-time observations reveal multiple emission components that evolve independently, with a delayed power-law component that exhibits significant spectral attenuation above 40 MeV in the first few seconds of the burst. This power-law component transitions to a harder spectrum that is consistent with the afterglow emission observed by the XRT at later times. This afterglow component is clearly identifiable in the GBM and BAT light curves as a slowly fading emission component on which the rest of the prompt emission is superimposed. As a result, we are able to observe the transition from internal-shock- to external-shock-dominated emission. We find that the temporal and spectral evolution of the broadband afterglow emission can be well modeled as synchrotron emission from a forward shock propagating into a wind-like circumstellar environment. We estimate the initial bulk Lorentz factor using the observed high-energy spectral cutoff. Considering the onset of the afterglow component, we constrain the deceleration radius at which this forward shock begins to radiate in order to estimate the maximum synchrotron energy as a function of time. We find that even in the LAT energy range, there exist high-energy photons that are in tension with the theoretical maximum energy that can be achieved through synchrotron emission from a shock. These violations of the maximum synchrotron energy are further compounded by the detection of very high-energy (VHE) emission above 300 GeV by MAGIC concurrent with our observations. We conclude that the observations of VHE photons from GRB 190114C necessitates either an additional emission mechanism at very high energies that is hidden in the synchrotron component in the LAT energy range, an acceleration mechanism that imparts energy to the particles at a rate that is faster than the electron synchrotron energy-loss rate, or revisions of the fundamental assumptions used in estimating the maximum photon energy attainable through the synchrotron process.
Published: 2020
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11. The Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository

Author: S. Abdollahi, M. Ajello, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. Bonino, A. Brill, P. Bruel, E. Burns, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, N. Cibrario, S. Ciprini, P. Cristarella Orestano, M. Crnogorcevic, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, S. De Gaetano, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, V. Fallah Ramazani, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Fiori, H. Fleischhack, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, V. Gammaldi, F. Gargano, S. Garrappa, C. Gasbarra, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, E. Hays, D. Horan, X. Hou, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kerr, D. Kocevski, M. Kuss, L. Latronico, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, L. Lorusso, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, G. Panzarini, J. S. Perkins, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, R. Pillera, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, M. Sánchez-Conde, P. M. Saz Parkinson, Jeff Scargle, L. Scotton, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, T. Venters, Z. Wadiasingh, S. Wagner, K. Wood, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Active galactic nuclei, Light Curves (918), Gamma-ray astronomy, Space and Planetary Science, Física, FOS: Physical sciences, Gamma-ray astronomy, Active galactic nuclei, Light curves, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-Ray Astronomy (628), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Active Galactic Nuclei (16), Light curves, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores, solo se referencian el que aparece en primer lugar, los autores pertenecientes a la UAM y el nombre del grupo de colaboración, si lo hubiere, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) lightcurve repository (LCR) is a publicly available, continually updated library of gamma-ray lightcurves of variable Fermi-LAT sources generated over multiple timescales. The Fermi-LAT LCR aims to provide publication-quality lightcurves binned on timescales of 3, 7, and 30 days for 1525 sources deemed variable in the source catalog of the first 10 yr of Fermi-LAT observations. The repository consists of lightcurves generated through full likelihood analyses that model the sources and the surrounding region, providing fluxes and photon indices for each time bin. The LCR is intended as a resource for the time-domain and multimessenger communities by allowing users to search LAT data quickly to identify correlated variability and flaring emission episodes from gamma-ray sources. We describe the sample selection and analysis employed by the LCR and provide an overview of the associated data access portal, M.N. and J.V. acknowledge that the material is based upon work supported by NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002. D.K. and M.N. acknowledge support to this work from NASA Fermi GI Program under grant number 80NSSC23K0242. A.B. is supported by the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities. INFN and ASI personnel performed in part under ASI-INFN Agreements No. 2021-43-HH.0. Work at NRL is supported by NASA. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
Published: 2023
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12. Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky through its Angular Power Spectrum

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, E. Burns, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, S. Chen, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, D. Costantin, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, P. de la Torre Luque, F. de Palma, A. Desai, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, F. Fana Dirirsa, C. Favuzzi, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, J. D. Magill, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, D. Paneque, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, T. M. Venters, G. Vianello, K. Wood, M. Yassine, G. Zaharijas, S. Ammazzalorso, N. Fornengo, and M. Regis
Published: 2018
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13. Multiwavelength flare observations of the blazar S5 1803+784

Author: R Nesci, S Cutini, C Stanghellini, F Martinelli, A Maselli, V M Lipunov, V Kornilov, R R Lopez, A Siviero, M Giroletti, and M Orienti
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 0103 physical sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences
Abstract: The radio, optical, and $\gamma$-ray light curves of the blazar S5 1803+784, from the beginning of the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) mission in August 2008 until December 2018, are presented. The aim of this work is to look for correlations among different wavelengths useful for further theoretical studies. We analyzed all the data collected by {\it Fermi} LAT for this source, taking into account the presence of nearby sources, and we collected optical data from our own observations and public archive data to build the most complete optical and $\gamma$-ray light curve possible. Several $\gamma$-ray flares ($\mathrm{F>2.3~10^{-7} ph(E>0.1 GeV)~cm^{-2}~s^{-1}}$) with optical coverage were detected, all but one with corresponding optical enhancement; we also found two optical flares without a $\gamma$-ray counterpart. We obtained two {\it Swift} Target of Opportunity observations during the strong flare of 2015. Radio observations performed with VLBA and EVN through our proposals in the years 2016-2020 were analyzed to search for morphological changes after the major flares. The optical/$\gamma$-ray flux ratio at the flare peak varied for each flare. Very minor optical V-I color changes were detected during the flares. The X-ray spectrum was well fitted by a power law with photon spectral index $\alpha$=1.5, nearly independent of the flux level: no clear correlation with the optical or the $\gamma$-ray emission was found. The $\gamma$-ray spectral shape was well fitted by a power law with average photon index $\alpha$= 2.2. These findings support an Inverse Compton origin for the high-energy emission of the source, nearly co-spatial with the optically emitting region. The radio maps showed two new components originating from the core and moving outwards, with ejection epochs compatible with the dates of the two largest $\gamma$-ray flares., Comment: Twelve pages, 12 figures, accepted for MNRAS
Published: 2021
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14. Cosmic-ray electron-positron spectrum from 7 GeV to 2 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: S. Abdollahi, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, M. Caragiulo, D. Castro, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, A. Chekhtman, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, F. Costanza, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. Favuzzi, W. B. Focke, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, L. Guillemot, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, T. Jogler, G. Jóhannesson, T. Kamae, M. Kuss, G. La Mura, L. Latronico, F. Longo, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, M. N. Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, N. Mirabal, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, E. Orlando, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, C. Sgrò, D. Simone, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, M. Wood, A. Worley, G. Zaharijas, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2017
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15. Search for Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Anisotropies with Seven Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

Author: S. Abdollahi, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, P. Bruel, S. Buson, M. Caragiulo, E. Cavazzuti, A. Chekhtman, S. Ciprini, F. Costanza, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, B. Donaggio, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, W. B. Focke, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, T. Jogler, G. Jóhannesson, T. Kamae, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, J. D. Magill, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Meehan, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, M. Negro, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, N. Omodei, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Pivato, G. Principe, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, C. Sgrò, D. Simone, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, A. W. Strong, H. Tajima, J. B. Thayer, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, J. Vandenbroucke, G. Zaharijas, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2017
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16. Cherenkov Telescope Array : the World’s largest VHE gamma-ray observatory

Author: Roberta Zanin, H. Abdalla, H. Abe, S. Abe, A. Abusleme, F. Acero, A. Acharyya, V. Acin Portella, K. Ackley, R. Adam, C. Adams, S.S. Adhikari, I. Aguado Ruesga, I. Agudo, R. Aguilera, A. Aguirre Santaella, F. Aharonian, A. Alberdi, R. Alfaro, J. Alfaro, C. Alispach, R. Aloisio, R. Alves Batista, J.P. Amans, L. Amati, E. Amato, L. Ambrogi, G. Ambrosi, M. Ambrosio, R. Ammendola, J. Anderson, M. Anduze, E.O. Anguner, L.A. Antonelli, V. Antonuccio, P. Antoranz, R. Anutarawiramkul, J. Aragunde Gutierrez, C. Aramo, A. Araudo, M. Araya, A. Arbet Engels, C. Arcaro, V. Arendt, C. Armand, T. Armstrong, F. Arqueros, L. Arrabito, B. Arsioli, M. Artero, K. Asano, Y. Ascasibar, J. Aschersleben, M. Ashley, P. Attina, P. Aubert, C. B. Singh, D. Baack, A. Babic, M. Backes, V. Baena, S. Bajtlik, A. Baktash, C. Balazs, M. Balbo, O. Ballester, J. Ballet, B. Balmaverde, A. Bamba, R. Bandiera, A. Baquero Larriva, P. Barai, C. Barbier, V. Barbosa Martins, M. Barcelo, M. Barkov, M. Barnard, L. Baroncelli, U. Barres de Almeida, J.A. Barrio, D. Bastieri, P.I. Batista, I. Batkovic, C. Bauer, R. Bautista González, J. Baxter, U. Becciani, J. Becerra González, Y. Becherini, G. Beck, J. Becker Tjus, W. Bednarek, A. Belfiore, L. Bellizzi, R. Belmont, W. Benbow, D. Berge, E. Bernardini, M.I. Bernardos, K. Bernlöhr, A. Berti, M. Berton, B. Bertucci, V. Beshley, N. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharyya, W. Bhattacharyya, B. Y. Bi, G. Bicknell, N. Biederbeck, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, R. Bird, E. Bissaldi, J. Biteau, M. Bitossi, O. Blanch, M. Blank, J. Blazek, J. Bobin, C. Boccato, F. Bocchino, C. Boehm, M. Bohacova, C. Boisson, J. Boix, J.P. Bolle, J. Bolmont, G. Bonanno, C. Bonavolontà, L. Bonneau Arbeletche, G. Bonnoli, P. Bordas, J. Borkowski, R. Bose, D. Bose, Z. Bosnjak, E. Bottacini, Markus Böttcher, M.T. Botticella, C. Boutonnet, F. Bouyjou, V. Bozhilov, E. Bozzo, L. Brahimi, C. Braiding, S. Brau Nogue, S. Breen, J. Bregeon, M. Breuhaus, A. Brill, W. Brisken, E. Brocato, A.M. Brown, K. 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Wagner, K. Wakazono, S.P. Wakely, M. Ward, D. Warren, J. Watson, M. Wechakama, P. Wegner, A. Weinstein, C. Weniger, F. Werner, H. Wetteskind, M. L. White, A. Wierzcholska, S. Wiesand, R. Wijers, M. Wilkinson, M. Will, J. Williams, T. J. Williamson, A. Wolter, Y.W. Wong, M. Wood, T. Yamamoto, H. Yamamoto, Y. Yamane, R. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, L. Yang, S. Yoo, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi, P. Yu, A. Yusafzai, Michael Zacharias, B. Zaldivar, L. Zampieri, R. Zanin, R. Zanmar Sanchez, D. Zaric, M. Zavrtanik, D. Zavrtanik, Andrzej Zdziarski, A. Zech, H. Zechlin, A. Zenin, A. Zerwekh, K. Ziętara, A. Zink, J. Ziolkowski, M. Zivec, A. Zmija, Współautorami artykułu są członkowie CTA Observatory, CTA Consortium i LST Collaboration w liczbie 1139, Astronomy, Research unit Nuclear & Hadron Physics, and Research unit Astroparticle Physics
Subjects: Physics, Observatory, Gamma ray, Astronomy
Abstract: Very-high Energy (VHE) gamma-ray astroparticle physics is a relatively young field, and observations over the past decade have surprisingly revealed almost two hundred VHE emitters which appear to act as cosmic particle accelerators. These sources are an important component of the Universe, influencing the evolution of stars and galaxies. At the same time, they also act as a probe of physics in the most extreme environments known - such as in supernova explosions, and around or after the merging of black holes and neutron stars. However, the existing experiments have provided exciting glimpses, but often falling short of supplying the full answer. A deeper understanding of the TeV sky requires a significant improvement in sensitivity at TeV energies, a wider energy coverage from tens of GeV to hundreds of TeV and a much better angular and energy resolution with respect to the currently running facilities. The next generation gamma-ray observatory, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), is the answer to this need. In this talk I will present this upcoming observatory from its design to the construction, and its potential science exploitation. CTAO will allow the entire astronomical community to explore a new discovery space that will likely lead to paradigm-changing breakthroughs. In particular, CTA has an unprecedented sensitivity to short (sub-minute) timescale phenomena, placing it as a key instrument in the future of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength time domain astronomy. I will conclude the talk presenting the first scientific results obtained by the LST-1, the prototype of one CTAO telescope type - the Large-Sized Telescope, that is currently under commission., PoS: Proceedings of Science, 395, ISSN:1824-8039, Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2021)
Published: 2022

17. Resolving the Extragalacticγ-Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, J. Bregeon, R. J. Britto, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, L. R. Cominsky, F. Costanza, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, G. Godfrey, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, E. Hays, D. Horan, G. Iafrate, T. Jogler, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kuss, G. La Mura, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, L. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, J. Magill, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, M. Mayer, M. N. Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Negro, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, C. Okada, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, T. Reposeur, R. W. Romani, M. Sánchez-Conde, J. Schmid, A. Schulz, C. Sgrò, D. Simone, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, G. Vianello, M. Yassine, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2016
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18. Measurement of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Moon with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, F. Costanza, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, L. Di Venere, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, W. B. Focke, A. Franckowiak, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, X. Hou, G. Iafrate, G. Jóhannesson, T. Kamae, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, L. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, J. Magill, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, M. Mayer, M. N. Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, S. Murgia, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, G. Pivato, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, T. Reposeur, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, G. Vianello, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Yassine, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, and P. R. Sala
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19. First detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from TXS 1515-273, study of its X-ray variability and spectral energy distribution

Author: M. I. Martínez, V. Neustroev, Francesco Longo, Maria-Isabel Bernardos, Alessandro Marchini, Alicia Fattorini, Tomohiko Oka, Katsuaki Asano, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, Adrian Biland, D. Hadasch, D. Miceli, Sanae Inoue, Giacomo D'Amico, Yating Chai, Stefan Cikota, Pawel Gliwny, I. Vovk, David A. Green, R. J. García López, Narek Sahakyan, Stefano Covino, Lea Heckmann, Francesco Gabriele Saturni, J. Becerra González, Armin Nabizadeh, F. D'Ammando, J. Rico, M. Vazquez Acosta, Nicola Giglietto, Alexander Hahn, Nikola Godinovic, Dorota Sobczyńska, G. Ferrara, G. Busetto, E. Molina, Satoshi Fukami, Shunsuke Sakurai, Jarred Gershon Green, Elisabetta Bissaldi, C. Perennes, D. Strom, Yusuke Suda, E. Colombo, Lab Saha, Alice Donini, Kazuma Ishio, Massimo Persic, L. A. Antonelli, Martin Makariev, Dominik Baack, P. G. Prada Moroni, J. Kushida, Ivica Puljak, Victor Moreno, Oscar Blanch, S. Ventura, C. Nigro, Carlo Vigorito, F. Leone, D. Dominis Prester, Alessandra Lamastra, J. A. Barrio, John Hoang, V. Verguilov, Tomoki Saito, J. M. Paredes, Antonio Stamerra, Giovanni Ceribella, Rodolfo Carosi, I. Jiménez, V. D'Elia, Pratik Majumdar, M. V. Fonseca, Daniel Morcuende, Jose Luis Contreras, Jenni Jormanainen, Vincenzo Vitale, T. Schweizer, A. Arbet Engels, S. Loporchio, A. Rugliancich, Marina Manganaro, A. De Angelis, M. Karjalainen, Sargis Gasparyan, Stefano Menchiari, Y. Kajiwara, Fabrizio Tavecchio, M. Palatiello, Manuela Mallamaci, Masahiro Teshima, S. Paiano, Luca Tosti, I. Snidaric, Mosè Mariotti, Martin Will, M. Orienti, S. Mićanović, Ashot Chilingarian, Wolfgang Rhode, Lluis Font, B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga, Tihomir Surić, Manuel Artero, Juan Cortina, Toshiaki Inada, Yuki Iwamura, Stefano Truzzi, D. Zarić, Saverio Lombardi, Francesco Dazzi, Simone Mender, E. Do Souto Espiñeira, Tomislav Terzić, Dario Hrupec, Pablo Peñil, Konstancja Satalecka, L. Maraschi, Giacomo Bonnoli, Sidika Merve Colak, Elina Lindfors, Marcos López-Moya, G. Maneva, Karl Mannheim, Wlodek Bednarek, L. Di Venere, Mitsunari Takahashi, Michele Doro, J. van Scherpenberg, Stefano Ansoldi, Daniel Mazin, Riccardo Paoletti, Christian Fruck, Ivana Batković, E. Prandini, Wrijupan Bhattacharyya, Julian Sitarek, Santiago Ubach, Y. Kobayashi, F. Di Pierro, Jürgen Besenrieder, Lorenzo Bellizzi, Francesco Giordano, Antonio Tutone, J. Otero-Santos, K. Nishijima, Jose Miguel Miranda, Kai Phillip Schmidt, A. Berti, Yoshiki Ohtani, Tjark Miener, David Paneque, D. Elsaesser, Jordi Delgado, Ž. Bošnjak, Matteo Cerruti, Chiara Righi, V. Fallah Ramazani, V. A. Acciari, P. Temnikov, P. Da Vela, Manuel Delfino, Lovro Pavletić, Moritz Hütten, Chaitanya Priyadarshi, Carolin Wunderlich, Ana Babić, C. Delgado Mendez, M. Strzys, Kari Nilsson, Camilla Maggio, Daniela Dorner, Gaia Vanzo, M. Gaug, J. Herrera, Koji Noda, Elisa Bernardini, Alessia Spolon, Léa Jouvin, A. López-Oramas, S. Cutini, Daniel Kerszberg, Marc Ribó, B. De Lotto, S. Nozaki, Andrés Baquero, Hidetoshi Kubo, Abelardo Moralejo, E. Moretti, D. Depaoli, Bernd Schleicher, M. Minev, R. Mirzoyan, Ciro Bigongiari, M. Garczarczyk, R. López-Coto, German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Department of Atomic Energy (India), Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (Japan), University of Tokyo, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), Ministry of Education and Research (Romania), Academy of Finland, La Caixa, Croatian Science Foundation, University of Rijeka, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, European Commission, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Acciari, Va, Ansoldi, S, Antonelli, La, Engels, Aa, Artero, M, Asano, K, Baack, D, Babic, A, Baquero, A, de Almeida, Ub, Barrio, Ja, Batkovic, I, Gonzalez, Jb, Bednarek, W, Bellizzi, L, Bernardini, E, Bernardos, M, Berti, A, Besenrieder, J, Bhattacharyya, W, Bigongiari, C, Biland, A, Blanch, O, Bosnjak, Z, Busetto, G, Carosi, R, Ceribell, G, Cerruti, M, Chai, Y, Chilingarian, A, Cikota, S, Colak, Sm, Colombo, E, Contreras, Jl, Cortina, J, Covino, S, D'Amico, G, D'Elia, V, Da Vela, P, Dazzi, F, De Angelis, A, De Lotto, B, Delfino, M, Delgado, J, Mendez, Cd, Depaoli, D, Di Pierro, F, Di Venere, L, Espineira, Ed, Prester, Dd, Donini, A, Dorner, D, Doro, M, Elsaesser, D, Ramazani, Vf, Fattorini, A, Ferrara, G, Fonseca, Mv, Font, L, Fruck, C, Fukami, S, Lopez, Rjg, Garczarczyk, M, Gasparyan, S, Gaug, M, Giglietto, N, Giordano, F, Gliwny, P, Godinovic, N, Green, Jg, Green, D, Hadasch, D, Hahn, A, Heckmann, L, Herrera, J, Hoang, J, Hrupec, D, Hutten, M, Inada, T, Inoue, S, Ishio, K, Iwamura, Y, Jimenez, I, Jormanainen, J, Jouvin, L, Kajiwara, Y, Karjalainen, M, Kerszberg, D, Kobayashi, Y, Kubo, H, Kushida, J, Lamastra, A, Lelas, D, Leone, F, Lindfors, E, Lombardi, S, Longo, F, Lopez-Coto, R, Lopez-Moya, M, Lopez-Oramas, A, Loporchio, S, Fraga, Bmd, Maggio, C, Majumdar, P, Makariev, M, Mallamaci, M, Maneva, G, Manganaro, M, Mannheim, K, Maraschi, L, Mariotti, M, Martinez, M, Mazin, D, Menchiari, S, Mender, S, Micanovic, S, Miceli, D, Miener, T, Minev, M, Miranda, Jm, Mirzoyan, R, Molina, E, Moralejo, A, Morcuende, D, Moreno, V, Moretti, E, Neustroev, V, Nigro, C, Nilsson, K, Nishijima, K, Noda, K, Nozaki, S, Ohtani, Y, Oka, T, Otero-Santos, J, Paiano, S, Palatiello, M, Paneque, D, Paoletti, R, Paredes, Jm, Pavletic, L, Penil, P, Perennes, C, Moroni, Pgp, Prandini, E, Priyadarshi, C, Puljak, I, Rhode, W, Ribo, M, Rico, J, Righi, C, Rugliancich, A, Saha, L, Sahakyan, N, Saito, T, Sakurai, S, Satalecka, K, Saturni, Fg, Schleicher, B, Schmidt, K, Schweizer, T, Sitarek, J, Snidaric, I, Sobczynska, D, Spolon, A, Stamerra, A, Strom, D, Strzys, M, Suda, Y, Suric, T, Takahashi, M, Tavecchio, F, Temnikov, P, Terzic, T, Teshima, M, Tosti, L, Truzzi, S, Tutone, A, Ubach, S, Vanscherpenberg, J, Vanzo, G, Acosta, Mv, Ventura, S, Verguilov, V, Vigorito, Cf, Vitale, V, Vovk, I, Will, M, Wunderlich, C, Zaric, D, Bissaldi, E, Bonnoli, G, Cutini, S, D'Ammando, F, Nabizadeh, A, Marchini, A, and Orienti, M
Subjects: Photon, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, active [Galaxies], Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, Objects: individual: TXS 1515–273, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, law, objects: individual: TXS 1515-273, 0103 physical sciences, individual: TXS 1515-273 [Objects], MAGIC (telescope), Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], individual: TXS 1515–273 [objects], Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Synchrotron, Crab Nebula, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, Física nuclear, objects: individual: TXS 1515–273, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Full list of authors: Acciari, V. A.; Ansoldi, S.; Antonelli, L. A.; Arbet Engels, A. ; Artero, M.; Asano, K.; Baack, D.; Babić, A.; Baquero, A.; Barres de Almeida, U.; Barrio, J. A.; Batković, I.; Becerra González, J.; Bednarek, W.; Bellizzi, L.; Bernardini, E.; Bernardos, M.; Berti, A.; Besenrieder, J.; Bhattacharyya, W.; Bigongiari, C.; Biland, A.; Blanch, O.; Bošnjak, Ž.; Busetto, G.; Carosi, R.; Ceribella, G.; Cerruti, M.; Chai, Y.; Chilingarian, A.; Cikota, S.; Colak, S. M.; Colombo, E.; Contreras, J. L.; Cortina, J.; Covino, S.; D'Amico, G.; D'Elia, V.; da Vela, P.; Dazzi, F.; de Angelis, A.; de Lotto, B.; Delfino, M.; Delgado, J.; Delgado Mendez, C.; Depaoli, D.; Pierro, F. Di; Venere, L. Di; Do Souto Espiñeira, E.; Dominis Prester, D.; Donini, A.; Dorner, D.; Doro, M.; Elsaesser, D.; Fallah Ramazani, V.; Fattorini, A.; Ferrara, G.; Fonseca, M. V.; Font, L.; Fruck, C.; Fukami, S.; García López, R. J.; Garczarczyk, M.; Gasparyan, S.; Gaug, M.; Giglietto, N.; Giordano, F.; Gliwny, P.; Godinović, N.; Green, J. G.; Green, D.; Hadasch, D.; Hahn, A.; Heckmann, L.; Herrera, J.; Hoang, J.; Hrupec, D.; Hütten, M.; Inada, T.; Inoue, S.; Ishio, K.; Iwamura, Y.; Jiménez, I.; Jormanainen, J.; Jouvin, L.; Kajiwara, Y.; Karjalainen, M.; Kerszberg, D.; Kobayashi, Y.; Kubo, H.; Kushida, J.; Lamastra, A.; Lelas, D.; Leone, F.; Lindfors, E.; Lombardi, S.; Longo, F.; López-Coto, R.; López-Moya, M.; López-Oramas, A.; Loporchio, S.; Machado de Oliveira Fraga, B.; Maggio, C.; Majumdar, P.; Makariev, M.; Mallamaci, M.; Maneva, G.; Manganaro, M.; Mannheim, K.; Maraschi, L.; Mariotti, M.; Martínez, M.; Mazin, D.; Menchiari, S.; Mender, S.; Mićanović, S.; Miceli, D.; Miener, T.; Minev, M.; Miranda, J. M.; Mirzoyan, R.; Molina, E.; Moralejo, A.; Morcuende, D.; Moreno, V.; Moretti, E.; Neustroev, V.; Nigro, C.; Nilsson, K.; Nishijima, K.; Noda, K.; Nozaki, S.; Ohtani, Y.; Oka, T.; Otero-Santos, J.; Paiano, S.; Palatiello, M.; Paneque, D.; Paoletti, R.; Paredes, J. M.; Pavletić, L.; Peñil, P.; Perennes, C.; Persic, M.; Prada Moroni, P. G.; Prandini, E.; Priyadarshi, C.; Puljak, I.; Rhode, W.; Ribó, M.; Rico, J.; Righi, C.; Rugliancich, A.; Saha, L.; Sahakyan, N.; Saito, T.; Sakurai, S.; Satalecka, K.; Saturni, F. G.; Schleicher, B.; Schmidt, K.; Schweizer, T.; Sitarek, J.; Šnidarić, I.; Sobczynska, D.; Spolon, A.; Stamerra, A.; Strom, D.; Strzys, M.; Suda, Y.; Surić, T.; Takahashi, M.; Tavecchio, F.; Temnikov, P.; Terzić, T.; Teshima, M.; Tosti, L.; Truzzi, S.; Tutone, A.; Ubach, S.; van Scherpenberg, J.; Vanzo, G.; Vazquez Acosta, M.; Ventura, S.; Verguilov, V.; Vigorito, C. F.; Vitale, V.; Vovk, I.; Will, M.; Wunderlich, C.; Zarić, D.; Bissaldi, E.; Bonnoli, G.; Cutini, S.; D'Ammando, F.; Nabizadeh, A.; Marchini, A.; Orienti, M.; MAGIC Collaboration., We report here on the first multiwavelength (MWL) campaign on the blazar TXS 1515-273, undertaken in 2019 and extending from radio to very-high-energy gamma-rays (VHE). Up until now, this blazar had not been the subject of any detailed MWL observations. It has a rather hard photon index at GeV energies and was considered a candidate extreme high-synchrotron-peaked source. MAGIC observations resulted in the first-time detection of the source in VHE with a statistical significance of 7.6σ. The average integral VHE flux of the source is 6 ± 1 per cent of the Crab nebula flux above 400 GeV. X-ray coverage was provided by Swift-XRT, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR. The long continuous X-ray observations were separated by ∼9 h, both showing clear hour scale flares. In the XMM-Newton data, both the rise and decay time-scales are longer in the soft X-ray than in the hard X-ray band, indicating the presence of a particle cooling regime. The X-ray variability time-scales were used to constrain the size of the emission region and the strength of the magnetic field. The data allowed us to determine the synchrotron peak frequency and classify the source as a flaring high, but not extreme synchrotron-peaked object. Considering the constraints and variability patterns from the X-ray data, we model the broad-band spectral energy distribution. We applied a simple one-zone model, which could not reproduce the radio emission and the shape of the optical emission, and a two-component leptonic model with two interacting components, enabling us to reproduce the emission from radio to VHE band. © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society., The financial support of the German BMBF, MPG, and HGF; the Italian INFN and INAF; the Swiss National Fund SNF; the ERDF under the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) (FPA201787859-P, FPA2017-85668-P, FPA2017-82729-C6-5-R, FPA201790566-REDC, PID2019-104114RB-C31, PID2019-104114RB-C32, PID2019-105510GB-C31, PID2019-107847RB-C41, PID2019107847RB-C42, PID2019-107847RB-C44, PID2019-107988GBC22); the Indian Department of Atomic Energy; the Japanese ICRR, the University of Tokyo, JSPS, and MEXT; the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, National RI Roadmap Project DO1268/16.12.2019 and the Academy of Finland grant nr. 317637 and 320045 are gratefully acknowledged. This work was also supported by the Spanish Centro de Excelencia `Severo Ochoa' SEV-20160588, SEV-2017-0709 and CEX2019-000920-S, and `Maria de Maeztu' CEX2019-000918-M, the Unidad de Excelencia `Maria de Maeztu' MDM-2015-0509-18-2 and the `la Caixa' Foundation (fellowshipLCF/BQ/PI18/11630012), by the Croatian Science Foundation (HrZZ) Project IP-2016-06-9782 and the University of Rijeka Project 13.12.1.3.02, by the DFG Collaborative Research Centers SFB823/C4 and SFB876/C3, the Polish National Research Centre grant UMO-2016/22/M/ST9/00382 and by the Brazilian MCTIC, CNPq, and FAPERJ. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, theCommissariat à l'Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase from the following agencies is also gratefully acknowledged: the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales in France.
Published: 2021
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20. Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation

Author: Soebur Razzaque, R. Buehler, T. A. Porter, J. Li, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, L. Tibaldo, F. Piron, Denis Bastieri, N. Saggini, N. Di Lalla, G. Tosti, Dario Gasparrini, Francesco Longo, A. Fiori, Stefan Larsson, J. G. Thayer, Ioannis Liodakis, F. Fana Dirirsa, W. B. Atwood, Luca Baldini, J. S. Perkins, M. Ceccanti, Alessandro Brez, D. Serini, Sylvain Guiriec, Stefano Ciprini, Mn Mazziotta, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, G. Foglia, M. Razzano, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, J. Bregeon, Sina Chen, L. Di Venere, Michele Pinchera, T. J. Johnson, Seth Digel, Elliott D. Bloom, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, M.-H. Grondin, F. Gargano, Hiroyasu Tajima, R. Primavera, Ronaldo Bellazzini, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, E. Orlando, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Marco Ajello, E. Rapposelli, Roopesh Ojha, Denise A. Smith, E. Hays, P. M. Saz Parkinson, E. J. Siskind, G. Principe, Manuel Meyer, P. Fusco, N. Menon, Diego F. Torres, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, J. Valverde, Matthew Kerr, Elisabetta Bissaldi, H. Poon, M. Orienti, S. Buson, Vaidehi S. Paliya, D. J. Thompson, D. Fabiani, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Magnus Axelsson, A. Reimer, Massimo Minuti, S. Maldera, J. J. Russell, Warit Mitthumsiri, R. Bagagli, S. Griffin, F. D'Ammando, T. Kamae, G. Martí-Devesa, Z. Pei, E. Cavazzuti, E. Nuss, David Paneque, P. Spinelli, T. Glanzman, M. Bagni, F. de Palma, Alessandro Paccagnella, M. Kuss, Aaron Dominguez, M. Mongelli, Luca Latronico, Igor V. Moskalenko, Gloria Spandre, N. Scolieri, R. A. Cameron, G. Jóhannesson, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Alberto Manfreda, L. Vigiani, Bindu Rani, P. Bruel, Ismaël Cognard, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, P. de la Torre Luque, L. Guillemot, M. E. Monzani, F. Bellardi, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, David A. Green, I. Mereu, P. Caraveo, S. Cutini, D. J. Suson, C. C. Cheung, R. Bonino, P. Lubrano, M. Gustafsson, J. L. Racusin, M. Negro, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ajello, M., Atwood, W. B., Axelsson, M., Bagagli, R., Bagni, M., Baldini, L., Bastieri, D., Bellardi, F., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bregeon, J., Brez, A., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Ceccanti, M., Chen, S., Cheung, C. C., Ciprini, S., Cognard, I., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Cutini, S., D???ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Digel, S. W., Dirirsa, F., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Dom??nguez, A., Fabiani, D., Ferrara, E. C., Fiori, A., Foglia, G., Fukazawa, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Green, D., Griffin, S., Grondin, M. -H., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Hays, E., Horan, D., J??hannesson, G., Johnson, T. J., Kamae, T., Kerr, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mart??-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Menon, N., Mereu, I., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Minuti, M., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Mongelli, M., Monzani, M. E., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ojha, R., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paccagnella, A., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Perkins, J. S., Pesce-Rollins, M., Pinchera, M., Piron, F., Poon, H., Porter, T. A., Primavera, R., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Rain??, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Rapposelli, E., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Russell, J. J., Saggini, N., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Scolieri, N., Serini, D., Sgr??, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. G., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Valverde, J., Vigiani, L., and Zaharijas, G.
Subjects: Calibration (statistics), Gamma-ray telescopes, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 030226 pharmacology & pharmacy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Telescope, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, law, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Physics, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Calibration, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 30 MeV to more than 300 GeV. We describe the performance of the instrument at the 10-year milestone. LAT performance remains well within the specifications defined during the planning phase, validating the design choices and supporting the compelling case to extend the duration of the Fermi mission. The details provided here will be useful when designing the next generation of high-energy gamma-ray observatories., 60 pages, 28 figures. Published in ApJS
Published: 2021
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21. Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

Author: M. Ackermann, A. Albert, B. Anderson, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, L. Di Venere, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, R. Essig, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, W. B. Focke, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, E. Hays, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, T. Jogler, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, L. Li, M. Llena Garde, F. Longo, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, D. Malyshev, M. Mayer, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, S. Murgia, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, S. Ritz, M. Sánchez-Conde, A. Schulz, N. Sehgal, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, L. Strigari, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, G. Vianello, M. Werner, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, G. Zaharijas, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2015
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22. Updated search for spectral lines from Galactic dark matter interactions with pass 8 data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, B. Anderson, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, L. Di Venere, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, G. Godfrey, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, J. W. Hewitt, A. B. Hill, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, R. P. Johnson, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, L. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, D. Malyshev, M. Mayer, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, S. Murgia, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Pivato, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, T. Reposeur, S. Ritz, M. Sánchez-Conde, A. Schulz, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, G. Vianello, M. Werner, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, G. Zaharijas, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2015
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23. First fermi-LAT solar flare catalog

Author: Sara Buson, F. D'Ammando, T. A. Porter, L. Di Venere, S. Rainò, F. Piron, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. W. Hewitt, J. Li, Luca Baldini, E. J. Siskind, Marcello Giroletti, S. Maldera, D. Gasparrini, P. Lubrano, P. Fusco, Sylvain Guiriec, F. Fana Dirirsa, Seb. Funk, E. Cavazzuti, Gloria Spandre, Nicola Omodei, Mn Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, S. J. Fegan, Soebur Razzaque, E. Hays, Ferdinando Giordano, M. N. Lovellette, D. Costantin, Carmelo Sgrò, F. Longo, Marco Ajello, K. S. Wood, F. de Palma, E. Troja, T. Mizuno, Regina Caputo, G. Zaharijas, F. Gargano, David Paneque, N. Di Lalla, Elisabetta Bissaldi, D. Green, R. Rando, C. C. Cheung, J. Valverde, Bindu Rani, M. Kuss, Luca Latronico, D. Tak, D. Bastieri, R. Bonino, G. Jóhannesson, E. Orlando, M. Negro, A. Berretta, A. Reimer, Z. Pei, G. Chiaro, P. Spinelli, M. E. Monzani, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Vahé Petrosian, Giacomo Principe, D. Serini, Alberto Manfreda, S. Larsson, Massimo Persic, M. Orienti, M. Razzano, Miloš Kovačević, A. Morselli, R. A. Cameron, G. Martí-Devesa, P. Bruel, S. Cutini, R. Desiante, J. L. Racusin, I. Mereu, Roger Blandford, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, R. Bellazzini, Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Berretta, A., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Fana Dirirsa, F., Fegan, S. J., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Johannesson, G., Kovac'Evic, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marti-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mereu, I., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Raino, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Serini, D., Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tak, D., Troja, E., Valverde, J., Wood, K., Zaharijas, G., Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), D???ammando, F., de Palma, F., J??hannesson, G., Kovac???evic???, M., Mart??-Devesa, G., Rain??, S., and Sgr??, C.
Subjects: Solar gamma-ray emission, Gamma-ray telescopes, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Astrophysics, Solar flares, Gamma-ray sources, Catalogs, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010306 general physics, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, education.field_of_study, Solar flare, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Solar flares, Solar gamma-ray emission, Gamma-ray sources, Gamma-ray telescopes, Catalogs, Solar physics, Light curve, Solar cycle, Gamma-ray source, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, Gamma-ray telescope, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Flare
Abstract: We present the first Fermi - Large Area Telescope (LAT) solar flare catalog covering the 24 th solar cycle. This catalog contains 45 Fermi -LAT solar flares (FLSFs) with emission in the gamma-ray energy band (30 MeV - 10 GeV) detected with a significance greater than 5 sigma over the years 2010-2018. A subsample containing 37 of these flares exhibit delayed emission beyond the prompt-impulsive hard X-ray phase with 21 flares showing delayed emission lasting more than two hours. No prompt-impulsive emission is detected in four of these flares. We also present in this catalog the observations of GeV emission from 3 flares originating from Active Regions located behind the limb (BTL) of the visible solar disk. We report the light curves, spectra, best proton index and localization (when possible) for all the FLSFs. The gamma-ray spectra is consistent with the decay of pions produced by >300 MeV protons. This work contains the largest sample of high-energy gamma-ray flares ever reported and provides the unique opportunity to perform population studies on the different phases of the flare and thus allowing to open a new window in solar physics.
Published: 2021
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24. Gamma Rays from Fast Black-hole Winds

Author: M. Razzano, Francesco Longo, J. Zrake, S. Buson, Junyao Li, A. Franckowiak, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Diego F. Torres, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Aaron Dominguez, M. E. Monzani, Sylvain Guiriec, Mn Mazziotta, C. Karwin, Alberto Manfreda, Bindu Rani, Denis Bastieri, Nicola Omodei, F. D'Ammando, G. Jóhannesson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, A. Desai, S. Marchesi, D. Costantin, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. Orienti, Marco Ajello, Damiano Caprioli, A. Berretta, Sina Chen, A. Reimer, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Miloš Kovačević, Z. Pei, A. Morselli, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Rebecca Diesing, Stefan Larsson, J. L. Racusin, David Paneque, G. Chiaro, M. Kuss, Vaidehi S. Paliya, P. Spinelli, L. Marcotulli, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, S. Maldera, P. Fusco, G. Martí-Devesa, F. de Palma, Francesco Giordano, M. Negro, Dario Gasparrini, J. Ballet, Roger Blandford, I. Mereu, F. Loparco, Matthew Kerr, E. Orlando, S. J. Fegan, Dieter H. Hartmann, S. Cutini, David A. Green, Stefan Funk, D. Horan, George Chartas, Massimo Persic, Regina Caputo, Ronaldo Bellazzini, D. Serini, R. A. Cameron, Nicola Giglietto, P. Lubrano, I. A. Grenier, Guido Barbiellini, P. Bruel, D. Tak, M. N. Lovellette, Ioannis Liodakis, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Gabrijela Zaharijas, K. S. Wood, E. Troja, Elliott D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. J. Siskind, D. J. Suson, Luca Latronico, C. C. Cheung, P. de la Torre Luque, F. Gargano, E. Cavazzuti, Gloria Spandre, F. Dirirsa, L. Di Venere, M. Lemoine-Goumard, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Berretta, A., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caprioli, D., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Chartas, G., Chen, S., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De La Torre Luque, P., De Palma, F., Desai, A., Diesing, R., Di Lalla, N., Dirirsa, F., Di Venere, L., Dominguez, A., Fegan, S. J., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hartmann, D., Horan, D., Johannesson, G., Karwin, C., Kerr, M., Kovacevic, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marchesi, S., Marcotulli, L., Marti-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mereu, I., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Rain, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Serini, D., Sgr, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tak, D., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Wood, K., Zaharijas, G., Zrake, J., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), D???ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Dom??nguez, A., J??hannesson, G., Kova??evi??, M., Mart??-Devesa, G., Rain??, S., and Sgr??, C.
Subjects: Physics, Active galactic nuclei, Black hole, Black holes, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxies, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxie, Space and Planetary Science, Galactic winds, Galactic Winds, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gamma-rays, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: Massive black holes at the centers of galaxies can launch powerful wide-angle winds that, if sustained over time, can unbind the gas from the stellar bulges of galaxies. These winds may be responsible for the observed scaling relation between the masses of the central black holes and the velocity dispersion of stars in galactic bulges. Propagating through the galaxy, the wind should interact with the interstellar medium creating a strong shock, similar to those observed in supernovae explosions, which is able to accelerate charged particles to high energies. In this work we use data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope to search for the γ-ray emission from galaxies with an ultrafast outflow (UFO): a fast (v ∼ 0.1 c), highly ionized outflow, detected in absorption at hard X-rays in several nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN). Adopting a sensitive stacking analysis we are able to detect the average γ-ray emission from these galaxies and exclude that it is due to processes other than UFOs. Moreover, our analysis shows that the γ-ray luminosity scales with the AGN bolometric luminosity and that these outflows transfer ∼0.04% of their mechanical power to γ-rays. Interpreting the observed γ-ray emission as produced by cosmic rays (CRs) accelerated at the shock front, we find that the γ-ray emission may attest to the onset of the wind-host interaction and that these outflows can energize charged particles up to the transition region between galactic and extragalactic CRs., Ajello, M., et al., M.A. and C.K. acknowledge support from NSF and NASA through grants AST-1715256, 80NSSC21K1915, and 80NSSC18K1718. R.D. and D.C. acknowledge the Eugene & Niesje Parker Fellowship Fund, NASA (grants NNX17AG30G, 80NSSC18K1218, and 80NSSC18K1726) and the NSF (grants AST-1714658, AST-1909778). G.C. acknowledges financial support from NASA grants 80NSSC20K0438 and 80NSSC19K095.
Published: 2021
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25. Unusual Flaring Activity in the Blazar PKS 1424-418 During 2008-2011

Author: S Buson, F Longo, S Larsson, S Cutini, J Finke, S Ciprini, Roopesh Ojha, F D'Ammando, D Donato, D J Thompson, R Desiante, D Bastieri, S Wagner, M Hauser, L Fuhrmann, M Dutka, C Mueller, M Dadler, E Angelaskis, J A Zesus, J Stevens, J M Blanchard, P G Edwards, J E J Lovell, M A Gurwell, A E Wehrle, and A Zook
Subjects: Astrophysics
Abstract: Blazars are a subset of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets that are oriented along our line of sight. Variability and spectral energy distribution (SED) studies are crucial tools for understanding the physical processes responsible for observed AGN emission. Aims. We report peculiar behavior in the bright gamma-ray blazar PKS 1424-418 and use its strong variability to reveal information about the particle acceleration and interactions in the jet. Methods. Correlation analysis of the extensive optical coverage by the ATOM telescope and nearly continuous -ray coverage by the Fermi Large Area Telescope is combined with broadband, time-dependent modeling of the SED incorporating supplemental information from radio and X-ray observations of this blazar. Results. We analyse in detail four bright phases at optical-GeV energies. These flares of PKS 1424-418 show high correlation between these energy ranges, with the exception of one large optical flare that coincides with relatively low -ray activity. Although the optical/gamma-ray behavior of PKS 1424-418 shows variety, the multiwavelength modeling indicates that these differences can largely be explained by changes in the flux and energy spectrum of the electrons in the jet that are radiating. We find that for all flares the SED is adequately represented by a leptonic model that includes inverse Compton emission from external radiation fields with similar parameters. Conclusions. Detailed studies of individual blazars like PKS 1424-418 during periods of enhanced activity in different wavebands are helping us identify underlying patterns in the physical parameters in this class of AGN.
Published: 2014
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26. Anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi LAT

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, T. J. Brandt, J. Bregeon, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, P. A. Caraveo, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, S. W. Digel, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, R. Dubois, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, P. Fortin, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, T. Grégoire, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, D. Hadasch, M. Hayashida, K. Hayashi, X. Hou, R. E. Hughes, G. Jóhannesson, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, J. Knödlseder, M. Kuss, J. Lande, L. Latronico, M. Lemoine-Goumard, T. Linden, A. M. Lionetto, M. Llena Garde, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Naumann-Godo, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. H. Panetta, D. Parent, V. Pavlidou, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, G. Pivato, S. Rainò, R. Rando, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, M. Roth, C. Sbarra, J. Schmitt, C. Sgrò, J. Siegal-Gaskins, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, A. W. Strong, D. J. Suson, H. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, M. Tinivella, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, T. L. Usher, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vasileiou, G. Vianello, V. Vitale, A. P. Waite, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, Z. Yang, S. Zimmer, and E. Komatsu
Published: 2012
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27. Measurement of Separate Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, A. Bouvier, J. Bregeon, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, C. C. Cheung, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, S. Cutini, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, S. W. Digel, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, W. B. Focke, P. Fortin, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, P. Giommi, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, D. Hadasch, A. K. Harding, M. Hayashida, R. E. Hughes, G. Jóhannesson, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, J. Knödlseder, M. Kuss, J. Lande, L. Latronico, M. Lemoine-Goumard, M. Llena Garde, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, A. A. Moiseev, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, T. Nakamori, P. L. Nolan, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, M. Ohno, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, D. Paneque, D. Parent, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, T. Reposeur, S. Ritz, R. W. Romani, M. Roth, H. F.-W. Sadrozinski, C. Sbarra, T. L. Schalk, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, A. W. Strong, H. Takahashi, T. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, J. G. Thayer, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, M. Tinivella, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, Y. Uchiyama, T. L. Usher, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vasileiou, G. Vianello, V. Vitale, A. P. Waite, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, Z. Yang, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2012
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28. Erratum: First Fermi-LAT Solar Flare Catalog (2021, ApJS, 252, 13)

Author: E. Hays, G. Jóhannesson, M. Orienti, G. Zaharijas, G. Martí-Devesa, S. Larsson, Massimo Persic, Carmelo Sgrò, Luca Latronico, M. N. Lovellette, E. Troja, E. Orlando, David Paneque, S. Rainò, M. Kuss, Vahé Petrosian, R. Desiante, F. D'Ammando, Giacomo Principe, M. Negro, Miloš Kovačević, D. Green, Sara Buson, J. W. Hewitt, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Spinelli, Seb. Funk, F. de Palma, J. Li, D. Bastieri, Marcello Giroletti, T. A. Porter, Regina Caputo, A. Morselli, S. Maldera, Luca Baldini, R. A. Cameron, E. Cavazzuti, Nicola Omodei, M. E. Monzani, D. Serini, T. Mizuno, P. Bruel, Gloria Spandre, Marco Ajello, R. Bonino, D. Tak, P. Fusco, Z. Pei, S. Cutini, Sylvain Guiriec, Igor V. Moskalenko, N. Di Lalla, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, R. Bellazzini, F. Piron, R. Rando, Mn Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, L. Di Venere, G. Chiaro, D. Gasparrini, C. C. Cheung, P. Lubrano, S. J. Fegan, J. L. Racusin, Ferdinando Giordano, D. Costantin, Soebur Razzaque, J. Valverde, Elisabetta Bissaldi, I. Mereu, Roger Blandford, A. Berretta, A. Reimer, F. Longo, Alberto Manfreda, M. Razzano, F. Gargano, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, E. J. Siskind, F. Fana Dirirsa, Bindu Rani, and K. S. Wood
Subjects: Physics, Solar flare, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Published: 2021
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29. Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, J. Bregeon, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, T. H. Burnett, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, B. Cañadas, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, S. Cutini, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, S. W. Digel, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, A. Drlica-Wagner, L. Falletti, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Gehrels, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, D. Hadasch, M. Hayashida, E. Hays, R. E. Hughes, T. E. Jeltema, G. Jóhannesson, R. P. Johnson, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, J. Knödlseder, M. Kuss, J. Lande, L. Latronico, A. M. Lionetto, M. Llena Garde, F. Longo, F. Loparco, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, J. Mehault, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Naumann-Godo, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, A. Okumura, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, D. Paneque, D. Parent, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, S. Profumo, S. Rainò, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, S. Ritz, M. Roth, H. F.-W. Sadrozinski, C. Sbarra, J. D. Scargle, T. L. Schalk, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, L. Strigari, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, H. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, J. G. Thayer, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, L. Tibaldo, M. Tinivella, D. F. Torres, E. Troja, Y. Uchiyama, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vasileiou, G. Vianello, V. Vitale, A. P. Waite, P. Wang, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, Z. Yang, S. Zimmer, M. Kaplinghat, and G. D. Martinez
Published: 2011
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30. Constraints on dark matter models from a Fermi LAT search for high-energy cosmic-ray electrons from the Sun

Author: M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, E. Bonamente, A. W. Borgland, E. Bottacini, A. Bouvier, J. Bregeon, M. Brigida, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, P. A. Caraveo, C. Cecchi, E. Charles, A. Chekhtman, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, S. Cutini, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, C. D. Dermer, S. W. Digel, E. do Couto e Silva, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, W. B. Focke, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, N. Gehrels, S. Germani, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, D. Hadasch, G. Iafrate, G. Jóhannesson, A. S. Johnson, T. Kamae, H. Katagiri, J. Kataoka, M. Kuss, L. Latronico, A. M. Lionetto, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Naumann-Godo, J. P. Norris, E. Nuss, T. Ohsugi, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, M. Ozaki, D. Paneque, J. H. Panetta, M. Pesce-Rollins, M. Pierbattista, F. Piron, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, S. Ritz, T. L. Schalk, C. Sgrò, J. Siegal-Gaskins, E. J. Siskind, P. D. Smith, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Takahashi, T. Tanaka, J. G. Thayer, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, G. Tosti, E. Troja, T. L. Usher, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vasileiou, G. Vianello, N. Vilchez, A. P. Waite, P. Wang, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, Z. Yang, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2011
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31. The Fourth Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: Michael Kreter, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Leonid Petrov, E. Nuss, M. Kuss, Nicola Omodei, M. Orienti, Diego F. Torres, M. Yassine, E. Hays, Francesco Massaro, G. Jóhannesson, L. S. Ojha, S. Harita, Frank K. Schinzel, Marco Ajello, E. Orlando, S. Maldera, B. Lott, R. Itoh, Jean Ballet, S. Garrappa, G. Martí-Devesa, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, Francesco Longo, Manuel Meyer, Eleonora Torresi, R. Bonino, Giacomo Principe, Stefano Ciprini, J. Li, E. Troja, Marcello Giroletti, Nestor Mirabal, A. Reimer, Stefan Funk, P. van Zyl, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Eugenio Bottacini, J. F. Ormes, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, Elliott D. Bloom, C. Leto, F. Fana Dirirsa, N. Di Lalla, C. C. Cheung, J. Valverde, Stefan Larsson, Sylvain Guiriec, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, Z. Pei, A. Morselli, Igor V. Moskalenko, Soebur Razzaque, P. de la Torre Luque, Mn Mazziotta, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Olaf Reimer, Justin D. Finke, I. A. Grenier, M. Razzano, F. de Palma, Filippo D'Ammando, D. J. Suson, D. Costantin, Nicola Giglietto, Yutaro Tachibana, Vaidehi S. Paliya, F. Loparco, R. Angioni, E. Cavazzuti, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, J. Becerra González, H. Poon, Gloria Spandre, E. J. Siskind, Giulia Migliori, Aaron Dominguez, Elisabetta Bissaldi, R. A. Cameron, David A. Green, Rodrigo Nemmen, D. J. Thompson, D. Horan, P. Bruel, Magnus Axelsson, R. de Menezes, Anna Franckowiak, S. Buson, Ioannis Liodakis, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Spinelli, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Francesco Giordano, Fabio Cafardo, Bindu Rani, Dario Gasparrini, Felicia Krauss, Abhishek Desai, Sina Chen, L. Di Venere, Roopesh Ojha, H. A. Peña-Herazo, Massimo Persic, D. Serini, Guido Barbiellini, I. Mereu, S. Cutini, M. E. Monzani, M. Negro, Miloš Kovačević, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Department of Energy (US), Commissariat à l'Ènergie Atomique et aux Ènergies Alternatives (France), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (France), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (Japan), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Research Council, Swedish National Space Board, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Ajello, M., Angioni, R., Axelsson, M., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cafardo, F., Cameron, R. A., Cavazzuti, E., Chen, S., Cheung, C. C., Ciprini, S., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De La Torre Luque, P., De Menezes, R., De Palma, F., Desai, A., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Dominguez, A., Dirirsa, F. F., Ferrara, E. C., Finke, J., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Garrappa, S., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Harita, S., Hays, E., Horan, D., Itoh, R., Johannesson, G., Kovac'Evic', M., Krauss, F., Kreter, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Leto, C., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Madejski, G. M., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marti-Devesa, G., Massaro, F., Mazziotta, M. N., Mereu, I., Meyer, M., Migliori, G., Mirabal, N., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nemmen, R., Nuss, E., Ojha, L. S., Ojha, R., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paliya, V. S., Pei, Z., Peña-Herazo, H., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrov, L., Piron, F., Poon, H., Principe, G., Raino, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Schinzel, F. K., Serini, D., Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tachibana, Y., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Troja, E., Valverde, J., Van Zyl, P., Yassine, M., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), and 33379009 - Kreter, Michael
Subjects: galaxies [Gamma rays], Astrophysics, Blazar, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, observations [Gamma rays], Spitzer Space Telescope, Astrophysical jet, law, Relativistic jet, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Quasar, Physics, education.field_of_study, Galaxies: active, Quasars: general, Gamma rays: galaxies, Gamma-ray source, BL Lacertae objects, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Active galactic nucleus, active [Galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, BL Lacertae objetcs: general, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Gamma rays: observations, Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, Active galactic nuclei, Blazars, Gamma-ray sources, Relativistic jets, Quasars, education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [Quasars], Astronomy and Astrophysics, general [BL Lacertae objetcs], [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Galaxies: jets, Space and Planetary Science, jets [Galaxies], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains 2863 objects located at high Galactic latitudes (|b| > 10°). It includes 85% more sources than the previous 3LAC catalog based on 4 yr of data. AGNs represent at least 79% of the high-latitude sources in the fourth Fermi-Large Area Telescope Source Catalog (4FGL), which covers the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV. In addition, 344 gamma-ray AGNs are found at low Galactic latitudes. Most of the 4LAC AGNs are blazars (98%), while the remainder are other types of AGNs. The blazar population consists of 24% Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs), 38% BL Lac-type objects, and 38% blazar candidates of unknown types (BCUs). On average, FSRQs display softer spectra and stronger variability in the gamma-ray band than BLQLacs do, confirming previous findings. All AGNs detected by ground-based atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes are also found in the 4LAC., The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat `a l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucl´eaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE- AC02-76SF00515. This research has made use of data obtained from the high-energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; the SIMBAD database operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France; the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research has made use of data archives, catalogs and software tools from the ASDC, a facility managed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Part of this work is based on the NVSS (NRAO VLA Sky Survey). The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is operated by Associated Universities, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.
Published: 2020
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32. Systematic search for gamma-ray periodicity in active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: Sara Buson, Anna Franckowiak, Bindu Rani, Jorge Otero-Santos, S. Cutini, Juan Abel Barrio, Pablo Peñil, Rodrigo Nemmen, Marco Ajello, Aaron Dominguez, and E. Cavazzuti
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Likelihood analysis, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Gamma ray, Sigma, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, Space and Planetary Science, Física nuclear, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Systematic search
Abstract: We use nine years of gamma-ray data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to systematically study the light curves of more than two thousand active galactic nuclei (AGN) included in recent Fermi-LAT catalogs. Ten different techniques are used, which are organized in an automatic periodicity-search pipeline, in order to search for evidence of periodic emission in gamma rays. Understanding the processes behind this puzzling phenomenon will provide a better view about the astrophysical nature of these extragalactic sources. However, the observation of temporal patterns in gamma-ray light curves of AGN is still challenging. Despite the fact that there have been efforts on characterizing the temporal emission of some individual sources, a systematic search for periodicities by means of a full likelihood analysis applied to large samples of sources was missing. Our analysis finds 11 AGN, of which 9 are identified for the first time, showing periodicity at more than 4sigma in at least four algorithms. These findings will help in solving questions related to the astrophysical origin of this periodic behavior., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables. Accepted by ApJ
Published: 2020
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33. Bright Gamma-Ray Flares Observed in GRB 131108A

Author: M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, K. Asano, M. Axelsson, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, S. Chen, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, D. Costantin, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, P. de la Torre Luque, F. de Palma, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, F. Fana Dirirsa, S. J. Fegan, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, M.-H. Grondin, S. Guiriec, E. Hays, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, D. Kocevski, M. Kovac’evic’, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, J. E. McEnery, I. Mereu, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, E. Moretti, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, E. Nuss, M. Ohno, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, E. Orlando, M. Palatiello, V. S. Paliya, D. Paneque, Z. Pei, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, H. Poon, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Tajima, K. Takagi, D. Tak, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, K. Wood, R. Yamazaki, M. Yassine, S. Zhu, Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ajello, M., Arimoto, M., Asano, K., Axelsson, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Berretta, A., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Chen, S., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D’Ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Fana Dirirsa, F., Fegan, S. J., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grondin, M. -H., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kocevski, D., Kovac’Evic’, M., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Martí-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Mereu, I., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Palatiello, M., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Pei, Z., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Poon, H., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Serini, D., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tajima, H., Takagi, K., Tak, D., Torres, D. F., Valverde, J., Wood, K., Yamazaki, R., Yassine, M., Zhu, S., Lucas Uhm, Z., Zhang, Bing, and Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Flux, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, GRB131108A, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Light curve, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], gamma rays bursts, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Flare
Abstract: GRB 131108A is a bright long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by the Large Area Telescope and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Dedicated temporal and spectral analyses reveal three $\gamma$-ray flares dominating above 100 MeV, which are not directly related to the prompt emission in the GBM band (10 keV - 10 MeV). The high-energy light curve of GRB 131108A (100 MeV - 10 GeV) shows an unusual evolution: a steep decay, followed by three flares with an underlying emission, and then a long-lasting decay phase. The detailed analysis of the $\gamma$-ray flares finds that the three flares are 6 - 20 times brighter than the underlying emission and are similar to each other. The fluence of each flare, (1.6 $\sim$ 2.0) $\times$ 10$^{-6}$ erg cm$^{-2}$, is comparable to that of emission during the steep decay phase, 1.7 $\times$ 10$^{-6}$ erg cm$^{-2}$. The total fluence from three $\gamma$-ray flares is 5.3 $\times$ 10$^{-6}$ erg cm$^{-2}$. The three $\gamma$-ray flares show properties similar to the usual X-ray flares that are sharp flux increases, occurring in $\sim$ 50\% of afterglows, in some cases well after the prompt emission. Also, the temporal and spectral indices during the early steep decay phase and the decaying phase of each flare show the consistency with a relation of the curvature effect ($\alpha$ = 2 + $\beta$), which is the first observational evidence of the high-latitude emission in the GeV energy band., Comment: ApJL, 10 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2019
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34. A Search for Cosmic-ray Proton Anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: Eleonora Troja, Soebur Razzaque, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Giacomo Principe, F. Piron, G. Chiaro, M. Kuss, Abhishek Desai, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Regina Caputo, T. A. Porter, E. Orlando, Dario Gasparrini, Hiroyasu Tajima, Keith Bechtol, S. Maldera, Stefano Ciprini, Ioannis Liodakis, E. J. Siskind, Francesco Longo, G. Martí-Devesa, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Matthew Meehan, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, V. S. Paliya, D. Serini, Diego F. Torres, M. Razzano, Yasushi Fukazawa, Filippo D'Ammando, A. Reimer, Justin Vandenbroucke, G. Jóhannesson, F. de Palma, Manuel Meyer, Alessandro Cuoco, Guido Barbiellini, P. Fusco, I. Mereu, T. J. Brandt, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Seth Digel, David A. Green, S. J. Fegan, Elizabeth Hays, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, D. J. Suson, S. Cutini, J. W. Hewitt, Eric Nuss, Sina Chen, Massimo Persic, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, G. Spandre, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, Mn Mazziotta, D. Costantin, Stephan Zimmer, David Paneque, Luca Latronico, P. de la Torre Luque, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Stefan Funk, Denis Bastieri, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Roger Blandford, Nicola Omodei, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, M. Orienti, L. Di Venere, F. Loparco, Nicola Giglietto, Aaron Dominguez, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, M. Yassine, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, P. Lubrano, S. Buson, J. Li, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Warit Mitthumsiri, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, F. Gargano, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Fermi-LAT, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Chen, S., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D’Ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Desai, A., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Domínguez, A., Fegan, S. J., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hayashi, K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kuss, M., Latronico, L., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Martí-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Meehan, M., Mereu, I., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Serini, D., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Vandenbroucke, J., Yassine, M., Zimmer, S., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Fermi-Lat Collaboration, T., D'Ammando, F., De La Torre Luque, P., De Palma, F., Dominguez, A., Johannesson, G., Marti-Devesa, G., Raino, S., Sgro, C., ITA, and USA
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Proton, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic cosmic rays, High-energy astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, cosmic radiation: anisotropy, GLAST, Galactic cosmic ray, law.invention, Telescope, Primary (astronomy), law, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: primary, p: energy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, p: cosmic radiation, anisotropy: dipole, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has amassed a large data set of primary cosmic-ray protons throughout its mission. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky survey capabilities make it an excellent instrument for studying cosmic-ray anisotropy. As a space-based survey instrument, the LAT is sensitive to anisotropy in both right ascension and declination, while ground-based observations only measure the anisotropy in right ascension. We present the results of the first ever proton anisotropy search using Fermi LAT. The data set uses eight years of data and consists of approximately 179 million protons above 78 GeV, enabling it to probe dipole anisotropy below an amplitude of $10^{-3}$, resulting in the most stringent limits on the declination dependence of the dipole to date. We measure a dipole amplitude $\delta = 3.9\pm1.5 \times 10^{-4}$ with a p-value of 0.01 (pre-trials) for protons with a minimum energy of 78 GeV. We discuss various systematic effects that could give rise to a dipole excess and calculate upper limits on the dipole amplitude as a function of minimum energy. The 95% CL upper limit on the dipole amplitude is $\delta_{UL}=1.3\times 10^{-3}$ for protons with a minimum energy of 78 GeV and $\delta_{UL}=1.2 \times 10^{-3}$ for protons with a minimum energy of 251 GeV., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, Contact authors: Matthew Meehan (mrmeehan@wisc.edu) and Justin Vandenbroucke (justin.vandenbroucke@wisc.edu)
Published: 2019
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35. Search for Spatial Extension in High-Latitude Sources Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: R. Buehler, J. Li, Marcello Giroletti, G. Tosti, I. A. Grenier, Regina Caputo, Soebur Razzaque, M. N. Mazziotta, E. Cavazzuti, Anna Franckowiak, Justin D. Finke, David H. Green, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hiroyasu Tajima, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Fusco, Gloria Spandre, T. J. Brandt, E. Hays, Diego F. Torres, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, M. Vogel, C. C. Cheung, G. Jóhannesson, J. Valverde, P. Lubrano, Jonathan Biteau, T. Reposeur, J. D. Magill, Manuel Meyer, Nicola Omodei, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, N. Di Lalla, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Luca Baldini, Bindu Rani, M. Palatiello, Stefano Ciprini, Luca Latronico, Sylvain Guiriec, T. A. Porter, F. Piron, R. Bonino, D. Costantin, Abhishek Desai, A. Reimer, Elliott D. Bloom, Vaidehi S. Paliya, L. Guillemot, S. Cutini, F. Loparco, J. F. Ormes, E. Orlando, Igor V. Moskalenko, Eric Charles, Ronaldo Bellazzini, D. J. Suson, K. S. Wood, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, M. E. Monzani, Dario Gasparrini, J. S. Perkins, Roger Blandford, Eugenio Bottacini, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Alberto Manfreda, Massimo Persic, J. Ballet, C. Favuzzi, Nicola Giglietto, Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Filippo D'Ammando, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, E. J. Siskind, J. Bregeon, J. W. Hewitt, Guido Barbiellini, Denis Bastieri, Julie McEnery, M. Orienti, Markus Ackermann, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, S. Maldera, L. Tibaldo, F. Gargano, Stefan Larsson, M. Di Mauro, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Tonia M. Venters, Matthew Wood, Daniel Castro, F. de Palma, G. Chiaro, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Stefan Funk, Giacomo Principe, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Castro, D., Cavazzuti, E., Charles, E., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desai, A., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Favuzzi, C., Finke, J., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kensei, S., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Meyer, M., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Palatiello, M., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Valverde, J., Venters, T. M., Vogel, M., Wood, K., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Biteau, J., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ITA
Subjects: catalog, Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: general, catalogs, gamma rays: general, ISM: H II Regions, ISM: supernova remnants, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, H II Region [ISM], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Background radiation, Physics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, general [BL Lacertae objects], Astronomy and Astrophysic, Supernova, Crab Nebula, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ISM: H ii Regions, ddc:520, Intergalactic travel, supernova remnant [ISM], Halo, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal / Supplement series 237(2), 32 (2018). doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aacdf7, We present a search for spatial extension in high-latitude ($| b| \gt 5^\circ $) sources in recent Fermi point source catalogs. The result is the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Catalog, which provides source extensions (or upper limits thereof) and likelihood profiles for a suite of tested source morphologies. We find 24 extended sources, 19 of which were not previously characterized as extended. These include sources that are potentially associated with supernova remnants and star-forming regions. We also found extended $γ$-ray emission in the vicinity of the Cen A radio lobes and—at GeV energies for the first time—spatially coincident with the radio emission of the SNR CTA 1, as well as from the Crab Nebula. We also searched for halos around active galactic nuclei, which are predicted from electromagnetic cascades induced by the $e^+ e^−$ pairs that are deflected in intergalactic magnetic fields. These pairs are produced when γ-rays interact with background radiation fields. We do not find evidence for extension in individual sources or in stacked source samples. This enables us to place limits on the flux of the extended source components, which are then used to constrain the intergalactic magnetic field to be stronger than $3 × 10^{−16} G$ for a coherence length $λ \gtrsim$ 10 kpc, even when conservative assumptions on the source duty cycle are made. This improves previous limits by several orders of magnitude., Published by IOP, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2018
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36. The observation of gamma ray bursts and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes with AGILE

Author: Paolo Lipari, B. Preger, Francesco Longo, S. Sabatini, C. Pittori, Fulvio Gianotti, E. Vallazza, Andrea Bulgarelli, F. Fuschino, Enrico Costa, F. Verrecchia, P. Picozza, Maura Pilia, G. Piano, M. Trifoglio, S. Vercellone, I. Donnarumma, M. Prest, Alessio Trois, G. Pucella, G. Di Cocco, F. Boffelli, S. Cutini, A. W. Chen, Paolo Soffitta, M. Gallil, E. Striani, P. A. Caraveo, Y. Evangelista, Francesco Lazzarotto, P. Santolamazza, Massimo Rapisarda, F. Perotti, I. Lapshov, Giacomo Vianello, Claudio Labanti, A. Morselli, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, L. Salotti, P. W. Cattaneo, Paolo Giommi, Elena Moretti, A. Pellizzoni, Sandro Mereghetti, A. Rappoldi, A. Giuliani, Guido Barbiellini, V. Vittorini, Martino Marisaldi, L. A. Antonelli, Marco Tavani, E. Del Monte, E., Del Monte, G., Barbiellini, F., Fuschino, A., Giuliani, Longo, Francesco, M., Marisaldi, S., Mereghetti, E., Moretti, M., Trifoglio, G., Vianello, E., Costa, I., Donnarumma, Y., Evangelista, M., Feroci, M., Gallil, I., Lapshov, F., Lazzarotto, P., Lipari, L., Pacciani, M., Rapisarda, P., Soffitta, M., Tavani, S., Vercellone, S., Cutini, F., Boffelli, A., Bulgarelli, P., Caraveo, P. W., Cattaneo, A., Chen, Cocco, G., F., Gianotti, C., Labanti, A., Morselli, A., Pellizzoni, F., Perotti, G., Piano, P., Picozza, M., Pilia, M., Prest, G., Pucella, A., Rappoldi, S., Sabatini, E., Striani, A., Troi, E., Vallazza, V., Vittorini, L. A., Antonelli, C., Pittori, B., Preger, P., Santolamazza, F., Verrecchia, P., Giommi, and L., Salotti
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy, Field of view, AGILE, gamma ray bursts, short gamma transient, silicon tracker, Astrophysics, Statistical Confidence, Gamma-ray Bursts, Gamma-ray Burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, Instrumentation, Silicon microstrip detectors, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Since its early phases of operation, the AGILE mission is successfully observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the hard X-ray band with the SuperAGILE imager and in the MeV range with the Mini-Calorimeter. Up to now, three firm GRB detections were obtained above 25 MeV and some bursts were detected with lower statistical confidence in the same energy band. When a GRB is localized, either by SuperAGILE or Swift/BAT or INTEGRAL/IBIS or Fermi/GBM or IPN, inside the field of view of the Gamma Ray Imager of AGILE, a detection is searched for in the gamma ray band or an upper limit is provided. A promising result of AGILE is the detection of very short gamma ray transients, a few ms in duration and possibly identified with Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes. In this paper we show the current status of the observation of Gamma Ray Bursts and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes with AGILE., Four pages and four figures
Published: 2011
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37. Fermi-LAT Observations of LIGO/Virgo Event GW170817

Author: G. Chiaro, Marco Ajello, Diego F. Torres, Stefano Ciprini, J. B. Thayer, G. Jóhannesson, E. Moretti, Eleonora Troja, Nicola Omodei, Ronaldo Bellazzini, R. Buehler, E. J. Siskind, J. F. Ormes, Chong Yang, L. Guillemot, E. Orlando, T. J. Brandt, Stefan Funk, J. Li, Peter F. Michelson, Magnus Axelsson, L. R. Cominsky, Igor V. Moskalenko, Elliott D. Bloom, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, Marcello Giroletti, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, F. Loparco, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, A. Chekhtman, Johan Bregeon, P. Lubrano, Francesco Longo, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, R. A. Cameron, J. L. Racusin, A. Reimer, Nicola Giglietto, E. Nuss, David Paneque, C. Favuzzi, Gloria Spandre, M. Kuss, Vahé Petrosian, Giacomo Principe, James Chiang, F. de Palma, F. Gargano, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, P. Fusco, L. Di Venere, Roger Blandford, Hiroyasu Tajima, Roopesh Ojha, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Denis Bastieri, Luca Latronico, K. S. Wood, J. G. Thayer, M. Di Mauro, Gino Tosti, D. Dumora, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, B. Berenji, Giacomo Vianello, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, J. M. Casandjian, R. Bonino, J. Granot, Steven Ritz, D. J. Suson, T. H. Burnett, C. C. Cheung, F. Piron, J. Valverde, Alice K. Harding, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Tonia M. Venters, G. La Mura, Regina Caputo, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, M. Takahashi, M. Palatiello, M. E. Monzani, M. N. Mazziotta, D. Tak, Sylvain Guiriec, R. Gill, Anna Franckowiak, D. Costantin, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Vaidehi S. Paliya, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. M. Saz Parkinson, J. D. Magill, Soebur Razzaque, Alice Allafort, Elisabetta Bissaldi, P. Bruel, Matthew G. Baring, Sara Buson, T. A. Porter, Daniel Kocevski, Fumiya Imazato, T. Glanzman, R. Dubois, E. Hays, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, F. Spada, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Dario Gasparrini, Stefan Larsson, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Alessandro Cuoco, M.-H. Grondin, S. Maldera, T. Kamae, Eleonora Torresi, Massimo Persic, Felix Ryde, Guido Barbiellini, L. S. Rochester, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, ITA, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ajello, M., Allafort, A., Axelsson, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Baring, M. G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Berenji, B., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Burnett, T. H., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Casandjian, J. M., Cavazzuti, E., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Costantin, D., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Palma, F. De, Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Dubois, R., Dumora, D., Favuzzi, C., Ferrara, E. C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Gill, R., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Granot, J., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grondin, M. -H., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Horan, D., Imazato, F., Jóhannesson, G., Kamae, T., Kensei, S., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ojha, R., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Palatiello, M., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Ritz, S., Rochester, L. S., Ryde, F., Parkinson, P. M. Saz, Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, M., Tak, D., Thayer, J. G., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Valverde, J., Venters, T. M., Vianello, G., Wood, K., Yang, C., Zaharijas, G., Raunvísindastofnun (HÍ), Science Institute (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES)
Subjects: neutron star: binary, Gammageislar, gamma-ray burst: general, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], 01 natural sciences, Gamma-ray, Luminosity, gamma rays: general, gravitational waves, gamma ray: flux, LIGO, gravitational wave, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, energy: high, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Gamma-ray burst: general, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Context (language use), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, gamma ray: burst, gravitational radiation: direct detection, GLAST, Gravitational waves, binary: coalescence, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Gravitational wave, Astronomy and Astrophysics, trigger, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Stjarneðlisfræði, redshift, Redshift, gravitational radiation detector, Neutron star, electromagnetic, VIRGO, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Space and Planetary Science, gravitational radiation: emission, ddc:520, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Publisher's version (útgefin grein), We present the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 and the associated short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) GRB 170817A detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor. The LAT was entering the South Atlantic Anomaly at the time of the LIGO/Virgo trigger (t GW) and therefore cannot place constraints on the existence of high-energy (E > 100 MeV) emission associated with the moment of binary coalescence. We focus instead on constraining high-energy emission on longer timescales. No candidate electromagnetic counterpart was detected by the LAT on timescales of minutes, hours, or days after the LIGO/Virgo detection. The resulting flux upper bound (at 95% C.L.) from the LAT is 4.5 × 10−10 erg cm−2 s−1 in the 0.1–1 GeV range covering a period from t GW + 1153 s to t GW + 2027 s. At the distance of GRB 170817A, this flux upper bound corresponds to a luminosity upper bound of 9.7 × 1043 erg s−1, which is five orders of magnitude less luminous than the only other LAT SGRB with known redshift, GRB 090510. We also discuss the prospects for LAT detection of electromagnetic counterparts to future gravitational-wave events from Advanced LIGO/Virgo in the context of GW170817/GRB 170817A., This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Published: 2018
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38. On the origin of gamma rays in Fermi blazars: beyond the broad line region

Author: G. Tosti, S. Cutini, L. Costamante, Elisa Antolini, and Andrea Tramacere
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Photon, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electron, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Reverberation mapping, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Line (formation), Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The gamma-ray emission in broad-line blazars is generally explained as inverse Compton (IC) radiation of relativistic electrons in the jet scattering optical-UV photons from the Broad Line Region (BLR), the so-called BLR External Compton scenario. We test this scenario on the Fermi gamma-ray spectra of 106 broad-line blazars detected with the highest significance or largest BLR, by looking for cut-off signatures at high energies compatible with gamma-gamma interactions with BLR photons. We do not find evidence for the expected BLR absorption. For 2/3 of the sources, we can exclude any significant absorption ($��_{max}5$). We conclude that for 9 out of 10 objects, the jet does not interact with BLR photons. Gamma-rays seem either produced outside the BLR most of the time, or the BLR is ~100x larger than given by reverberation mapping. This means that i) External Compton on BLR photons is disfavoured as the main gamma-ray mechanism, vs IC on IR photons from the torus or synchrotron self-Compton; ii) the Fermi gamma-ray spectrum is mostly intrinsic, determined by the interaction of the particle distribution with the seed-photons spectrum; iii) without suppression by the BLR, broad-line blazars can become copious emitters above 100 GeV, as demonstrated by 3C454.3. We expect the CTA sky to be much richer of broad-line blazars than previously thought., 28 pages (including 11 pages of online material), 8 figures, 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2018
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39. Gamma-ray blazars and active galactic nuclei seen by the Fermi-LAT

Author: D. Gasparrini, S. Cutini, E. Cavazzuti, S. Ciprini, and B. Lott
Subjects: Physics, Active galactic nucleus, Space and Planetary Science, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Blazar, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected with a test statistic (TS) greater than 25 using the first 4 years of data. The 3LAC includes 1591 AGNs located at high Galactic latitudes, |b| > 10 (with 28 duplicate associations, thus corresponding to 1563 gamma-ray sources among 2192 sources in the 3FGL catalog), a 71% increase over the second catalog based on 2 years of data. A very large majority of these AGNs (98%) are blazars. About half of the newly detected blazars are of unknown type, i.e., they lack spectroscopic information of sufficient quality to determine the strength of their emission lines. The general properties of the 3LAC sample confirm previous findings from earlier catalogs, but some new subclasses (e.g., intermediate- and high-synchrotron-peaked FSRQs) have now been significantly detected.
Published: 2014
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40. Long-term AGILE monitoring of the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918

Author: G. De Paris, A. Zambra, F. D'Ammando, M. Feroci, M. Fiorini, Dario Gasparrini, L. Pacciani, F. Longo, A. Rappoldi, E. Vallazza, F. Boffelli, M. Rapisarda, P. Picozza, A. Argan, F. Perotti, E. Del Monte, G. Pucella, A. Trois, Andrea Bulgarelli, I. Donnarumma, T. Froysland, P. Soffitta, A. Pellizzoni, Guido Barbiellini, Enrico Costa, Y. Evangelista, F. Lazzarotto, V. Vittorini, V. Cocco, P. Santolamazza, M. Trifoglio, A. Giuliani, Paolo Lipari, A. W. Chen, P. Giommi, F. Fuschino, S. Vercellone, C. Pittoril, M. Galli, F. Verrecchia, Martino Marisaldi, Sandro Mereghetti, P. W. Cattaneo, P. A. Caraveo, I. Lapshov, M. Prest, S. Colafrancesco, Marco Tavani, G. Piano, A. Morselli, Claudio Labanti, L. Salotti, D. Zanello, M. Marelli, G. Di Cocco, S. Cutini, Fulvio Gianotti, Bulgarelli A, Tavani M, Caraveo P, Chen AW, Gianotti F, Trifoglio M, Marelli M, Argan A, Barbiellini G, Boffelli F, Cattaneo PW, Cocco V, Costa E, DAmmando F, Del Monte E, De Paris G, Di Cocco G, Donnarumma I, Evangelista Y, Feroci M, Fiorini M, Froysland T, Fuschino F, Galli M, Giuliani A, Labanti C, Lapshov I, Lazzarotto F, Lipari P, Longo F, Marisaldi M, Mereghetti S, Morselli A, Pacciani L, Pellizzoni A, Perotti F, Piano G, Picozza P, Prest M, Pucella G, Rapisarda M, Rappoldi A, Soffitta P, Trois A, Vallazza E, Vercellone S, Vittorini V, Zambra A, Zanello D, Giommi P, Pittori C, Verrecchia F, Santolamazza P, Gasparrini D, Cutini S, Colafrancesco S, Salotti L, A., Bulgarelli, M., Tavani, P., Caraveo, A. W., Chen, F., Gianotti, M., Trifoglio, M., Marelli, A., Argan, G., Barbiellini, F., Boffelli, P. W., Cattaneo, V., Cocco, E., Costa, F., D'Ammando, E. D., Monte, G. D., Pari, G. D., Cocco, I., Donnarumma, Y., Evangelista, M., Feroci, M., Fiorini, T., Froysland, F., Fuschino, M., Galli, A., Giuliani, C., Labanti, I., Lapshov, F., Lazzarotto, P., Lipari, Longo, Francesco, M., Marisaldi, S., Mereghetti, A., Morselli, L., Pacciani, A., Pellizzoni, F., Perotti, G., Piano, P., Picozza, M., Prest, G., Pucella, M., Rapisarda, A., Rappoldi, P., Soffitta, A., Troi, E., Vallazza, S., Vercellone, V., Vittorini, A., Zambra, D., Zanello, P., Giommi, C., Pittori, F., Verrecchia, P., Santolamazza, D., Gasparrini, S., Cutini, S., Colafrancesco, and L., Salotti
Subjects: Photon, Field (physics), FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Field of view, Astrophysics, Unidentified Gamma-ray Source, Power law, High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy, AGILE gamma ray satellite, 3EG J1835+5918, Egret, Physics, biology, Astrophysics (astro-ph), Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, biology.organism_classification, Term (time), Space and Planetary Science, Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources, AGILE satellite, gamma rays: observations
Abstract: We present the AGILE gamma-ray observations of the field containing the puzzling gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918. This source is one of the most remarkable unidentified EGRET sources. An unprecedentedly long AGILE monitoring of this source yields important information on the positional error box, flux evolution, and spectrum. 3EG J1835+5918 has been in the AGILE field of view several times in 2007 and 2008 for a total observing time of 138 days from 2007 Sept 04 to 2008 June 30 encompassing several weeks of continuous coverage. With an exposure time approximately twice that of EGRET, AGILE confirms the existence of a prominent gamma-ray source (AGL J1836+5926) at a position consistent with that of EGRET, although with a remarkably lower average flux value for photon energies greater than 100 MeV. A 5-day bin temporal analysis of the whole data set of AGL J1836+5926 shows some evidence for variability of the gamma-ray flux. The source spectrum between 100 MeV and 1 GeV can be fitted with a power law with photon index in the range 1.6-1.7, fully consistent with the EGRET value. The faint X-ray source RX J1836.2+5925 that has been proposed as a possible counterpart of 3EG J1835+5918 is well within the AGILE error box. Future continuous monitoring (both by AGILE and GLAST) is needed to confirm the gamma-ray flux variability and to unveil the source origin, a subject that is currently being pursued through a multiwavelength search for counterparts., Comment: accepted for publication by Astron. & Astrophys, 4 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2008
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41. AGILE Detection of a Strong Gamma-Ray Flare from the Blazar 3C 454.3

Author: T. Froysland, Martino Marisaldi, G. De Paris, Dario Gasparrini, Fulvio Gianotti, F. Perotti, F. Mauri, L. Salotti, A. Zambra, M. Prest, S. Cutini, Francesco Longo, G. Di Cocco, Paolo Giommi, Francesco Lazzarotto, M. Galli, Piergiorgio Picozza, Paolo Soffitta, F. Verrecchia, Marco Tavani, A. Pellizzoni, D. Zanello, Massimo Rapisarda, Claudio Labanti, Alessio Trois, Sergio Colafrancesco, L. A. Antonelli, P. A. Caraveo, Sandro Mereghetti, A. Giuliani, S. Vercellone, M. Fiorini, I. Donnarumma, Guido Barbiellini, A. Morselli, F. D'Ammando, Y. Evangelista, Marco Feroci, Luigi Pacciani, Paolo Lipari, E. Vallazza, F. Fuschino, V. Cocco, V. Vittorini, E. Del Monte, M. Trifoglio, G. Pucella, I. Lapshov, A. Argan, Andrea Bulgarelli, Enrico Costa, A. W. Chen, C. Pittori, S., Vercellone, A. W., Chen, A., Giuliani, A., Bulgarelli, I., Donnarumma, I., Lapshov, M., Tavani, A., Argan, G., Barbiellini, P., Caraveo, V., Cocco, E., Costa, F., D'Ammando, E. D., Monte, G. D., Pari, G. D., Cocco, Y., Evangelista, M., Feroci, M., Fiorini, T., Froysland, F., Fuschino, M., Galli, F., Gianotti, C., Labanti, F., Lazzarotto, P., Lipari, Longo, Francesco, M., Marisaldi, F., Mauri, S., Mereghetti, A., Morselli, L., Pacciani, A., Pellizzoni, F., Perotti, P., Picozza, M., Prest, G., Pucella, M., Rapisarda, P., Soffitta, M., Trifoglio, A., Troi, E., Vallazza, V., Vittorini, A., Zambra, D., Zanello, C., Pittori, F., Verrecchia, D., Gasparrini, S., Cutini, P., Giommi, L. A., Antonelli, S., Colafrancesco, L., Salotti, Vercellone S, Chen AW, Giuliani A, Bulgarelli A, Donnarumma I, Lapshov I, Tavani M, Argan A, Barbiellini G, Caraveo P, Cocco V, Costa E, DAmmando F, Del Monte E, De Paris G, Di Cocco G, Evangelista Y, Feroci M, Fiorini M, Froysland T, Fuschino F, Galli M, Gianotti F, Labanti C, Lazzarotto F, Lipari P, Longo F, Marisaldi M, Mauri F, Mereghetti S, Morselli A, Pacciani L, Pellizzoni A, Perotti F, Picozza P, Prest M, Pucella G, Rapisarda M, Soffitta P, Trifoglio M, Trois A, Vallazza E, Vittorini V, Zambra A, Zanello D, Pittori C, Verrecchia F, Gasparrini D, Cutini S, Giommi P, Antonelli LA, Colafrancesco S, and Salotti L
Subjects: High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy, Active Galactic Nuclei, AGILE satellite, Agile, Photon, blazar, gamma and X-ray detection, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, law.invention, astro-ph, law, Blazar, Physics, Range (particle radiation), Astrophysics (astro-ph), Detector, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Space and Planetary Science, gamma rays: observations — quasars: individual (3C 454.3), Energy (signal processing), Flare
Abstract: We report the first blazar detection by the AGILE satellite. AGILE detected 3C 454.3 during a period of strongly enhanced optical emission in July 2007. AGILE observed the source with a dedicated repointing during the period 2007 July 24-30 with its two co-aligned imagers, the Gamma-Ray Imaging Detector and the hard X-ray imager Super-AGILE sensitive in the 30 MeV-50 GeV and 18-60 keV, respectively. Over the entire period, AGILE detected gamma-ray emission from 3C 454.3 at a significance level of 13.8-$\sigma$ with an average flux (E$>$100 MeV) of $(280 \pm 40) \times 10^{-8}$ photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The gamma-ray flux appears to be variable towards the end of the observation. No emission was detected by Super-AGILE in the energy range 20-60 keV, with a 3-$\sigma$ upper limit of $2.3 \times 10^{-3}$ photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. The gamma-ray flux level of 3C 454.3 detected by AGILE is the highest ever detected for this quasar and among the most intense gamma-ray fluxes ever detected from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars., Comment: Accepted by Astrophysical Journal Letters; 14 pages, 3 EPS Figures, 1 Table
Published: 2008
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42. Observations of M31 and M33 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope: A Galactic Center Excess in Andromeda?

Author: Jiancheng Wang, Diego F. Torres, Marco Ajello, S. Cutini, Jürgen Knödlseder, L. Latronico, F. Loparco, Ronaldo Bellazzini, R. A. Cameron, S. Rainò, J. F. Ormes, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, Jingcheng Li, G. Barbiellini, Andrea Albert, P. Spinelli, R. Buehler, P. Bruel, G. La Mura, Eric Charles, Xian Hou, Nicola Omodei, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. N. Mazziotta, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Francesco Longo, Jean Ballet, M. Caragiulo, F. Gargano, Giacomo Principe, Claudia Cecchi, D. Malyshev, Sylvain Guiriec, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Frederic Piron, E. J. Siskind, D. Simone, David Paneque, P. Martin, E. Orlando, M. Razzano, R. Bonino, Filippo D'Ammando, Johan Bregeon, K. Tanaka, A. Chekhtman, C. Favuzzi, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Nestor Mirabal, Elliott D. Bloom, P. Fusco, Matthew Wood, Warit Mitthumsiri, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, Francesco Giordano, Stefan Funk, P. Lubrano, F. Spada, R. Caputo, Igor V. Moskalenko, Stefan Larsson, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Olaf Reimer, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Tsunefumi Mizuno, S. W. Digel, G. Chiaro, R. Desiante, Ming Zhou, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, K. S. Wood, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, T. J. Brandt, L. Di Venere, E. Nuss, Gudlaugur Johannesson, M. E. Monzani, Lucas Guillemot, M. Ackermann, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, L. Tibaldo, Nicola Giglietto, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Massimo Persic, P. A. Caraveo, T. Glanzman, Denis Bastieri, S. Ciprini, F. de Palma, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Albert K. H. Kong, T. A. Porter, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Favuzzi, C., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hayashi, K., Hou, X., Jóhannesson, G., Kamae, T., Knödlseder, J., Kong, A. K. H., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Martin, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Persic, M., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, O., Sánchez Conde, M., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tanaka, K., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Wang, J. C., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Zhou, M., Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Hamburg] (DESY), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Clemson], Clemson University, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste (INFN, Sezione di Trieste), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova (INFN, Sezione di Padova), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari (INFN, sezione di Bari), Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (INFN, Sezione di Torino), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Zeuthen] (DESY), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), University of California-University of California, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica - Milano (IASF-MI), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Center, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia (INFN, Sezione di Perugia), George Mason University [Fairfax], Universita degli Studi di Padova, Istituto di Radioastronomia [Bologna] (IRA), Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Department of Astrophysics [Nagoya], Nagoya University, Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Science Institute, University of Iceland, University of Iceland [Reykjavik], Tokyo University of Science [Tokyo], Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Tsing Hua University [Hsinchu] (NTHU), DIEE, University of Cagliari, Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm] (KTH ), Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC), Mahidol University [Bangkok], Hiroshima University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata (INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Denver], University of Denver, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Leopold-Franzens Universitat Innsbruck, Stockholm University, NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc., Lattingtown, NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc. [Lattingtown], Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona] (ICE-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Rikkyo University [Tokyo], Università degli Studi di Udine - University of Udine [Italie], ITA, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Innsbruck [Innsbruck], Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bloom E D, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt T J, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Cameron R A, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Caraveo P A, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel S W, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Favuzzi C, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Green D, Grenier I A, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Hayashi K, Hou X, Jóhannesson G, Kamae T, Knödlseder J, Kong A K H, Kuss M, La Mura G, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Longo F, Loparco F, Lubrano P, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Martin P, Mazziotta M N, Michelson P F, Mirabal N, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Monzani M E, Morselli A, Moskalenko I V, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes J F, Paneque D, Persic M, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Porter T A, Principe G, Rainò S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer O, Sánchez-Conde M, Sgrò C, Simone D, Siskind E J, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Tanaka K, Tibaldo L, Torres D F, Troja E, Uchiyama Y, Wang J C, Wood K S, Wood M, Zaharijas G, Zhou M, National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Stanford University [Stanford], Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Istituto di Radioastronomia INAF, Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Astrophysics, Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC)
Subjects: Andromeda Galaxy, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], cosmic rays, gamma rays: galaxies, Local Group, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, galaxie [gamma rays], Interacting galaxy, 10. No inequality, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, cosmic ray, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Dwarf spheroidal galaxy, cosmic rays – gamma rays: galaxies – Local Group, Globular cluster, Elliptical galaxy, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Fermi LAT has opened the way for comparative studies of cosmic rays (CRs) and high-energy objects in the Milky Way (MW) and in other, external, star-forming galaxies. Using 2 yr of observations with the Fermi LAT, local Group galaxy M31 was detected as a marginally extended gamma-ray source, while only an upper limit (UL) has been derived for the other nearby galaxy M33. We revisited the gamma-ray emission in the direction of M31 and M33 using more than 7 yr of LAT Pass 8 data in the energy range 0.1-100 GeV, presenting detailed morphological and spectral analyses. M33 remains undetected and we computed an UL for it. This revised UL remains consistent with the observed correlation between gamma-ray luminosity and star-formation rate tracers and implies an average CR density in M33 that is at most half of that of the MW. M31 is detected with a significance of nearly 10 sigma and to be extended with 4 sigma. Its spectrum is consistent with a power law. The spatial distribution of the emission is consistent with a uniform disk with a radius of 0.4 deg and no offset from the center of M31, but nonuniform intensity distributions cannot be excluded. The flux from M31 appears confined to the inner regions of the galaxy and does not fill the disk or extend far from it. The gamma-ray signal is not correlated with regions rich in gas or star-formation activity suggesting that the emission is not interstellar in origin, unless the energetic particles radiating in gamma rays do not originate in recent star formation. Alternative and nonexclusive interpretations are that the emission results from a population of millisecond pulsars dispersed in the bulge and disk of M31 by disrupted globular clusters or from the decay or annihilation of dark matter particles, similar to what has been proposed to account for the so-called Galactic Center excess found in Fermi-LAT observations of the MW., Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables
Published: 2017
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43. The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter

Author: Dario Gasparrini, J. Ballet, Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, L. Latronico, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, K. Tanaka, P. Bruel, A. S. Johnson, S. W. Digel, T. Ohsugi, M. Orienti, M. Ackermann, Eric Charles, Eleonora Troja, D. Malyshev, Yasunobu Uchiyama, T. H. Burnett, Soebur Razzaque, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, Warit Mitthumsiri, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, John W. Hewitt, T. Jogler, G. Barbiellini, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, F. de Palma, D. J. Suson, W. B. Focke, T. J. Brandt, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Frederic Piron, Alice K. Harding, Diego F. Torres, Giacomo Principe, Alessandro Cuoco, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Matthew Wood, E. Orlando, L. Tibaldo, Jingcheng Li, James Chiang, Andrea Chiappo, Francesco Giordano, Nicola Giglietto, R. Desiante, Roger Blandford, M. Caragiulo, R. A. Cameron, P. Spinelli, R. Buehler, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Giacomo Vianello, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, M. N. Lovellette, J. Bregeon, P. A. Caraveo, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, Massimo Persic, Persis S. Drell, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, K. S. Wood, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, S. Rainò, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Elliott D. Bloom, Claudia Cecchi, Sylvain Guiriec, Andrea Albert, F. Spada, R. Caputo, F. Gargano, Hiroyasu Tajima, S. J. Fegan, Jan Conrad, Stefan Larsson, C. Favuzzi, G. La Mura, E. J. Siskind, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Gustafsson, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierrick Martin, J. D. Magill, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, Anna Franckowiak, Tsunefumi Mizuno, A. Reimer, E. Hays, Stephan Zimmer, G. Chiaro, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, D. Kocevski, T. Glanzman, F. Loparco, M. E. Monzani, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, S. Ciprini, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, J. F. Ormes, P. Fusco, Stefan Funk, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, D. Simone, David Paneque, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, L. Guillemot, E. Nuss, L. Di Venere, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. 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S., Kamae, T., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Martin, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Principe, G., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sanchez-Conde, M., Sgro, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Tanaka, K., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Vianello, G., Wood, K. 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Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Gomez Vargas, G. A., Mura, G. La, Longo, Francesco, Pesce Rollins, M., Rainò, S., Sánchez Conde, M., Sgrò, C., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ITA
Subjects: [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy: bulge, propagation, gamma ray: flux, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, cosmic ray, Physics, general [ISM], Galaxy: center, Galactic Center, center [Galaxy], gamma ray: emission, cosmic radiation, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, bulge [Galaxy], Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic rays, Galaxy: halo, gamma rays: general, ISM: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, cross section: annihilation, Galactic halo, gas, 0103 physical sciences, conservation law, halo [Galaxy], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, bubble, Astronomy, dark matter: annihilation, Galactic plane, Galaxy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The region around the Galactic center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and catalogs of known gamma-ray sources. We study the GeV excess using 6.5 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We characterize the uncertainty of the GC excess spectrum and morphology due to uncertainties in cosmic-ray source distributions and propagation, uncertainties in the distribution of interstellar gas in the Milky Way, and uncertainties due to a potential contribution from the Fermi bubbles. We also evaluate uncertainties in the excess properties due to resolved point sources of gamma rays. The Galactic center is of particular interest as it would be expected to have the brightest signal from annihilation of weakly interacting massive dark matter particles. However, control regions along the Galactic plane, where a dark-matter signal is not expected, show excesses of similar amplitude relative to the local background. Based on the magnitude of the systematic uncertainties, we conservatively report upper limits for the annihilation cross section as function of particle mass and annihilation channel., Comment: Contact authors: A. Albert, E. Charles, A. Franckowiak, D. Malyshev, L. Tibaldo. 63 pages, 34 figures. Published in ApJ
Published: 2017
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44. 3FHL: The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

Author: Igor V. Moskalenko, Lukasz Stawarz, Olaf Reimer, Seb. Funk, Diego F. Torres, Nicola Omodei, M. Razzano, M.-H. Grondin, Filippo D'Ammando, C. Favuzzi, M. Caragiulo, Alessandro Cuoco, E. J. Siskind, Jean Ballet, R. A. Cameron, F. Piron, Stefano Ciprini, J. M. Cohen, Alice K. Harding, M. N. Mazziotta, Seth Digel, Francesco Longo, R. Desiante, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, Elliott D. Bloom, Jingcheng Li, Pascal Bruel, R. Buehler, F. Spada, D. Horan, Aaron Dominguez, Stefan Larsson, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, F. Loparco, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, C. C. Cheung, N. Di Lalla, M. Di Mauro, Luca Baldini, M. Takahashi, T. Reposeur, Benoit Lott, Roger Blandford, P. Fusco, Sara Buson, D. J. Thompson, M. Palatiello, R. J. Britto, John W. Hewitt, F. de Palma, Sylvain Guiriec, R. Bonino, S. J. Fegan, A. Reimer, T. A. Porter, Matthew Wood, Johan Bregeon, Giacomo Principe, E. Orlando, Julie McEnery, Kent S. Wood, F. Gargano, Nestor Mirabal, P. Fortin, Soebur Razzaque, Luca Latronico, Giacomo Vianello, G. La Mura, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, J. G. Thayer, Regina Caputo, D. Costantin, D. Dumora, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, W. B. Atwood, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. E. Monzani, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, E. Hays, Anna Franckowiak, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, G. Chiaro, P. A. Caraveo, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, Persis S. Drell, J. D. Magill, Eric Charles, Manuel Meyer, D. J. Suson, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, I. A. Grenier, Dario Gasparrini, Warit Mitthumsiri, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, P. Spinelli, L. Di Venere, M. Lemoine-Goumard, Francesco Giordano, D. Tak, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, D. Simone, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, M. Orienti, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, Eleonora Torresi, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Lucas Guillemot, Guido Barbiellini, Paolo Giommi, Massimo Persic, T. Glanzman, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, Claudia Cecchi, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, P. M. Saz Parkinson, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Clemson], Clemson University, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), University of California-University of California, University of Pisa - Università di Pisa, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste (INFN, Sezione di Trieste), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova (INFN, Sezione di Padova), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), Stanford University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino (INFN, Sezione di Torino), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (MPI-P), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari (INFN, sezione di Bari), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Center, George Mason University [Fairfax], Universita degli Studi di Padova, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Science Institute, University of Iceland, University of Iceland [Reykjavik], Hiroshima City University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia (INFN, Sezione di Perugia), Laboratoire d'interaction du rayonnement X avec la matière (LIXAM), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Mahidol University [Bangkok], Hiroshima University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata (INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata), Istituto di Radioastronomia INAF, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), PPM Group [University of Johannesburg], Department of Geology [University of Johannesburg], University of Johannesburg (UJ)-University of Johannesburg (UJ), NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc., Lattingtown, NYCB Real-Time Computing Inc. 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A., Grondin, M. -H., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kensei, S., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Palatiello, M., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Sgro, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stawarz, L., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, M., Tak, D., Thayer, J. G., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K., Wood, M., National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Stanford University [Stanford], Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona [Barcelona] (UAB), ITA, University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Humboldt University Of Berlin, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and University of Johannesburg [South Africa] (UJ)-University of Johannesburg [South Africa] (UJ)
Subjects: catalog, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, catalogs, gamma rays: general, FOS: Physical sciences, Energy flux, Flux, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, catalogs – gamma rays: general, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, Galactic plane, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Redshift, Galaxy, Crab Nebula, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We present a catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the first 7 years of data using the Pass 8 event-level analysis. This is the Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources (3FHL), containing 1556 objects characterized in the 10 GeV - 2 TeV energy range. The sensitivity and angular resolution are improved by factors of 3 and 2 relative to the previous LAT catalog at the same energies (1FHL). The vast majority of detected sources (79%) are associated with extragalactic counterparts at other wavelengths, including 16 sources located at very high redshift ($z>2$). Eight percent of the sources have Galactic counterparts and 13% are unassociated (or associated with a source of unknown nature). The high-latitude sky and the Galactic plane are observed with a flux sensitivity of 4.4 to 9.5$\times 10^{-11}$ ph cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, respectively (this is approximately 0.5% and 1% of the Crab Nebula flux above 10 GeV). The catalog includes 214 new $\gamma$-ray sources. The substantial increase in the number of photons (more than 4 times relative to 1FHL and 10 times to 2FHL) also allows us to measure significant spectral curvature for 32 sources and find flux variability for 163 of them. Furthermore, we estimate that for the same flux limit of $10^{-12}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, the energy range above 10 GeV has twice as many sources as above 50 GeV, highlighting the importance, for future Cherenkov telescopes, of lowering the energy threshold as much as possible., Comment: Accepted by ApJS. Contact authors: Alberto Dominguez, Marco Ajello, Benoit Lott, Sara Cutini, Pascal Fortin. The full FITS catalog will be made available at the FSSC: https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/
Published: 2017
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45. Fermi-LAT Observations of High-energy Behind-the-limb Solar Flares

Author: Gudlaugur Johannesson, Lucas Guillemot, Giacomo Principe, T. Ohsugi, I. A. Grenier, L. K. Kashapova, M. E. Monzani, G. Barbiellini, M. Ackermann, C. Cecchi, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, S. Maldera, Francesco Longo, R. Desiante, Diego F. Torres, Elena Orlando, L. Latronico, Denis Bastieri, F. Spada, Valentin Pal'shin, P. Spinelli, Nicola Omodei, T. Jogler, R. Buehler, Giacomo Vianello, Jingcheng Li, C. Favuzzi, Marcello Giroletti, M. Caragiulo, S. Cutini, N. Di Lalla, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Igor V. Moskalenko, Frederic Piron, Olaf Reimer, Alice Allafort, R. A. Cameron, Eric Charles, F. Loparco, S. Ciprini, Vahé Petrosian, P. Lubrano, Nicola Giglietto, S. Rainò, S. W. Digel, Warit Mitthumsiri, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, Wei Liu, Hiroyasu Tajima, E. J. Siskind, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Francesco Giordano, Ronaldo Bellazzini, M. N. Mazziotta, F. Rubio da Costa, J. S. Perkins, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, G. La Mura, F. Costanza, Johan Bregeon, Tsunefumi Mizuno, F. Gargano, Luca Baldini, F. de Palma, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Yasushi Fukazawa, Stefan Larsson, Sylvain Guiriec, Eleonora Troja, Säm Krucker, R. Bonino, Elisabetta Bissaldi, P. Fusco, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, D. Simone, David Paneque, J. B. Thayer, J. D. Magill, E. Nuss, L. Di Venere, E. Cavazzuti, Gloria Spandre, P. Bruel, Ackermann, M., Allafort, A., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Ciprini, S., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fukazawa, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kashapova, L., Krucker, S., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Liu, W., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Pal'Shin, V., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, O., Costa, F. Rubio Da, Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier ( LUPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace ( LPC2E ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay ( USN ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Ackermann M, Allafort A, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Cameron R A, Caragiulo M, Caraveo P A, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Ciprini S, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel S W, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Drell P S, Favuzzi C, Fukazawa Y, Fusco P, Gargano F, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Grenier I A, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Jogler T, Jóhannesson G, Kashapova L, Krucker S, Kuss M, La Mura G, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Liu W, Longo F, Loparco F, Lubrano P, Magill J D, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mazziotta M N, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Monzani M E, Morselli A, Moskalenko I V, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orlando E, Pal’shin V, Paneque D, Perkins J S, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Principe G, Rainò S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer O, Rubio da Costa F, Sgrò C, Simone D, Siskind E J, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Tajima H, Thayer J B, Torres D F, Troja E, Vianello G, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ITA, and Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Sun: flares, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Sun: flares – Sun: X-rays, gamma rays, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, flare [Sun], law.invention, law, 0103 physical sciences, Coronal mass ejection, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Photosphere, Solar flare, Bremsstrahlung, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, gamma rays, Sun: X-rays, gamma rays, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 13. Climate action, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Physics::Space Physics, ddc:520, X-rays, gamma ray [Sun], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Sun: X-rays, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, Flare
Abstract: We report on the Fermi-LAT detection of high-energy emission from the behind-the-limb (BTL) solar flares that occurred on 2013 October 11, and 2014 January 6 and September 1. The Fermi-LAT observations are associated with flares from active regions originating behind both the eastern and western limbs, as determined by STEREO. All three flares are associated with very fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and strong solar energetic particle events. We present updated localizations of the >100 MeV photon emission, hard X-ray (HXR)and EUV images, and broadband spectra from 10 keV to 10 GeV, as well as microwave spectra. We also provide a comparison of the BTL flares detected by Fermi-LAT with three on-disk flares and present a study of some of the significant quantities of these flares as an attempt to better understand the acceleration mechanisms at work during these occulted flares. We interpret the HXR emission to be due to electron bremsstrahlung from a coronal thin-target loop top with the accelerated electron spectra steepening at semirelativistic energies. The >100 MeV gamma-rays are best described by a pion-decay model resulting from the interaction of protons (and other ions) in a thick-target photospheric source. The protons are believed to have been accelerated (to energies >10 GeV) in the CME environment and precipitate down to the photosphere from the downstream side of the CME shock and landed on the front side of the Sun, away from the original flare site and the HXR emission., 13 pages, 14 figures published on ApJ
Published: 2017
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46. Search for Extended Sources in the Galactic Plane Using Six Years of Fermi-Large Area Telescope Pass 8 Data above 10 GeV

Author: Gudlaugur Johannesson, Guido Barbiellini, J. W. Hewitt, Daniel Castro, F. de Palma, Claudia Cecchi, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, J. Ballet, Xian Hou, Elisabetta Bissaldi, E. Orlando, F. Loparco, E. Hays, T. A. Porter, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, Vahé Petrosian, Seth Digel, E. J. Siskind, J. Bregeon, Giacomo Principe, F. Piron, Marco Ajello, Francesco Longo, Nicola Omodei, M.-H. Grondin, Diego F. Torres, G. Tosti, Massimo Persic, J. B. Thayer, Soebur Razzaque, L. Di Venere, J. D. Magill, Giacomo Vianello, Alice K. Harding, Jingcheng Li, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, M. Lemoine-Goumard, M. Caragiulo, M. N. Mazziotta, S. Maldera, R. Desiante, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, R. Buehler, Denis Bastieri, J. F. Ormes, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Markus Ackermann, K. S. Wood, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, C. Favuzzi, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Dario Gasparrini, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, L. Guillemot, M. Di Mauro, T. J. Brandt, F. Spada, Stefan Larsson, M. E. Monzani, C. C. Cheung, S. Cutini, R. Bonino, D. Simone, E. Nuss, T. Reposeur, David Paneque, D. J. Thompson, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, M. Kuss, I. A. Grenier, D. Malyshev, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Stefano Ciprini, F. Gargano, Eric Charles, Gloria Spandre, J. S. Perkins, D. J. Suson, Elliott D. Bloom, Nicola Giglietto, Matthew Wood, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Stefan Funk, P. A. Caraveo, G. La Mura, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Monica Orienti, Sylvain Guiriec, Warit Mitthumsiri, D. Costantin, P. Spinelli, A. Reimer, Francesco Giordano, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Vaidehi S. Paliya, J. M. Cohen, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Anna Franckowiak, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, G. Chiaro, Yasushi Fukazawa, D. Tak, P. Fusco, S. J. Fegan, ITA, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Castro, D., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen, J. M., Costantin, D., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grondin, M. -H., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Hou, X., Jóhannesson, G., Kamae, T., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Sgro, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tak, D., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier ( LUPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan ( CENBG ), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace ( LPC2E ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay ( USN ), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
Subjects: catalog, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, catalogs, gamma rays: general, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, gamma ray: energy spectrum, GLAST, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral properties, Gamma ray, Function (mathematics), Galactic plane, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], gamma ray, spectral, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, acceptance
Abstract: International audience; The spatial extension of a γ-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties, as well as its potential multiwavelength counterpart. The capability to spatially resolve γ-ray sources is greatly improved by the newly delivered Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 event-level analysis, which provides a greater acceptance and an improved point-spread function, two crucial factors for the detection of extended sources. Here, we present a complete search for extended sources located within 7° from the Galactic plane, using 6 yr of Fermi-LAT data above 10 GeV. We find 46 extended sources and provide their morphological and spectral characteristics. This constitutes the first catalog of hard Fermi-LAT extended sources, named the Fermi Galactic Extended Source Catalog, which allows a thorough study of the properties of the Galactic plane in the sub-TeV domain.
Published: 2017
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47. Gamma-Ray Blazars within the First 2 Billion Years

Author: E. Nuss, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, L. Di Venere, Roopesh Ojha, R. A. Cameron, P. Spinelli, Igor V. Moskalenko, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, R. Buehler, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, D. Simone, David Paneque, Vaidehi S. Paliya, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Elliott D. Bloom, K. Tanaka, L. Marcotulli, M. Caragiulo, T. Jogler, G. Barbiellini, Gudlaugur Johannesson, M. N. Mazziotta, W. B. Focke, Frederic Piron, M. Razzano, Roger W. Romani, Filippo D'Ammando, P. Bruel, E. Orlando, P. Fusco, G. La Mura, D. J. Thompson, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, J. F. Ormes, Dario Gasparrini, S. Rainò, E. Hays, Francesco Giordano, W. Mitthumsiri, Jan Conrad, Lukasz Stawarz, Diego F. Torres, Giacomo Principe, G. Tosti, F. Spada, Giacomo Vianello, Stefan Larsson, C. C. Cheung, Monica Orienti, Stefan Funk, S. J. Fegan, C. S. Stalin, C. Favuzzi, K. S. Wood, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Dieter H. Hartmann, Francesco Longo, Bindu Rani, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Jingcheng Li, Massimo Persic, M. Ackermann, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, A. Reimer, J. D. Magill, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, M. Takahashi, Sylvain Guiriec, M. E. Monzani, S. Maldera, D. Costantin, F. Costanza, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Denis Bastieri, Eleonora Torresi, G. Chiaro, F. de Palma, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Aaron Dominguez, Soebur Razzaque, S. Ciprini, James Chiang, Justin D. Finke, L. Latronico, L. Guillemot, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Roger Blandford, J. Becerra González, J. Ballet, Elisabetta Bissaldi, A. S. Johnson, F. Gargano, Sara Buson, T. A. Porter, E. J. Siskind, S. Cutini, F. Loparco, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Nicola Omodei, P. Lubrano, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, J. Bregeon, D. J. Suson, S. W. Digel, R. Desiante, Claudia Cecchi, Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier ( LUPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace ( LPC2E ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay ( USN ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Fermi-LAT, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Cheung, C. C., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Conrad, J., Costantin, D., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Domínguez, A., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Finke, J., Focke, W. B., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hartmann, D. H., Hays, E., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marcotulli, L., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Ojha, R., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Romani, R. W., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stalin, C. S., Stawarz, L., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, M., Tanaka, K., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., ITA, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Radio galaxy, galaxies: active, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, quasars: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Population, jets [galaxies], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Astrophysical jet, 0103 physical sciences, galaxie [gamma rays], Blazar, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, education.field_of_study, general [quasars], Astronomy, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Black hole, jet [galaxies], [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galaxies [gamma rays], active [galaxies], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], high-redshift [galaxies]
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 837(1), L5 (2017). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa5fff, The detection of high-redshift ($z\,\gt 3$) blazars enables the study of the evolution of the most luminous relativistic jets over cosmic time. More importantly, high-redshift blazars tend to host massive black holes and can be used to constrain the space density of heavy black holes in the early universe. Here, we report the first detection with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope of five γ-ray-emitting blazars beyond z = 3.1, more distant than any blazars previously detected in γ-rays. Among these five objects, NVSS J151002+570243 is now the most distant known γ-ray-emitting blazar at z = 4.31. These objects have steeply falling γ-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs), and those that have been observed in X-rays have a very hard X-ray spectrum, both typical of powerful blazars. Their Compton dominance (ratio of the inverse Compton to synchrotron peak luminosities) is also very large ($\gt 20$). All of these properties place these objects among the most extreme members of the blazar population. Their optical spectra and the modeling of their optical-UV SEDs confirm that these objects harbor massive black holes (${M}_{\mathrm{BH}}\sim {10}^{8-10}\,{M}_{\odot }$). We find that, at $z\approx 4$, the space density of $\gt {10}^{9}\,{M}_{\odot }$ black holes hosted in radio-loud and radio-quiet active galactic nuclei are similar, implying that radio-loudness may play a key role in rapid black hole growth in the early universe., Published by Univ., Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2017
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48. The second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources from the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis

Author: L. Latronico, S. J. Fegan, M. Ackermann, Jean Ballet, C. Favuzzi, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, Roger Blandford, P. Bruel, M. E. Monzani, M. Razzano, Igor V. Moskalenko, Matteo Giomi, R. Bonino, Gino Tosti, Filippo D'Ammando, M. Di Mauro, Francesco Longo, Olaf Reimer, Dario Gasparrini, P. Fusco, Abhishek Desai, Nicola Omodei, K. Tanaka, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, Gudlaugur Johannesson, F. Spada, J. S. Perkins, Daniel Kocevski, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, C. C. Cheung, Vahé Petrosian, C. Cecchi, Giacomo Principe, D. Costantin, Janet Conrad, Lucas Guillemot, Luca Baldini, Johan Bregeon, W. B. Focke, F. Gargano, Frederic Piron, M. Takahashi, D. J. Suson, S. Abdollahi, T. A. Porter, R. A. Cameron, Marco Ajello, R. Buehler, A. Reimer, N. Di Lalla, I. A. Grenier, Sylvain Guiriec, Francesco Giordano, A. Franckowiak, M. Caragiulo, T. Ohsugi, Jingcheng Li, Monica Orienti, A. S. Johnson, A. Chekhtman, E. Cavazzuti, J. D. Magill, S. Buson, M. Kuss, Soebur Razzaque, Elizabeth Hays, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, David H. Green, G. Barbiellini, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, Stefan Funk, Eleonora Troja, Giacomo Vianello, D. Horan, Andrea Albert, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, W. Mitthumsiri, M. N. Lovellette, G. La Mura, Nicola Giglietto, T. Glanzman, Gloria Spandre, Massimo Persic, P. Lubrano, Tsunefumi Mizuno, S. W. Digel, S. Cutini, G. Chiaro, M. N. Mazziotta, E. J. Siskind, Stefan Larsson, P. A. Caraveo, E. D. Bloom, J. E. Grove, Persis S. Drell, Yasushi Fukazawa, Ronaldo Bellazzini, P. Spinelli, Kent S. Wood, T. Jogler, F. de Palma, Eleonora Torresi, E. Nuss, L. Di Venere, Michael Mayer, Lukasz Stawarz, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, F. Loparco, D. Simone, David Paneque, Diego F. Torres, Elena Orlando, J. Becerra González, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Vaidehi S. Paliya, S. Rainò, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, B. Donaggio, S. Ciprini, R. Desiante, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), ITA, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Abdollahi, S., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Becerra Gonzalez, J., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Conrad, J., Costantin, D., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Palma, F. De, Desai, A., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Donaggio, B., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giomi, M., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stawarz, L., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, M., Tanaka, K., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace ( LPC2E ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay ( USN ), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
Subjects: catalog, Active galactic nucleus, media_common.quotation_subject, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, law.invention, Telescope, photometric [techniques], techniques: photometric, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Variability, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astroparticle physics, catalogs, gamma rays: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, astroparticle physic, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], active [galaxies], ddc:520, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the entire sky observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \textit{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope. With respect to the first FAVA catalog, this catalog benefits from a larger data set, the latest LAT data release (Pass 8), as well as from an improved analysis that includes likelihood techniques for a more precise localization of the transients. Applying this analysis on the first 7.4 years of \textit{Fermi} observations, and in two separate energy bands 0.1$-$0.8 GeV and 0.8$-$300 GeV, a total of 4547 flares has been detected with a significance greater than $6\sigma$ (before trials), on the time scale of one week. Through spatial clustering of these flares, 518 variable gamma-ray sources are identified. Likely counterparts, based on positional coincidence, have been found for 441 sources, mostly among the blazar class of active galactic nuclei. For 77 2FAV sources, no likely gamma-ray counterpart has been found. For each source in the catalog, we provide the time, location, and spectrum of each flaring episode. Studying the spectra of the flares, we observe a harder-when-brighter behavior for flares associated with blazars, with the exception of BL Lac flares detected in the low-energy band. The photon indexes of the flares are never significantly smaller than 1.5. For a leptonic model, and under the assumption of isotropy, this limit suggests that the spectrum of the freshly accelerated electrons is never harder than $p\sim$2., Comment: Accepted for publication by The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. Online analysis results available at http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/lat/FAVA/index.php . Corresponding authors: M. Giomi, R. Buehler, D. Kocevski, and M. Ajello
Published: 2016
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49. The 3rd Catalog of AGN Detected by the Fermi LAT

Author: Dario Gasparrini, B. Lott, Stefano Ciprini, S. Cutini, and E. Cavazzuti
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Photon, Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Power law, Redshift, law.invention, Telescope, law, Test statistic, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Blazar, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third catalog (3FGL,\cite{3FGL}) of sources detected with a test statistic greater than 25, using the first 4 years of data. The 3LAC includes 1591 AGNs located at high ($|b|>10^\circ$) Galactic latitudes (with 28 duplicate associations, thus corresponding to 1563 gamma-ray sources among 2192 sources in the 3FGL catalog), providing $71\%$ more sources with respect to the 2FGL. Various properties, such as gamma-ray fluxes and photon power law spectral indices, redshifts, gamma-ray luminosities, variability, and their correlations are presented and discussed for the different blazar and non-blazar classes., 8 pages; in Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015), The Hague (The Netherlands)
Published: 2016
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50. 2FHL: The second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

Author: Marco Ajello, Aaron Dominguez, J. M. Cohen, and S. Cutini
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics, Sensitivity (control systems), Orbit (control theory), Blazar, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Published: 2016
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