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1. Elastomeric respirators are safer and more sustainable alternatives to disposable N95 masks during the coronavirus outbreak

Author

James Chiang, Andrew Hanna, David Lebowitz, and Latha Ganti

Subjects
Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9
Abstract

Abstract Background In this paper, the authors review the safety and practicality of elastomeric respirators for protecting themselves and others from the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. They also describe the safe donning and doffing procedures for this protective gear. Main text Due to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the CDC has recommended ways to conserve disposable N95 masks, including re-use and extended use, and reserving N95 masks for aerosol-generating procedures. However, these were never made to be re-used. Although the modes of transmission of COVID-19 are not fully understood, based on what we know about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), droplets and aerosolized droplets contribute to the spread of this virus. More evidence from Wuhan, China, has demonstrated that COVID-19 viral particles are aerosolized and found in higher concentrations in rooms where PPE is being removed. Thus, it is best for all healthcare providers to have full aerosol protection. Conclusion Given the shortage of PPE for aerosols, it is logical to utilize reusable elastomeric respirators with filter efficiency of 95% or higher. A single elastomeric respirator may replace hundreds to thousands of new disposable N95 masks.

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2020
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4. The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey

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Bela Abolfathi, David Alonso, Robert Armstrong, Éric Aubourg, Humna Awan, Yadu N. Babuji, Franz Erik Bauer, Rachel Bean, George Beckett, Rahul Biswas, Joanne R. Bogart, Dominique Boutigny, Kyle Chard, James Chiang, Chuck F. Claver, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Céline Combet, Andrew J. Connolly, Scott F. Daniel, Seth W. Digel, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Richard Dubois, Emmanuel Gangler, Eric Gawiser, Thomas Glanzman, Phillipe Gris, Salman Habib, Andrew P. Hearin, Katrin Heitmann, Fabio Hernandez, Renée Hložek, Joseph Hollowed, Mustapha Ishak, Željko Ivezić, Mike Jarvis, Saurabh W. Jha, Steven M. Kahn, J. Bryce Kalmbach, Heather M. Kelly, Eve Kovacs, Danila Korytov, K. Simon Krughoff, Craig S. Lage, François Lanusse, Patricia Larsen, Laurent Le Guillou, Nan Li, Emily Phillips Longley, Robert H. Lupton, Rachel Mandelbaum, Yao-Yuan Mao, Phil Marshall, Joshua E. Meyers, Marc Moniez, Christopher B. Morrison, Andrei Nomerotski, Paul O’Connor, HyeYun Park, Ji Won Park, Julien Peloton, Daniel Perrefort, James Perry, Stéphane Plaszczynski, Adrian Pope, Andrew Rasmussen, Kevin Reil, Aaron J. Roodman, Eli S. Rykoff, F. Javier Sánchez, Samuel J. Schmidt, Daniel Scolnic, Christopher W. Stubbs, J. Anthony Tyson, Thomas D. Uram, Antonio Villarreal, Christopher W. Walter, Matthew P. Wiesner, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, and Joe Zuntz

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2021
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5. Elastomeric respirators are safer and more sustainable alternatives to disposable N95 masks during the coronavirus outbreak

Author

Latha Ganti, James Chiang, Andrew Hanna, and David Lebowitz

Subjects
0303 health sciences, business.product_category, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 030306 microbiology, business.industry, Practice Innovations in Emergency Medicine, lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, Economic shortage, lcsh:RC86-88.9, medicine.disease, medicine.disease_cause, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, SAFER, Protective gear, Emergency Medicine, medicine, Middle East respiratory syndrome, 030212 general & internal medicine, Medical emergency, Respirator, business, Personal protective equipment, Coronavirus
Abstract

Background In this paper, the authors review the safety and practicality of elastomeric respirators for protecting themselves and others from the novel coronavirus or COVID-19. They also describe the safe donning and doffing procedures for this protective gear. Main text Due to the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the CDC has recommended ways to conserve disposable N95 masks, including re-use and extended use, and reserving N95 masks for aerosol-generating procedures. However, these were never made to be re-used. Although the modes of transmission of COVID-19 are not fully understood, based on what we know about severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), droplets and aerosolized droplets contribute to the spread of this virus. More evidence from Wuhan, China, has demonstrated that COVID-19 viral particles are aerosolized and found in higher concentrations in rooms where PPE is being removed. Thus, it is best for all healthcare providers to have full aerosol protection. Conclusion Given the shortage of PPE for aerosols, it is logical to utilize reusable elastomeric respirators with filter efficiency of 95% or higher. A single elastomeric respirator may replace hundreds to thousands of new disposable N95 masks.

Published
2020

8. Local Anesthesia

Author

Derek Ailes, Muhammad Waseem, James Chiang, and Ilya Aleksandrovskiy

Published
2022

11. The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey

Author

Kevin Reil, Adrian Pope, Kyle Chard, Mustapha Ishak, D. Boutigny, Humna Awan, H. Kelly, Laurent Le Guillou, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Eli S. Rykoff, Stéphane Plaszczynski, Rahul Biswas, Richard Dubois, Saurabh Jha, Danila Korytov, C. W. Walter, J. Anthony Tyson, Katrin Heitmann, T. Glanzman, Fabio Hernandez, François Lanusse, F. Javier Sánchez, Joe Zuntz, Željko Ivezić, Marc Moniez, Yadu Babuji, HyeYun Park, Christopher W. Stubbs, Franz E. Bauer, Phillipe Gris, Chuck Claver, Paul O'Connor, J. Meyers, Christopher B. Morrison, George Beckett, Joseph Hollowed, Seth Digel, Andrew Rasmussen, Céline Combet, Phil Marshall, Éric Aubourg, Rachel Mandelbaum, J. Perry, Mike Jarvis, Thomas D. Uram, K. Simon Krughoff, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Scott F. Daniel, Yao-Yuan Mao, Matthew P. Wiesner, James Chiang, Bela Abolfathi, Daniel Scolnic, Craig S. Lage, Ji Won Park, Steven M. Kahn, Eric Gawiser, Antonio Villarreal, A. Roodman, E. Gangler, Nan Li, Rachel Bean, David Alonso, Emily Phillips Longley, Andrei Nomerotski, Andrew P. Hearin, Salman Habib, Daniel Perrefort, Andrew J. Connolly, J. Peloton, J. Bryce Kalmbach, Eve Kovacs, Patricia Larsen, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Renée Hložek, Robert Armstrong, J.R. Bogart, Samuel Schmidt, Robert H. Lupton, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), 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), 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 de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), 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), Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3 (CC-IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-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 Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LSST Dark Energy Science, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), 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)-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), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Data products, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Image processing software, Sky surveys, 01 natural sciences, Field (computer science), Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, N-body simulations, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Deep drilling, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Remote sensing, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Testbed, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmology, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Simulated data, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC). Significant connections across multiple science domains will be a hallmark of LSST; the DC2 program represents a unique modeling effort that stresses this interconnectivity in a way that has not been attempted before. This effort encompasses a full end-to-end approach: starting from a large N-body simulation, through setting up LSST-like observations including realistic cadences, through image simulations, and finally processing with Rubin's LSST Science Pipelines. This last step ensures that we generate data products resembling those to be delivered by the Rubin Observatory as closely as is currently possible. The simulated DC2 sky survey covers six optical bands in a wide-fast-deep (WFD) area of approximately 300 deg^2 as well as a deep drilling field (DDF) of approximately 1 deg^2. We simulate 5 years of the planned 10-year survey. The DC2 sky survey has multiple purposes. First, the LSST DESC working groups can use the dataset to develop a range of DESC analysis pipelines to prepare for the advent of actual data. Second, it serves as a realistic testbed for the image processing software under development for LSST by the Rubin Observatory. In particular, simulated data provide a controlled way to investigate certain image-level systematic effects. Finally, the DC2 sky survey enables the exploration of new scientific ideas in both static and time-domain cosmology., 39 pages, 19 figures, version accepted for publication in ApJS

Published
2021

13. Laboratory Measurements of Instrumental Signatures of the LSST Camera Focal Plane

Author

Céline Combet, Aurélien Barrau, Craig S. Lage, Kevin Reil, Richard Dubois, Ludovic Eraud, Travis Lange, A. Roodman, Paul O'Connor, Andrew Bradshaw, Andrei Nomerotski, Boyd Bowdish, Claire Juramy, Duncan Wood, Seth Digel, Myriam Migliore, Adrian Shestakov, Andrew Rasmussen, James Chiang, Adam Snyder, Hye Yun Park, Yousuke Utsumi, 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 de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
[PHYS]Physics [physics], Sensors, Computer science, business.industry, ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION, FOS: Physical sciences, First light, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Cameras, Signature (logic), law.invention, Imaging Systems, Optics, Cardinal point, Projector, Observatory, law, Charge-coupled Devices, Image sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract

Electro-optical testing and characterization of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera focal plane, consisting of 205 charge-coupled devices (CCDs) arranged into 21 stand-alone Raft Tower Modules (RTMs) and 4 Corner Raft Tower Modules (CRTMs), is currently being performed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Testing of the camera sensors is performed using a set of custom-built optical projectors, designed to illuminate the full focal plane or specific regions of the focal plane with a series of light illumination patterns: the crosstalk projector, the flat illuminator projector, and the spot grid projector. In addition to measurements of crosstalk, linearity and full well, the ability to project realistically-sized sources, using the spot grid projector, makes possible unique measurements of instrumental signatures such as deferred charge distortions, astrometric shifts due to sensor effects, and the brighter-fatter effect, prior to camera first light. Here we present the optical projector designs and usage, the electro-optical measurements and how these results have been used in testing and improving the LSST Camera instrumental signature removal algorithms., 21 pages, 16 figures. SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation Digital Forum December 2020

Published
2021

14. Performance characterization and verification testing of the LSST Camera

Author

Owen H. Saxton, Travis Lange, H. A. Neal, Eric Charles, Richard Dubois, Martin Nordby, M.E. Huffer, Tim W. Bond, Duncan Wood, Ludovic Eraud, Andrew P. Rasmussen, A. Roodman, Gregg Thayer, J. Anthony Tyson, Vincent J. Riot, Aurélien Barrau, Chris Mendez, Craig S. Lage, Andrew Bradshaw, Steve Ritz, Boyd Bowdish, Adrian Shestakov, Stephen A. Tether, Sven Herrmann, Paul O'Connor, Steven M. Kahn, John Ku, Scott P. Newbry, S. L. Marshall, Adam Snyder, Andrei Nomerotski, Marco Oriunno, Stephen A. Cisneros, Alan Eisner, Seth Digel, Massimiliano Turri, Dmitry Onoprienko, P. Antilogus, Yousuke Utsumi, Claire Juramy-Gilles, Céline Combet, A. S. Johnson, Shawn Osier, Myriam Migliore, Dan Polin, Bill Wahl, Jeff Tice, Justin E. Wolfe, James Chiang, Kevin Reil, Stefano Russo, and Margaux Lopez

Subjects
Cardinal point, Computer science, Filter (video), Observatory, Suite, Shutter, Computer graphics (images), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Software verification, Characterization (materials science)
Abstract

The Integration and Verification Testing and characterization of the expected performance of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera is described. The LSST Camera will be the largest astronomical camera ever constructed, featuring a 3.2 Gpixel focal plane mosaic of 189 CCDs. In this paper, we describe the verification testing program developed in parallel with the integration of the Camera, and the results from our performance characterization of the Camera. Our testing program includes electro-optical characterization and CCD height measurements of the focal plane, at several steps during integration, as well as a complete functional and characterization program for the finished focal plane. It also includes a suite of functional tests of the major Camera mechanisms: shutter, filter exchange system and thermal control. Finally, we expect to test the fully assembled Camera prior to its scheduled completion and delivery to the LSST observatory in early calendar 2021.

Published
2020

15. The LSST DESC Data Challenge 1: Generation and Analysis of Synthetic Images for Next Generation Surveys

Author

B Xin, Humna Awan, Phil Marshall, B. van Klaveren, C. W. Walter, Javier Sanchez, S. Krughoff, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Anze Slosar, Robert H. Lupton, John R. Peterson, T Johnson, Rachel Mandelbaum, H Kelly, Colin J. Burke, T. Glanzman, Eric Gawiser, Paul A. Price, Seth Digel, D. Kirkby, G. H. Sembroski, Matthew P. Wiesner, Matt J. Jarvis, Y. AlSayyad, Scott F. Daniel, and James Chiang

Subjects
Physics, Matching (statistics), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Synthetic data, Galaxy, 010309 optics, Data set, Set (abstract data type), 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster analysis, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Algorithm, Data reduction
Abstract

Data Challenge 1 (DC1) is the first synthetic dataset produced by the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). DC1 is designed to develop and validate data reduction and analysis and to study the impact of systematic effects that will affect the LSST dataset. DC1 is comprised of $r$-band observations of 40 deg$^{2}$ to 10-year LSST depth. We present each stage of the simulation and analysis process: a) generation, by synthesizing sources from cosmological N-body simulations in individual sensor-visit images with different observing conditions; b) reduction using a development version of the LSST Science Pipelines; and c) matching to the input cosmological catalog for validation and testing. We verify that testable LSST requirements pass within the fidelity of DC1. We establish a selection procedure that produces a sufficiently clean extragalactic sample for clustering analyses and we discuss residual sample contamination, including contributions from inefficiency in star-galaxy separation and imperfect deblending. We compute the galaxy power spectrum on the simulated field and conclude that: i) survey properties have an impact of 50\% of the statistical uncertainty for the scales and models used in DC1 ii) a selection to eliminate artifacts in the catalogs is necessary to avoid biases in the measured clustering; iii) the presence of bright objects has a significant impact (2- to 6-$\sigma$) in the estimated power spectra at small scales ($\ell > 1200$), highlighting the impact of blending in studies at small angular scales in LSST, Comment: 21 pages, 21 figures. Accepted at MNRAS

Published
2020

16. MAORY AO performances

Author

Hye Yun Park, A. Roodman, Paul O'Connor, Adrian Shestakov, Richard Dubois, Yousuke Utsumi, Aurélien Barrau, Craig S. Lage, Andrei Nomerotski, Travis Lange, Ludovic Eraud, Boyd Bowdish, Seth Digel, Claire Juramy, James Chiang, Duncan Wood, Andrew Rasmussen, Céline Combet, Adam Snyder, Andrew Bradshaw, Kevin Reil, Myriam Migliore, ITA, and DEU

Subjects
010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, Computer science, ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION, FOS: Physical sciences, First light, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Signature (logic), law.invention, Optics, Cardinal point, Projector, law, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Image sensor, business, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Abstract

The Multi-conjugate Adaptive Optics RelaY (MAORY) should provide 30% SR in K band (50% goal) on half of the sky at the South Galactic Pole. Assessing its performance and the sensitivity to parameter variations during the design phase is a fundamental step for the engineering of such a complex system. This step, centered on numerical simulations, is the connection between the performance requirements and the Adaptive Optics system configuration. In this work we present MAORY configuration and performance and we justify theAdaptive Optics system design choices., Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, 1 table. SPIE conference Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 14 - 18 December 2020, digital forum

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2020
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17. LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

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Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson, Bob Abel, Emily Acosta, Robyn Allsman, David Alonso, Yusra AlSayyad, Scott F. Anderson, John Andrew, James Roger P. Angel, George Z. Angeli, Reza Ansari, Pierre Antilogus, Constanza Araujo, Robert Armstrong, Kirk T. Arndt, Pierre Astier, Éric Aubourg, Nicole Auza, Tim S. Axelrod, Deborah J. Bard, Jeff D. Barr, Aurelian Barrau, James G. Bartlett, Amanda E. Bauer, Brian J. Bauman, Sylvain Baumont, Ellen Bechtol, Keith Bechtol, Andrew C. Becker, Jacek Becla, Cristina Beldica, Steve Bellavia, Federica B. Bianco, Rahul Biswas, Guillaume Blanc, Jonathan Blazek, Roger D. Blandford, Josh S. Bloom, Joanne Bogart, Tim W. Bond, Michael T. Booth, Anders W. Borgland, Kirk Borne, James F. Bosch, Dominique Boutigny, Craig A. Brackett, Andrew Bradshaw, William Nielsen Brandt, Michael E. Brown, James S. Bullock, Patricia Burchat, David L. Burke, Gianpietro Cagnoli, Daniel Calabrese, Shawn Callahan, Alice L. Callen, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Erin L. Carlson, Srinivasan Chandrasekharan, Glenaver Charles-Emerson, Steve Chesley, Elliott C. Cheu, Hsin-Fang Chiang, James Chiang, Carol Chirino, Derek Chow, David R. Ciardi, Charles F. Claver, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Joseph J. Cockrum, Rebecca Coles, Andrew J. Connolly, Kem H. Cook, Asantha Cooray, Kevin R. Covey, Chris Cribbs, Wei Cui, Roc Cutri, Philip N. Daly, Scott F. Daniel, Felipe Daruich, Guillaume Daubard, Greg Daues, William Dawson, Francisco Delgado, Alfred Dellapenna, Robert de Peyster, Miguel de Val-Borro, Seth W. Digel, Peter Doherty, Richard Dubois, Gregory P. Dubois-Felsmann, Josef Durech, Frossie Economou, Tim Eifler, Michael Eracleous, Benjamin L. Emmons, Angelo Fausti Neto, Henry Ferguson, Enrique Figueroa, Merlin Fisher-Levine, Warren Focke, Michael D. Foss, James Frank, Michael D. Freemon, Emmanuel Gangler, Eric Gawiser, John C. Geary, Perry Gee, Marla Geha, Charles J. B. Gessner, Robert R. Gibson, D. Kirk Gilmore, Thomas Glanzman, William Glick, Tatiana Goldina, Daniel A. Goldstein, Iain Goodenow, Melissa L. Graham, William J. Gressler, Philippe Gris, Leanne P. Guy, Augustin Guyonnet, Gunther Haller, Ron Harris, Patrick A. Hascall, Justine Haupt, Fabio Hernandez, Sven Herrmann, Edward Hileman, Joshua Hoblitt, John A. Hodgson, Craig Hogan, James D. Howard, Dajun Huang, Michael E. Huffer, Patrick Ingraham, Walter R. Innes, Suzanne H. Jacoby, Bhuvnesh Jain, Fabrice Jammes, James Jee, Tim Jenness, Garrett Jernigan, Darko Jevremović, Kenneth Johns, Anthony S. Johnson, Margaret W. G. Johnson, R. Lynne Jones, Claire Juramy-Gilles, Mario Jurić, Jason S. Kalirai, Nitya J. Kallivayalil, Bryce Kalmbach, Jeffrey P. Kantor, Pierre Karst, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Heather Kelly, Richard Kessler, Veronica Kinnison, David Kirkby, Lloyd Knox, Ivan V. Kotov, Victor L. Krabbendam, K. Simon Krughoff, Petr Kubánek, John Kuczewski, Shri Kulkarni, John Ku, Nadine R. Kurita, Craig S. Lage, Ron Lambert, Travis Lange, J. Brian Langton, Laurent Le Guillou, Deborah Levine, Ming Liang, Kian-Tat Lim, Chris J. Lintott, Kevin E. Long, Margaux Lopez, Paul J. Lotz, Robert H. Lupton, Nate B. Lust, Lauren A. MacArthur, Ashish Mahabal, Rachel Mandelbaum, Thomas W. Markiewicz, Darren S. Marsh, Philip J. Marshall, Stuart Marshall, Morgan May, Robert McKercher, Michelle McQueen, Joshua Meyers, Myriam Migliore, Michelle Miller, David J. Mills, Connor Miraval, Joachim Moeyens, Fred E. Moolekamp, David G. Monet, Marc Moniez, Serge Monkewitz, Christopher Montgomery, Christopher B. Morrison, Fritz Mueller, Gary P. Muller, Freddy Muñoz Arancibia, Douglas R. Neill, Scott P. Newbry, Jean-Yves Nief, Andrei Nomerotski, Martin Nordby, Paul O’Connor, John Oliver, Scot S. Olivier, Knut Olsen, William O’Mullane, Sandra Ortiz, Shawn Osier, Russell E. Owen, Reynald Pain, Paul E. Palecek, John K. Parejko, James B. Parsons, Nathan M. Pease, J. Matt Peterson, John R. Peterson, Donald L. Petravick, M. E. Libby Petrick, Cathy E. Petry, Francesco Pierfederici, Stephen Pietrowicz, Rob Pike, Philip A. Pinto, Raymond Plante, Stephen Plate, Joel P. Plutchak, Paul A. Price, Michael Prouza, Veljko Radeka, Jayadev Rajagopal, Andrew P. Rasmussen, Nicolas Regnault, Kevin A. Reil, David J. Reiss, Michael A. Reuter, Stephen T. Ridgway, Vincent J. Riot, Steve Ritz, Sean Robinson, William Roby, Aaron Roodman, Wayne Rosing, Cecille Roucelle, Matthew R. Rumore, Stefano Russo, Abhijit Saha, Benoit Sassolas, Terry L. Schalk, Pim Schellart, Rafe H. Schindler, Samuel Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Michael D. Schneider, William Schoening, German Schumacher, Megan E. Schwamb, Jacques Sebag, Brian Selvy, Glenn H. Sembroski, Lynn G. Seppala, Andrew Serio, Eduardo Serrano, Richard A. Shaw, Ian Shipsey, Jonathan Sick, Nicole Silvestri, Colin T. Slater, J. Allyn Smith, R. Chris Smith, Shahram Sobhani, Christine Soldahl, Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, Edward Stover, Michael A. Strauss, Rachel A. Street, Christopher W. Stubbs, Ian S. Sullivan, Donald Sweeney, John D. Swinbank, Alexander Szalay, Peter Takacs, Stephen A. Tether, Jon J. Thaler, John Gregg Thayer, Sandrine Thomas, Adam J. Thornton, Vaikunth Thukral, Jeffrey Tice, David E. Trilling, Max Turri, Richard Van Berg, Daniel Vanden Berk, Kurt Vetter, Francoise Virieux, Tomislav Vucina, William Wahl, Lucianne Walkowicz, Brian Walsh, Christopher W. Walter, Daniel L. Wang, Shin-Yawn Wang, Michael Warner, Oliver Wiecha, Beth Willman, Scott E. Winters, David Wittman, Sidney C. Wolff, W. Michael Wood-Vasey, Xiuqin Wu, Bo Xin, Peter Yoachim, Hu Zhan, 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), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), 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), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), 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), Laboratoire des matériaux avancés (LMA), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-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), 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 de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Calcul de l'IN2P3 (CC-IN2P3), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de RadioAstronomía Milimétrica (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LSST, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-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 de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)-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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-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), 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), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), and 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)

Subjects
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Astronomy, observational [methods], Field of view, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, law, size distribution, sagittarius dwarf galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, stars: general, media_common, Physics, Reference design, general [stars], gamma-ray bursts, Astrophysics (astro-ph), observations [cosmology], proper motion stars, ia supernovae, astrometry, methods: observational, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Milky Way, media_common.quotation_subject, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, Astronomy & Astrophysics, milky-way tomography, Primary mirror, Telescope, surveys, astro-ph, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy: general, general [Galaxy], 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, dark-energy constraints, Organic Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, tidal disruption events, cosmology: observations, digital sky survey, lensing power spectrum, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a single wide-deep-fast sky survey, and LSST will have unique survey capability in the faint time domain. The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the Solar System, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way. LSST will be a wide-field ground-based system sited at Cerro Pach\'{o}n in northern Chile. The telescope will have an 8.4 m (6.5 m effective) primary mirror, a 9.6 deg$^2$ field of view, and a 3.2 Gigapixel camera. The standard observing sequence will consist of pairs of 15-second exposures in a given field, with two such visits in each pointing in a given night. With these repeats, the LSST system is capable of imaging about 10,000 square degrees of sky in a single filter in three nights. The typical 5$\sigma$ point-source depth in a single visit in $r$ will be $\sim 24.5$ (AB). The project is in the construction phase and will begin regular survey operations by 2022. The survey area will be contained within 30,000 deg$^2$ with $\delta, Comment: 57 pages, 32 color figures, version with high-resolution figures available from https://www.lsst.org/overview

Published
2019

18. Development and Challenges of Warpage for Fan-Out Wafer-Level Package Technology

Author

Mu-Hsuan Chan, Ivan Chang, David Wang, Yu-Po Wang, James Chiang, Nicholas Kao, and George Pan

Subjects
Form factor (design), Engineering, Engineering drawing, Development (topology), Cost effectiveness, business.industry, Automotive Engineering, Fan-out, Wafer, business, Manufacturing engineering
Abstract

Fan-out wafer-level-packaging (FO-WLP) technology has been widely investigated recently with its advantages of thin form factor structure, cost effectiveness and high performance for wide range applications. Reducing wafer warpage is one of the most challenging needs to be addressed for success on subsequent processes. Therefore, the majority of studies focus on the ratio of die and compound thickness, structure design. In order to optimize the warpage for success on subsequent processes, it is indispensable to consider whole wafer process including thermal loading and stress. In this study, reducdution of wafer warpage at each process was proposed in terms of material selection, and process optimization through finite element analysis (FEA) and experiment. Wafer process dependent modeling results were validated by experimental measurement data. The mutual relationship and effects of material property, compound thickness, and corresponding thermal influences were both investigated and addressed. Key parameters were identified based on FEA modeling results: thickness ratio of die/compound andmolding compound materials. Therefore, the geometry design with balanced die/compound ratio is optimal for warpage improvement. The effect of process will be discussed and should be considered for future package warpage characterization. Such findings have been successfully used in process optimization to reduce wafer warapge after grinding process.

Published
2016

19. Learning Visualization Strategies: A qualitative investigation

Author

Daniel Halpern, Marilyn Tremaine, James Chiang, Kyong Eun Oh, Karen G. Bemis, and Deborah Silver

Subjects
Management science, Spatial ability, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, Science education, 050105 experimental psychology, Education, Visualization, Comprehension, Human–computer interaction, Analytical skill, Mental representation, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Psychology, Set (psychology), 0503 education, Visual learning
Abstract

The following study investigates the range of strategies individuals develop to infer and interpret cross-sections of three-dimensional objects. We focus on the identification of mental representations and problem-solving processes made by 11 individuals with the goal of building training applications that integrate the strategies developed by the participants in our study. Our results suggest that although spatial transformation and perspective-taking techniques are useful for visualizing cross-section problems, these visual processes are augmented by analytical thinking. Further, our study shows that participants employ general analytic strategies for extended periods which evolve through practice into a set of progressively more expert strategies. Theoretical implications are discussed and five main findings are recommended for integration into the design of education software that facilitates visual learning and comprehension.

Published
2015

20. Integration and verification testing of the LSST camera

Author

K. Gilmore, Andrew Rasmussen, M. Turri, Myriam Migliore, S. L. Marshall, J. S. Ricol, Seth Digel, Margaux Lopez, A. W. Borgland, T. Glanzman, Sven Herrmann, J.R. Bogart, Adam Snyder, James Chiang, Martin Nordby, H. Kelly, B. Baumann, Céline Combet, E. Rosenberg, Scott P. Newbry, G. Dargaud, D. Hascall, Kevin Reil, J. Wolfe, P. Antilogus, Yousuke Utsumi, Andrei Nomerotski, W. B. Focke, Stefano Russo, Matthew R. Rumore, Travis Lange, A. Roodman, Ludovic Eraud, E. Perbet, O. Saxton, Stephen A. Tether, Péter Takács, Tim W. Bond, Claire Juramy, P. Hascall, A. S. Johnson, Richard Dubois, Justine Haupt, C. Vescovi, Paul O'Connor, Scott Winters, M. Marton, A. Barrau, Peter Doherty, H. Neal, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)

Subjects
Wavefront, Cryostat, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Computer science, business.industry, ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, 01 natural sciences, Cardinal point, Data acquisition, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Optical filter, business, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Software verification, Computer hardware
Abstract

International audience; The Integration and Verification Testing of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera is described. The LSST Camera will be the largest astronomical camera ever constructed, featuring a 3.2 giga-pixel focal plane mosaic of 189 CCDs with in-vacuum controllers and readout, dedicated guider and wavefront CCDs, a three element corrector with a 1.6-meter diameter initial optic, six optical filters covering wavelengths from 320 to 1000 nm with a novel filter exchange mechanism, and camera-control and data acquisition capable of digitizing each image in two seconds. In this paper, we describe the integration processes under way to assemble the Camera and the associated verification testing program. The Camera assembly proceeds along two parallel paths: one for the focal plane and cryostat and the other for the Camera structure itself. A range of verification tests will be performed interspersed with assembly to verify design requirements with a test-as-you-build methodology. Ultimately, the cryostat will be installed into the Camera structure as the two assembly paths merge, and a suite of final Camera system tests performed. The LSST Camera is scheduled for completion and delivery to the LSST observatory in 2020.

Published
2018

21. 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

22. Blocked: When the information is hidden by the visualization

Author

James Chiang, Marilyn Tremaine, Karen G. Bemis, Kyong Eun Oh, Daniel Halpern, and Deborah Silver

Subjects
Information Systems and Management, Relation (database), Computer Networks and Communications, Computer science, 05 social sciences, Diagram, 050301 education, Contrast (music), Library and Information Sciences, 050105 experimental psychology, Grounded theory, Visualization, Computer graphics (images), Face (geometry), 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, 0503 education, Information Systems
Abstract

This study investigated how people comprehend three-dimensional 3D visualizations and what properties of such visualizations affect comprehension. Participants were asked to draw the face of a 3D visualization after it was cut in half. We videotaped the participants as they drew, erased, verbalized their thoughts, gestured, and moved about a two-dimensional paper presentation of the 3D visualization. The videorecords were analyzed using a grounded theory approach to generate hypotheses related to comprehension difficulties and visualization properties. Our analysis of the results uncovered three properties that made problem solving more difficult for participants. These were: a cuts that were at an angle in relation to at least one plane of reference, b nonplanar properties of the features contained in the 3D visualizations including curved layers and v-shaped layers, and c mixed combinations of layers. In contrast, a cutting planes that were perpendicular or parallel to the 3D visualization diagram's planes of reference, b internal features that were flat/planar, and c homogeneous layers were easier to comprehend. This research has direct implications for the generation and use of 3D information visualizations in that it suggests design features to include and avoid.

Published
2015

23. 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. B., 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., Burnett, T. H., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiappo, A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Conrad, J., Costanza, F., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., 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., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Gomez-Vargas, G. A., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Johnson, A. 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. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Zimmer, S., 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), 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), 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), 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 ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), D’Ammando, F., Palma, F. de, Lalla, N. 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

24. 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

25. 329 Out-of-Hospital Double Sequential Defibrillation of Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation Associated With Improved Outcomes

Author

Paul Banerjee, Ariel Vera, Javier Rosario, James Chiang, and Latha Ganti

Subjects
Out of hospital, medicine.medical_specialty, Defibrillation, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, medicine.disease, Out of hospital cardiac arrest, Refractory, Internal medicine, Ventricular fibrillation, Emergency Medicine, Cardiology, medicine, business
Published
2019

26. Integration and verification testing of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera

Author

Kevin Reil, Margaux Lopez, Richard Dubois, Travis Lange, Seth Digel, Martin Nordby, T. Glanzman, Tim Bond, James Chiang, Kirk Gilmore, A. Roodman, Scott P. Newbry, Tony Johnson, and Andrew P. Rasmussen

Subjects
010309 optics, Computer science, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, Systems engineering, Field of view, 02 engineering and technology, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 0210 nano-technology, 01 natural sciences, Software verification, Remote sensing
Abstract

We present an overview of the Integration and Verification Testing activities of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Camera at the SLAC National Accelerator Lab (SLAC). The LSST Camera, the sole instrument for LSST and under construction now, is comprised of a 3.2 Giga-pixel imager and a three element corrector with a 3.5 degree diameter field of view. LSST Camera Integration and Test will be taking place over the next four years, with final delivery to the LSST observatory anticipated in early 2020. We outline the planning for Integration and Test, describe some of the key verification hardware systems being developed, and identify some of the more complicated assembly/integration activities. Specific details of integration and verification hardware systems will be discussed, highlighting some of the technical challenges anticipated.

Published
2016

27. Searching for high-energy gamma-ray counterparts to Gravitational Wave sources with Fermi-LAT: a needle in a haystack

Author

Seth Digel, Nicola Omodei, James Chiang, and Giacomo Vianello

Subjects
Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Gravitational wave, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Field of view, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, LIGO, Afterglow, law.invention, Radio telescope, Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

At least a fraction of Gravitational Wave (GW) progenitors are expected to emit an electromagnetic (EM) signal in the form of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB). Discovering such a transient EM counterpart is challenging because the \LIGO/\VIRGO localization region is much larger (several hundreds of square degrees) than the field of view of X-ray, optical and radio telescopes. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has a wide field of view ($\sim 2.4$ sr), and detects $\sim 2-3$ sGRBs per year above 100 MeV. It can detect them not only during the short prompt phase, but also during their long-lasting high-energy afterglow phase. If other wide-field high-energy instruments such as Fermi-GBM, Swift-BAT or INTEGRAL-ISGRI cannot detect or localize with enough precision an EM counterpart during the prompt phase, the LAT can potentially pinpoint it with $\lesssim 10$ arcmin accuracy during the afterglow phase. This routinely happens with gamma-ray bursts. Moreover, the LAT will cover the entire localization region within hours of any triggers during normal operations, allowing the $\gamma$-ray flux of any EM counterpart to be measured or constrained. We illustrate two new ad hoc methods to search for EM counterparts with the LAT and their application to the GW candidate LVT151012., Comment: Published in Apj Letters

Published
2016

28. Minute-timescale >100 MeV γ-Ray Variability during the Giant Outburst of Quasar 3C 279 Observed by Fermi-LAT in 2015 June

Author

M. Caragiulo, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, M. Sikora, Seth Digel, F. Spada, Dario Gasparrini, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, D. J. Thompson, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Richard Anantua, S. Cutini, J. D. Magill, P. Spinelli, J. Becerra González, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Chiaro, G. Pivato, Francesco Longo, P. Fusco, Yasushi Fukazawa, T. A. Porter, Ronaldo Bellazzini, E. Orlando, Daniel Kocevski, Igor V. Moskalenko, Nicola Giglietto, Lucas Guillemot, D. Horan, M. Hayashida, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Guido Barbiellini, M. Di Mauro, Lukasz Stawarz, C. Favuzzi, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Soebur Razzaque, Francesco Giordano, Persis S. Drell, Shanta M. Zimmer, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, I. A. Grenier, Diego F. Torres, R. A. Cameron, D. Simone, E. Nuss, David Paneque, S. Funk, G. La Mura, Krzysztof Nalewajko, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kuss, P. Bruel, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Denis Bastieri, E. Hays, F. Loparco, Yajie Yuan, J. S. Perkins, R. Buehler, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, J. Li, Marcello Giroletti, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, Stefan Larsson, F. de Palma, M. E. Monzani, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, R. Desiante, Eugenio Bottacini, A. Reimer, Alberto Manfreda, J. B. Thayer, Claudia Cecchi, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, N. Di Lalla, Mn Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, S. J. Fegan, Jeffrey D. Scargle, T. Ohsugi, B. Lott, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, Katsuaki Asano, P. Lubrano, Stefano Ciprini, E. Troja, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, Luca Latronico, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, E. J. Siskind, Markus Ackermann, F. Gargano, C. C. Cheung, E. Cavazzuti, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, G. A. Caliandro, Giacomo Principe, ITA, Ackermann, M, Anantua, R., Asano, K., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Cheung, C. C., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., 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., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hayashida, M., Hays, E., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kensei, S., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Madejski, G. M., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Nalewajko, K., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orlando, E., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Scargle, J. D., Sgr, C., Sikora, M., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spinelli, P., Stawarz, L., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Yuan, Y., Zimmer, S., Ackermann M, Anantua R, Asano K, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Gonzalez JB, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Bruel P, Buehler R, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Cheung CC, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, De Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Grenier IA, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Hayashida M, Hays E, Horan D, Johannesson G, Kensei S, Kocevski D, Kuss M, La Mura G, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Magill JD, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mirabal N, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Nalewajko K, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Orlando E, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Principe G, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Scargle JD, Sgro C, Sikora M, Simone D, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spinelli P, Stawarz L, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Torres DF, Troja E, Uchiyama Y, Yuan Y, and Zimmer S

Subjects
Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, jets [galaxies], Astrophysics, galaxies: active – galaxies: jets – gamma rays: galaxies – quasars: individual (3C 279) – radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Luminosity, quasars: individual (3C 279), symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, gamma rays: galaxies, individual: 3C 279 [quasars], Absorption (logic), 010306 general physics, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, galaxies: jets, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Orbital period, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Lorentz factor, 13. Climate action, active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], symbols, ddc:520, Production (computer science), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

On 2015 June 16, Fermi-LAT observed a giant outburst from the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 with a peak $>100$ MeV flux of $\sim3.6\times10^{-5}\;{\rm photons}\;{\rm cm}^{-2}\;{\rm s}^{-1}$ averaged over orbital period intervals. It is the historically highest $\gamma$-ray flux observed from the source including past EGRET observations, with the $\gamma$-ray isotropic luminosity reaching $\sim10^{49}\;{\rm erg}\;{\rm s}^{-1}$. During the outburst, the Fermi spacecraft, which has an orbital period of 95.4 min, was operated in a special pointing mode to optimize the exposure for 3C 279. For the first time, significant flux variability at sub-orbital timescales was found in blazar observations by Fermi-LAT. The source flux variability was resolved down to 2-min binned timescales, with flux doubling times less than 5 min. The observed minute-scale variability suggests a very compact emission region at hundreds of Schwarzschild radii from the central engine in conical jet models. A minimum bulk jet Lorentz factor ($\Gamma$) of 35 is necessary to avoid both internal $\gamma$-ray absorption and super-Eddington jet power. In the standard external-radiation-Comptonization scenario, $\Gamma$ should be at least 50 to avoid overproducing the synchrotron-self-Compton component. However, this predicts extremely low magnetization ($\sim5\times10^{-4}$). Equipartition requires $\Gamma$ as high as 120, unless the emitting region is a small fraction of the dissipation region. Alternatively, we consider $\gamma$ rays originating as synchrotron radiation of $\gamma_{\rm e}\sim1.6\times10^6$ electrons, in magnetic field $B\sim1.3$ kG, accelerated by strong electric fields $E\sim B$ in the process of magnetoluminescence. At such short distance scales, one cannot immediately exclude production of $\gamma$ rays in hadronic processes., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letter. --Corresponding authors: Masaaki Hayashida (mahaya_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Greg Madejski (madejski_at_slac.stanford.edu), and Krzysztof Nalewajko (knalew_at_camk.edu.pl)

Published
2016

29. FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS of HIGH-ENERGY γ-RAY EMISSION TOWARD the GALACTIC CENTER

Author

J. D. Magill, W. B. Atwood, M. Ohno, Nicola Giglietto, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Andrea Albert, R. Desiante, Paolo Giommi, R. A. Cameron, F. Spada, R. Caputo, Hiroyasu Tajima, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, Jan Conrad, Nicola Omodei, J. F. Ormes, Stefan Larsson, P. Bruel, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, T. J. Brandt, Johan Bregeon, G. Jóhannesson, A. Morselli, Stephan Zimmer, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Liang Li, Keith Bechtol, G. Godfrey, F. de Palma, F. Piron, Denis Bastieri, M. Gustafsson, M. E. Monzani, C. Karwin, Guido Barbiellini, D.J. Suson, A. A. Moiseev, Alice K. Harding, Jingcheng Li, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, F. Loparco, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, P. M. Saz Parkinson, R. Buehler, M. Razzano, G. Chiaro, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Filippo D'Ammando, A. Reimer, G. Pivato, E. J. Siskind, M. N. Lovellette, D. Malyshev, H. Takahashi, D.F. Torres, D. Horan, R. Bonino, P. Fusco, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, P. A. Caraveo, T. Glanzman, S. Maldera, A. S. Johnson, S. Cutini, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Y. Uchiyama, T. Kamae, Claudia Cecchi, Francesco Longo, Persis S. Drell, Steven Ritz, T. A. Porter, E. Orlando, L. R. Cominsky, Igor V. Moskalenko, Luca Latronico, Olaf Reimer, A. Chekhtman, Sylvain Guiriec, John W. Hewitt, M. Caragiulo, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, D.A. Smith, Warit Mitthumsiri, Mn Mazziotta, P. Lubrano, C. Favuzzi, G. Zaharijas, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, T. Jogler, Dario Gasparrini, K. S. Wood, B.L. Winer, S. Buson, Stefano Ciprini, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, F. Gargano, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, Jürgen Knödlseder, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Gloria Spandre, A. B. Hill, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, 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), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), Université de Toulouse (UT), 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), Fermi-LAT, 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), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), 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), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, 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), 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), 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), 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), ITA, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Carave PA, Cecchi C, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Ferrara EC, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Gomez-Vargas GA, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Gustafsson M, Harding AK, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Johnson AS, Kamae T, Karwin C, Knodlseder J, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Magill J, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Ritz S, Sanchez-Conde M, Parkinson PMS, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Uchiyama Y, Vianello G, Winer BL, Wood KS, Zaharijas G, Zimmer S, Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cecchi, C., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Di Venere, L., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Ferrara, E. C., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Gomez Vargas, G. A., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Harding, A. K., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Kamae, T., Karwin, C., Knödlseder, J., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Ritz, S., Sánchez Conde, M., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Vianello, G., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., Zaharijas, G., and Zimmer, S.

Subjects
cosmic rays, Galaxy: center, gamma-rays: general, gamma-rays: ISM, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, cosmic rays, Galaxy: center, gamma-rays: general, gamma-rays: ISM, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Emission spectrum, ISM [gamma-rays], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, cosmic ray, Physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Galactic Center, Gamma ray, center [Galaxy], non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], particle: interaction, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, gamma ray: emission, cosmic radiation, electron: interaction, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma-rays], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GLAST, emission: model, Telescope, gas, 0103 physical sciences, structure, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, scattering, nucleus, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Interstellar medium, flux, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], ddc:520, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The astrophysical journal 819(1), 44 (2016). doi:10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/44, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission toward the Galactic center (GC) in high-energy γ-rays. This paper describes the analysis of data taken during the first 62 months of the mission in the energy range 1–100 GeV from a 15° × 15° region about the direction of the GC. Specialized interstellar emission models (IEMs) are constructed to enable the separation of the γ-ray emissions produced by cosmic ray particles interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation fields in the Milky Way into that from the inner ~1 kpc surrounding the GC, and that from the rest of the Galaxy. A catalog of point sources for the 15° × 15° region is self-consistently constructed using these IEMs: the First Fermi-LAT Inner Galaxy Point Source Catalog (1FIG). The spatial locations, fluxes, and spectral properties of the 1FIG sources are presented, and compared with γ-ray point sources over the same region taken from existing catalogs. After subtracting the interstellar emission and point-source contributions a residual is found. If templates that peak toward the GC are used to model the positive residual the agreement with the data improves, but none of the additional templates tried account for all of its spatial structure. The spectrum of the positive residual modeled with these templates has a strong dependence on the choice of IEM., Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

Published
2016

30. First NuSTAR observations of the BL Lac-type blazar PKS~2155-304: constraints on the jet content and distribution of radiating particles

Author

Vikram Rana, Krzysztof Nalewajko, Hiromasa Miyasaka, A. Furniss, Niels Jørgen Stenfeldt Westergaard, M. Hayashida, Didier Barret, Allan Hornstrup, Walter Craig, William W. Zhang, Takao Kitaguchi, Grzegorz Madejski, D. A. Sanchez, Daniel Stern, Fiona A. Harrison, C. Hailey, Paolo Giommi, Finn Erland Christensen, Simonetta Puccetti, David M. Alexander, Brian W. Grefenstette, Jason E. Koglin, Peter H. Mao, Kaya Mori, Karl Forster, C. M. Urry, M. J. Pivovaroff, Marek Sikora, James Chiang, B. Giebels, Roger Blandford, Andreas Zoglauer, M. Perri, S. E. Boggs, Marco Ajello, D. Paneque, Kristin K. Madsen, Mislav Baloković, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), 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), 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), 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), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), 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), Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules ( LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules ), 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 ), 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 ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), and Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

Subjects
galaxies [Gamma rays], active [Galaxies], Proton, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Electron, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Photon energy, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, gamma rays: galaxies, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: individual, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, PKS 2155-304, non-thermal [Radiation mechanisms], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, individual (PKS 2155-304) [BL Lacertae objects], Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, galaxies: jets, Lorentz factor, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, jets [Galaxies], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

We report the first hard X-ray observations with NuSTAR of the BL Lac type blazar PKS 2155-304, augmented with soft X-ray data from XMM-Newton and gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, obtained in April 2013 when the source was in a very low flux state. A joint NuSTAR and XMM spectrum, covering the energy range 0.5 - 60 keV, is best described by a model consisting of a log-parabola component with curvature beta = 0.3(+0.2,-0.1) and a (local) photon index 3.04 +/- 0.15 at photon energy of 2 keV, and a hard power-law tail with photon index 2.2 +/- 0.4. The hard X-ray tail can be smoothly joined to the quasi-simultaneous gamma-ray spectrum by a synchrotron self-Compton component produced by an electron distribution with index p = 2.2. Assuming that the power-law electron distribution extends down to the minimum electron Lorentz factor gamma_min = 1 and that there is one proton per electron, an unrealistically high total jet power L_p of roughly 10^47 erg/s is inferred. This can be reduced by two orders of magnitude either by considering a significant presence of electron-positron pairs with lepton-to-proton ratio of at least 30, or by introducing an additional, low-energy break in the electron energy distribution at the electron Lorentz factor gamma_br1 of roughly 100. In either case, the jet composition is expected to be strongly matter-dominated., Astrophysical Journal, in press

Published
2016

31. Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with six years of Fermi-LAT observations

Author

T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Olaf Reimer, W. B. Atwood, T. J. Brandt, Jean Ballet, F. Piron, Andrea Albert, C. Favuzzi, Nicola Giglietto, Stefano Ciprini, P. Martin, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, J. F. Ormes, M. Razzano, Stephan Zimmer, T. A. Porter, James Chiang, Filippo D'Ammando, Dario Gasparrini, Alice K. Harding, E. J. Siskind, P. A. Caraveo, Denis Bastieri, Jingcheng Li, Persis S. Drell, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, S. Rainò, Roger W. Romani, R. A. Cameron, A. Chekhtman, Tsunefumi Mizuno, D. Horan, P. Lubrano, André Schulz, M. E. Monzani, David A. Smith, G. Chiaro, F. Loparco, M. N. Mazziotta, R. Desiante, A. Reimer, Markus Ackermann, Seth Digel, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Elisabetta Bissaldi, S. Maldera, G. Pivato, A. Morselli, Eric Charles, E. Orlando, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, D. J. Suson, I. A. Grenier, F. Gargano, S. Cutini, E. Cavazzuti, Luca Latronico, R. Bonino, Gloria Spandre, Claudia Cecchi, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, M.-H. Grondin, S. Murgia, W. B. Focke, G. A. Caliandro, P. Spinelli, F. Spada, Francesco Giordano, Stefan Larsson, Luca Baldini, Lucas Guillemot, Sylvain Guiriec, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, M. Orienti, Matthew Wood, P. Fusco, Francesco Longo, L. Tibaldo, M. Caragiulo, G. Godfrey, F. de Palma, Diego F. Torres, Pascal Bruel, R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, J. B. Thayer, A. Franckowiak, A. B. Hill, Johan Bregeon, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, Jürgen Knödlseder, Ronaldo Bellazzini, 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, 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), 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), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Stanford University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari (INFN, sezione di Bari), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), 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), 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), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), GSFC Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm] (KTH ), Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC), Hansen Experimental Physics Lab [Stanford] (HEPL), Hiroshima University, 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), 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 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 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), Ackermann M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Ferrara EC, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grondin MH, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Harding AK, Hill AB, Horan D, Johannesson G, Knodlseder J, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lubrano P, Maldera S, Martin P, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Romani RW, Sanchez-Conde M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Wood M, Zimmer S, Ackermann, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Grondin, M. H., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Knödlseder, J., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Martin, P., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Romani, R. W., Sánchez Conde, M., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, M., Zimmer, S., Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, 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), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University [Stanford], National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), 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), 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), GFSC Astrophysics Science Division, and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)

Subjects
[SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Magellanic Cloud, Population, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, Magellanic Clouds, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Large Magellanic Cloud, education, Supernova remnant, gamma rays: galaxies / Magellanic Clouds / cosmic rays, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, education.field_of_study, Line-of-sight, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic rays, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, ddc:520, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

Context. The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in γ-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100 GeV as an extended source with CGRO/EGRET and using early observations with the Fermi-LAT. The emission was found to correlate with massive star-forming regions and to be particularly bright towards 30 Doradus. Aims: Studies of the origin and transport of cosmic rays (CRs) in the Milky Way are frequently hampered by line-of-sight confusion and poor distance determination. The LMC offers a complementary way to address these questions by revealing whether and how the γ-ray emission is connected to specific objects, populations of objects, and structures in the galaxy. Methods: We revisited the γ-ray emission from the LMC using about 73 months of Fermi-LAT P7REP data in the 0.2-100 GeV range. We developed a complete spatial and spectral model of the LMC emission, for which we tested several approaches: a simple geometrical description, template-fitting, and a physically driven model for CR-induced interstellar emission. Results: In addition to identifying PSR J0540-6919 through its pulsations, we find two hard sources positionally coincident with plerion N 157B and supernova remnant N 132D, which were also detected at TeV energies with H.E.S.S. We detect an additional soft source that is currently unidentified. Extended emission dominates the total flux from the LMC. It consists of an extended component of about the size of the galaxy and additional emission from three to four regions with degree-scale sizes. If it is interpreted as CRs interacting with interstellar gas, the large-scale emission implies a large-scale population of ~1-100 GeV CRs with a density of ~30% of the local Galactic value. On top of that, the three to four small-scale emission regions would correspond to enhancements of the CR density by factors 2 to 6 or higher, possibly more energetic and younger populations of CRs compared to the large-scale population. An alternative explanation is that this is emission from an unresolved population of at least two dozen objects, such as pulsars and their nebulae or supernova remnants. This small-scale extended emission has a spatial distribution that does not clearly correlate with known components of the LMC, except for a possible relation to cavities and supergiant shells. Conclusions: The Fermi-LAT GeV observations allowed us to detect individual sources in the LMC. Three of the newly discovered sources are associated with rare and extreme objects. The 30 Doradus region is prominent in GeV γ-rays because PSR J0540-6919 and N 157B are strong emitters. The extended emission from the galaxy has an unexpected spatial distribution, and observations at higher energies and in radio may help to clarify its origin. FITS file of Fig. 1 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/586/A71">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/586/A71

Published
2016

32. FERMI LAT STACKING ANALYSIS of SWIFT LOCALIZED GRBs

Author

Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, Stefano Ciprini, M. Orienti, L. Tibaldo, M. N. Mazziotta, Chryssa Kouveliotou, P. N. Bhat, M. Mayer, F. Spada, E. Orlando, N. Gehrels, Olaf Reimer, Luca Baldini, A. Franckowiak, John W. Hewitt, André Schulz, K. S. Wood, Sylvain Guiriec, Claudia Cecchi, M. E. Monzani, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, C. Favuzzi, Stefan Funk, A. von Kienlin, Hiromitsu Takahashi, F. Gargano, S. Cutini, A. Reimer, Rodrigo Nemmen, Michael David Werner, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Marco Ajello, D. Horan, G. Godfrey, Ronaldo Bellazzini, E. Nuss, J. B. Thayer, Brandon Anderson, R. Desiante, T. J. Brandt, E. J. Siskind, David Paneque, M. Kuss, P. Fusco, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Eric Charles, Eugenio Bottacini, F. Loparco, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, S. Buson, T. A. Porter, F. de Palma, Francesco Longo, Nicola Giglietto, A. Morselli, Stefan Larsson, Magnus Axelsson, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, Markus Ackermann, M. N. Lovellette, A. De Angelis, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, G. Tosti, M. Caragiulo, F. Piron, M. Schaal, Johan Bregeon, Masanori Ohno, M. Tinivella, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, Julie McEnery, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Denis Bastieri, Giacomo Vianello, James Chiang, G. Chiaro, Jingcheng Li, Nicola Omodei, J. E. Grove, A. B. Hill, R. Bonino, R. Claus, Dario Gasparrini, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Daniel Kocevski, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, Jan Conrad, Diego F. Torres, R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, Gloria Spandre, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Ackermann M, Ajello M, Anderson B, Atwood WB, Axelsson M, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bhat PN, Bissaldi E, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Gehrels N, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grove JE, Guiriec S, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Johannesson G, Kocevski D, Kouveliotou C, Kuss M, Larsson S, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McEnery JE, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Murgia S, Nemmen R, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Racusin JL, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Schaal M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Tibaldo L, Tinivella M, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, von Kienlin A, Werner M, Wood KS, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Anderson, B., Atwood, W. B., Axelsson, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bhat, P. N., Bissaldi, E., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Di Venere, L., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Gehrels, N., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guiriec, S., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kocevski, D., Kouveliotou, C., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Murgia, S., Nemmen, R., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Racusin, J. L., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Schaal, M., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Tinivella, M., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Kienlin, A. Von, Werner, M., Wood, K. S., and ITA

Subjects
Swift, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, Stacking, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, X-rays: bursts, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, computer.programming_language, Physics, gamma rays: general, methods: data analysis, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, 13. Climate action, data analysi [methods], ddc:520, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, burst [X-rays], general [gamma rays], computer, methods: data analysi, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The astrophysical journal 822(2), 68 (2016). doi:10.3847/0004-637X/822/2/68, We perform a comprehensive stacking analysis of data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of γ-ray bursts (GRBs) localized by the Swift spacecraft, which were not detected by the LAT but which fell within the instrument's field of view at the time of trigger. We examine a total of 79 GRBs by comparing the observed counts over a range of time intervals to that expected from designated background orbits, as well as by using a joint likelihood technique to model the expected distribution of stacked counts. We find strong evidence for subthreshold emission at MeV to GeV energies using both techniques. This observed excess is detected during intervals that include and exceed the durations typically characterizing the prompt emission observed at keV energies and lasts at least 2700 s after the co-aligned burst trigger. By utilizing a novel cumulative likelihood analysis, we find that although a burst's prompt γ-ray and afterglow X-ray flux both correlate with the strength of the subthreshold emission, the X-ray afterglow flux measured by Swift's X-ray Telescope at 11 hr post trigger correlates far more significantly. Overall, the extended nature of the subthreshold emission and its connection to the burst's afterglow brightness lend further support to the external forward shock origin of the late-time emission detected by the LAT. These results suggest that the extended high-energy emission observed by the LAT may be a relatively common feature but remains undetected in a majority of bursts owing to instrumental threshold effects., Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

Published
2016

33. Resolving the Extragalactic γ-Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author

Seb. Funk, Nicola Omodei, Luca Latronico, Soebur Razzaque, G. Godfrey, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, W. B. Atwood, Roger W. Romani, J. S. Perkins, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, F. de Palma, J. D. Magill, E. Hays, André Schulz, Nicola Giglietto, Diego F. Torres, S. J. Fegan, R. J. Britto, G. Jóhannesson, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Francesco Longo, A. A. Moiseev, Eric Charles, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, D. J. Suson, Luca Baldini, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, A. De Angelis, Jean Ballet, E. J. Siskind, M. Caragiulo, Sylvain Guiriec, Warit Mitthumsiri, Mn Mazziotta, T. A. Porter, G. Chiaro, A. Reimer, Yasushi Fukazawa, F. Loparco, A. Franckowiak, Stefano Ciprini, P. Spinelli, E. Troja, R. Desiante, R. Bonino, M. Di Mauro, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Francesco Giordano, M. Mayer, Markus Ackermann, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, P. Fusco, Elliott D. Bloom, R. A. Cameron, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Giacomo Vianello, G. La Mura, P. Bruel, Dario Gasparrini, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, G. Iafrate, E. Orlando, R. Buehler, D. Simone, E. Nuss, F. Spada, C. Okada, David Paneque, Jingcheng Li, Claudia Cecchi, Seth Digel, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. Kuss, Benoit Lott, J. F. Ormes, D. Horan, Johan Bregeon, F. Gargano, T. Reposeur, L. R. Cominsky, Igor V. Moskalenko, Matteo Negro, Olaf Reimer, M. Yassine, A. Morselli, Vahé Petrosian, Keith Bechtol, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, Stefan Larsson, C. Favuzzi, S. Cutini, Andrea Albert, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephan Zimmer, M. E. Monzani, T. Ohsugi, J. Schmid, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, Denis Bastieri, Paolo Giommi, Alberto Manfreda, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Tibaldo, L. Di Venere, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, Aaron Dominguez, T. Jogler, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), 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, Ackermann, M, Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bregeon, J., Britto, R. J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Domínguez, A., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Godfrey, G., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Horan, D., Iafrate, G., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Madejski, G. M., Magill, J., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Okada, C., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Romani, R. W., Sánchez Conde, M., Schmid, J., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Yassine, M., Zimmer, S., ITA, 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 ), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bregeon J, Britto RJ, Bruel P, Buehler R, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Dominguez A, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Godfrey G, Green D, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Hays E, Horan D, Iafrate G, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Kuss M, La Mura G, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Magill J, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Okada C, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reposeur T, Romani RW, Sanchez-Conde M, Schmid J, Schulz A, Sgro C, Simone D, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Troja E, Vianello G, Yassine M, Zimmer S, 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), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), 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), 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
Cherenkov Telescope Array, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Population, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, Astrophysics, photon: fluctuation, Euclidean, 01 natural sciences, GLAST, law.invention, Telescope, blazar: energy spectrum, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, Physics and Astronomy, Gamma Ray, Active Galactic Nuclei, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, Source counts, extragalactic gamma-ray background, Fermi-LAT, Blazar, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Monte Carlo, flux: energy dependence, Physics, education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, Astronomy, Galaxy, gamma ray: emission, angular resolution, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, acceptance
Abstract

Physical review letters 116(15), 151105(2016). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.151105, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis, which significantly improves the acceptance and angular resolution of the instrument. Most of the 2FHL sources at high Galactic latitude are blazars. Using detailed Monte Carlo simulations, we measure, for the first time, the source count distribution, dN/dS, of extragalactic γ-ray sources at E>50 GeV and find that it is compatible with a Euclidean distribution down to the lowest measured source flux in the 2FHL (∼8×10$^{−12}$ ph cm$^{−2}$ s$^{−1}$). We employ a one-point photon fluctuation analysis to constrain the behavior of dN/dS below the source detection threshold. Overall, the source count distribution is constrained over three decades in flux and found compatible with a broken power law with a break flux, Sb, in the range [8×10$^{−12}$,1.5×10$^{−11}$] ph cm$^{−2}$ s$^{−1}$ and power-law indices below and above the break of $\alpha_2$∈[1.60,1.75] and $\alpha_1$=2.49±0.12, respectively. Integration of dN/dS shows that point sources account for at least 86$^{+16}_{−14}$% of the total extragalactic γ-ray background. The simple form of the derived source count distribution is consistent with a single population (i.e., blazars) dominating the source counts to the minimum flux explored by this analysis. We estimate the density of sources detectable in blind surveys that will be performed in the coming years by the Cherenkov Telescope Array., Published by APS, College Park, Md.

Published
2016

34. Measurement of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from the Moon with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author

J. W. Hewitt, A. Chekhtman, D. Horan, P. Lubrano, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, P. Fusco, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, David Paneque, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Denis Bastieri, Paola Sala, S. Cutini, M. Kuss, Stefano Ciprini, J. D. Magill, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, S. Maldera, M. Mayer, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, I. A. Grenier, A. Franckowiak, E. Cavazzuti, Brian L Winer, Gloria Spandre, Francesco Longo, Stefan Funk, Luca Baldini, F. Cerutti, F. Piron, F. Spada, M. Caragiulo, Dario Gasparrini, Xian Hou, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, Olaf Reimer, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, F. Loparco, M. Yassine, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, M. N. Mazziotta, Alice K. Harding, Alessandro Cuoco, Vahé Petrosian, Nicola Giglietto, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, C. Favuzzi, Diego F. Torres, G. Godfrey, G. Chiaro, J. E. Grove, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, F. Costanza, G. Iafrate, Warit Mitthumsiri, J. F. Ormes, R. Bonino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Nicola Omodei, Andrea Albert, Jingcheng Li, M. N. Lovellette, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, P. A. Caraveo, M. E. Monzani, F. de Palma, T. Reposeur, Claudia Cecchi, Persis S. Drell, Seth Digel, Francesco Giordano, S. J. Fegan, James Chiang, L. Tibaldo, K. S. Wood, Roger Blandford, Eleonora Troja, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, R. Buehler, F. Gargano, S. Guiriec, R. A. Cameron, Peter F. Michelson, P. Bruel, Marcello Giroletti, R. Claus, E. J. Siskind, A. Reimer, D. J. Thompson, Gudlaugur Johannesson, R. Desiante, T. Glanzman, Markus Ackermann, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, Luca Latronico, A. Morselli, Stefan Larsson, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Arnaud Ferrari, Johan Bregeon, E. 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Subjects
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Proton, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], emission: spectrum, Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: interaction, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), helium: nucleus, law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Emission spectrum, Moon, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Gamma Ray, Gamma ray, Gamma-ray astronomy, Cosmic Rays, solar, gamma ray: emission, high-energy gamma-ray emission, Moon, Fermi Large Area Telescope, Physics::Space Physics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, satellite, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, helium: spectrum, Cosmic Ray, gamma ray: energy spectrum, Article, GLAST, Telescope, surface: lunar, [ PHYS.HEXP ] Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, flux, 13. Climate action, correlation, p: cosmic radiation, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

We have measured the gamma-ray emission spectrum of the Moon using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite during its first 7 years of operation, in the energy range from 30 MeV up to a few GeV. We have also studied the time evolution of the flux, finding a correlation with the solar activity. We have developed a full Monte Carlo simulation describing the interactions of cosmic rays with the lunar surface. The results of the present analysis can be explained in the framework of this model, where the production of gamma rays is due to the interactions of cosmic-ray proton and helium nuclei with the surface of the Moon. Finally, we have used our simulation to derive the cosmic-ray proton and helium spectra near Earth from the Moon gamma-ray data., Comment: Published by PRD, 16 pages, 11 figures, corresponding authors: F. Loparco and M. N. Mazziotta

Published
2016

35. FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS of the LIGO EVENT GW150914

Author

Denis Bastieri, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, Andrea Albert, J. L. Racusin, M. N. Mazziotta, Roger W. Romani, S. Maldera, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, Eric Charles, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Steven Ritz, R. J. Britto, D. J. Suson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Marelli, Stephan Zimmer, Gudlaugur Johannesson, M. Caragiulo, M. Giomi, T. H. Burnett, T. J. Brandt, M. E. Monzani, Lucas Guillemot, David A. Smith, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Liang Li, R. Bonino, Guido Barbiellini, A. Reimer, J. Becerra González, Nestor Mirabal, Dario Gasparrini, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, L. S. Rochester, A. Morselli, T. Glanzman, Seth Digel, P. Fusco, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, T. Reposeur, Matthew G. Baring, Sara Buson, Sylvain Guiriec, R. A. Cameron, Jean Ballet, E. Hays, A. Franckowiak, G. Godfrey, Brandon Anderson, J. G. Thayer, Stefano Ciprini, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, Stefan Funk, T. A. Porter, D. Dumora, S. Rainò, J. D. Magill, Daniel Kocevski, Paolo Giommi, F. de Palma, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, G. Chiaro, F. Loparco, M. Orienti, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, Marco Ajello, R. Dubois, J. B. Thayer, J. W. Hewitt, Manuel Meyer, Jonathan Granot, J. F. Ormes, Alice K. Harding, D. Horan, E. Orlando, E. Moretti, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, P. Spinelli, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, B. Condon, R. Desiante, Daniela Hadasch, Soebur Razzaque, Makoto Arimoto, Jingcheng Li, I. A. Grenier, K. S. Wood, L. Tibaldo, Francesco Giordano, Johan Bregeon, Nicola Omodei, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, A. B. Hill, E. Cavazzuti, Matthew Wood, Julie McEnery, D. Simone, E. Nuss, David Paneque, S. J. Fegan, M. Kuss, J. M. Casandjian, L. R. Cominsky, P. Bruel, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, N. Gehrels, D. J. Thompson, C. Favuzzi, Tonia M. Venters, Giacomo Vianello, G. La Mura, Ronaldo Bellazzini, F. Gargano, Luca Latronico, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, E. J. Siskind, Magnus Axelsson, Markus Ackermann, Diego F. Torres, R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, F. Spada, R. Caputo, Hiroyasu Tajima, Stefan Larsson, Filippo D'Ammando, Alessandro Cuoco, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Francesco Longo, T. Jogler, Sylvia J. Zhu, Aaron Dominguez, Yasunobu Uchiyama, M. Di Mauro, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, M.-H. Grondin, S. Murgia, G. A. 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gamma-ray burst: general, gamma-rays: general, gravitational waves, methods: observational, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, observational [methods], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, ravitational waves, law, Observatory, gamma-ray burst: general – gamma-rays: general – gravitational waves – methods: observational, 0103 physical sciences, gravitational wave, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, gamma-rays: general, gravitational waves, methods: observational, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, gamma rays: general, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Gamma-ray burst: general, LIGO, Black hole, Interferometry, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma-rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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The astrophysical journal / 2 823(1), L2(2016). doi:10.3847/2041-8205/823/1/L2, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view (FoV) covering $\sim 1/5$ of the sky and it completes a survey of the entire sky in high-energy gamma-rays every 3 hr. It enables searches for transient phenomena over timescales from milliseconds to years. Among these phenomena could be electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) sources. In this paper, we present a detailed study of the LAT observations relevant to Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) event GW150914, which is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and has been interpreted as being due to the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The localization region for GW150914 was outside the LAT FoV at the time of the GW signal. However, as part of routine survey observations, the LAT observed the entire LIGO localization region within ~70 minutes of the trigger and thus enabled a comprehensive search for a γ-ray counterpart to GW150914. The study of the LAT data presented here did not find any potential counterparts to GW150914, but it did provide limits on the presence of a transient counterpart above 100 MeV on timescales of hours to days over the entire GW150914 localization region., Published by Institute of Physics Publ., London

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2016

36. NuSTAR and multifrequency study of the two high-redshift blazars S5 0836+710 and PKS 2149-306

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Stefano Covino, C. J. Hailey, Finn Erland Christensen, M. Perri, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, William W. Craig, M. Hayashida, Fiona A. Harrison, Paolo Giommi, Steven E. Boggs, Grzegorz Madejski, Gabriele Ghisellini, Simonetta Puccetti, Mislav Baloković, James Chiang, Tullia Sbarrato, Daniel Stern, William W. Zhang, Tagliaferri, G, Ghisellini, G, Perri, M, Hayashida, M, Baloković, M, Covino, S, Giommi, P, Madejski, G, Puccetti, S, Sbarrato, T, Boggs, S, Chiang, J, Christensen, F, Craig, W, Hailey, C, Harrison, F, Stern, D, Zhang, W, ITA, and USA

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Photon, Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, active [Galaxies], galaxies: jet, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, BL Lacertae objects: individual (PKS 2149-306 S5 0836+710), X-rays: general, law.invention, Telescope, law, quasars: general, general [X-rays], Radiative transfer, Blazar, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Torus, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysics, general [Quasars], Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, individual (PKS 2149–306, S5 0836+710) [BL Lacertae objects], jets [Galaxies], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

The most powerful blazars are the flat spectrum radio quasars whose emission is dominated by a Compton component peaking between a few hundred keV and a few hundred MeV. We selected two bright blazars, PKS 2149-306 at redshift z=2.345 and S5 0836+710 at z=2.172, in order to observe them in the hard X-ray band with the NuSTAR satellite. In this band the Compton component is rapidly rising almost up to the peak of the emission. Simultaneous soft-X-rays and UV-optical observations were performed with the Swift satellite, while near-infrared (NIR) data were obtained with the REM telescope. To study their variability, we repeated these observations for both sources on a timescale of a few months. While no fast variability was detected during a single observation, both sources were found to be variable in the X-ray band, up to 50%, between the two observations, with larger variability at higher energies. No variability was detected in the optical/NIR band. These data together with Fermi-LAT, WISE and other literature data are then used to study the overall spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these blazars. Although the jet non-thermal emission dominates the SED, it leaves the UV band unhidden, allowing us to detect the thermal emission of the disc and to estimate the mass of the black hole. The non-thermal emission is well reproduced by a one-zone leptonic model. The non-thermal radiative processes are synchrotron, self-Compton and external Compton using seed photons from both the broad-line region (BLR) and the torus. We find that our data are better reproduced if we assume that the location of the dissipation region of the jet, R_diss, is in-between the torus, (at R_torus), and the BLR (R_torus>R_diss>R_BLR). The observed variability is explained by changing a minimum number of model parameters by a very small amount., 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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2015
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37. VERY HIGH ENERGY γ -RAYS FROM THE UNIVERSE’S MIDDLE AGE: DETECTION OF THE z = 0.940 BLAZAR PKS 1441+25 WITH MAGIC

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M. Pesce Rollins, Lluis Font, Francesco Longo, Abelardo Moralejo, I. Snidaric, Thomas Bretz, M. Feige, E. Moretti, Mosè Mariotti, A.-K. Overkemping, M. Makariev, D. Wolfert, E. Lorenz, Max Ludwig Ahnen, S. Haarto, P. Giammaria, T. Steinbring, S. Maldera, F. de Palma, D. Dominis Prester, Nicola Omodei, Marcel Strzys, P. Haeusner, R. Clavero, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, R. Reinthal, R. Zanin, Elina Lindfors, D. Nakajima, Daniela Dorner, Adrian Biland, P. G. Prada Moroni, R. A. Cameron, M. Gaug, M. Caragiulo, Johan Bregeon, Saverio Lombardi, Kyoshi Nishijima, Arka Chatterjee, D. Fidalgo, U. Barres de Almeida, Damir Lelas, J. Kushida, Daniel Mazin, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, Julie McEnery, Anne Lähteenmäki, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Julian Sitarek, A. López Oramas, J. Herrera, Wolfgang Rhode, J. Rico, J. Klamt, Dorota Sobczyńska, Jose Luis Contreras, Hiroyasu Tajima, X. Paredes Fortuny, Koji Noda, J. Li, A. Niedzwiecki, Masahiro Teshima, P. Bruel, E. Orlando, Yusuke Konno, T. 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Subjects
individual (PKS 1441+25) [quasars], cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, Raigs gamma, Jets (Astrofísica), galaxies: active, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, quasars: individual (PKS 1441+25), MAGIC (telescope), Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Extragalactic background light, active [galaxies], Spectral energy distribution, Electrónica, Física nuclear, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.GA, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], cosmic background radiation – galaxies: active – galaxies: jets – gamma rays: galaxies – quasars: individual (PKS 1441+25), galaxie [gamma rays], Blazar, Quasars, Quàsars, Gamma rays, Quasar, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, Astrophysical jets, jet [galaxies], 13. Climate action, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract

The flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1441+25 at a redshift of z = 0.940 is detected between 40 and 250 GeV with a significance of 25.5 {\sigma} using the MAGIC telescopes. Together with the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 (z = 0.944), PKS 1441+25 is the most distant very high energy (VHE) blazar detected to date. The observations were triggered by an outburst in 2015 April seen at GeV energies with the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi. Multi-wavelength observations suggest a subdivision of the high state into two distinct flux states. In the band covered by MAGIC, the variability time scale is estimated to be 6.4 +/- 1.9 days. Modeling the broadband spectral energy distribution with an external Compton model, the location of the emitting region is understood as originating in the jet outside the broad line region (BLR) during the period of high activity, while being partially within the BLR during the period of low (typical) activity. The observed VHE spectrum during the highest activity is used to probe the extragalactic background light at an unprecedented distance scale for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy., Comment: Corresponding Authors: J. Becerra (josefa.becerra@nasa.gov), M. Nievas Rosillo (mnievas@ucm.es), M. Manganaro (manganaro@iac.es), F. Tavecchio (fabrizio.tavecchio@brera.inaf.it) Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), 2015ApJ...815L..23A, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/815/2/L23

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2015

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