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1. The Fermi-LAT Lightcurve Repository

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

Author: A. V. Olinto, J. Krizmanic, J. H. Adams, R. Aloisio, L. A. Anchordoqui, M. Bagheri, D. Barghini, M. Battisti, D. R. Bergman, M. E. Bertaina, P. F. Bertone, F. Bisconti, M. Bustamante, M. Casolino, K. Cerny, M. J. Christi, A. L. Cummings, I. de Mitri, R. Diesing, R. Engel, J. Eser, K. Fang, F. Fenu, G. Filippatos, E. Gazda, C. Guepin, A. Haungs, E. A. Hays, E. G. Judd, P. Klimov, V. Kungel, E. Kuznetsov, S. Mackovjak, D. Mandat, L. Marcelli, J. McEnery, G. Medina-Tanco, K. -D. Merenda, S. S. Meyer, J. W. Mitchell, H. Miyamoto, J. M. Nachtman, A. Neronov, F. Oikonomou, Y. Onel, A. N. Otte, E. Parizot, T. Paul, M. Pech, J. S. Perkins, P. Picozza, L. W. Piotrowski, Z. Plebaniak, G. Prevot, P. Reardon, M. H. Reno, M. Ricci, O. Romero Matamala, F. Sarazin, P. Schovanek, K. Shinozaki, J. F. Soriano, F. Stecker, Y. Takizawa, R. Ulrich, M. Unger, T. M. Venters, L. Wiencke, D. Winn, R. M. Young, and M. Zotov
Subjects: Astrophysics
Abstract: The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to accurately observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and cosmic neutrinos from space with sensitivity over the full celestial sky. POEMMA will observe the air fluorescence produced by extensive air showers (EASs) from UHECRs and potentially UHE neutrinos above 20 EeV. Additionally, POEMMA has the ability to observe the Cherenkov signal from upward-moving EASs induced by Earth-interacting tau neutrinos above 20 PeV. The POEMMA spacecraft are designed to quickly re-orientate to follow up transient neutrino sources and obtain currently unparalleled neutrino flux sensitivity. Developed as a NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, POEMMA consists of two identical satellites flying in loose formation in 525 km altitude orbits. Each POEMMA instrument incorporates a wide field-of-view (45°) Schmidt telescope with an optical collecting area of over 6 sq. m. The hybrid focal surface of each telescope includes a fast (1 μs) near-ultraviolet camera for EAS fluorescence observations and an ultrafast (10 ns) optical camera for Cherenkov EAS observations. In a 5-year mission, POEMMA will provide measurements that open new multi-messenger windows onto the most energetic events in the universe, enabling the study of new astrophysics and particle physics at these extreme energies.
Published: 2021
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3. Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog

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

Author: S. Abdollahi, M. Ajello, L. Baldini, J. Ballet, D. Bastieri, J. Becerra Gonzalez, R. Bellazzini, A. Berretta, E. Bissaldi, R. Bonino, A. Brill, P. Bruel, E. Burns, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, R. Caputo, P. A. Caraveo, N. Cibrario, S. Ciprini, P. Cristarella Orestano, M. Crnogorcevic, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, S. De Gaetano, S. W. Digel, N. Di Lalla, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, V. Fallah Ramazani, S. J. Fegan, E. C. Ferrara, A. Fiori, H. Fleischhack, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, P. Fusco, V. Gammaldi, F. Gargano, S. Garrappa, C. Gasbarra, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, D. Green, I. A. Grenier, S. Guiriec, M. Gustafsson, E. Hays, D. Horan, X. Hou, G. Jóhannesson, M. Kerr, D. Kocevski, M. Kuss, L. Latronico, J. Li, I. Liodakis, F. Longo, F. Loparco, L. Lorusso, B. Lott, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, G. Martí-Devesa, M. N. Mazziotta, I. Mereu, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, M. Negro, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, G. Panzarini, J. S. Perkins, M. Persic, M. Pesce-Rollins, R. Pillera, T. A. Porter, G. Principe, J. L. Racusin, S. Rainò, R. Rando, B. Rani, M. Razzano, S. Razzaque, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, M. Sánchez-Conde, P. M. Saz Parkinson, Jeff Scargle, L. Scotton, D. Serini, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, D. J. Suson, H. Tajima, D. J. Thompson, D. F. Torres, J. Valverde, T. Venters, Z. Wadiasingh, S. Wagner, K. Wood, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Active galactic nuclei, Light Curves (918), Gamma-ray astronomy, Space and Planetary Science, Física, FOS: Physical sciences, Gamma-ray astronomy, Active galactic nuclei, Light curves, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-Ray Astronomy (628), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Active Galactic Nuclei (16), Light curves, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores, solo se referencian el que aparece en primer lugar, los autores pertenecientes a la UAM y el nombre del grupo de colaboración, si lo hubiere, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) lightcurve repository (LCR) is a publicly available, continually updated library of gamma-ray lightcurves of variable Fermi-LAT sources generated over multiple timescales. The Fermi-LAT LCR aims to provide publication-quality lightcurves binned on timescales of 3, 7, and 30 days for 1525 sources deemed variable in the source catalog of the first 10 yr of Fermi-LAT observations. The repository consists of lightcurves generated through full likelihood analyses that model the sources and the surrounding region, providing fluxes and photon indices for each time bin. The LCR is intended as a resource for the time-domain and multimessenger communities by allowing users to search LAT data quickly to identify correlated variability and flaring emission episodes from gamma-ray sources. We describe the sample selection and analysis employed by the LCR and provide an overview of the associated data access portal, M.N. and J.V. acknowledge that the material is based upon work supported by NASA under award number 80GSFC21M0002. D.K. and M.N. acknowledge support to this work from NASA Fermi GI Program under grant number 80NSSC23K0242. A.B. is supported by the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities. INFN and ASI personnel performed in part under ASI-INFN Agreements No. 2021-43-HH.0. Work at NRL is supported by NASA. The Fermi-LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515
Published: 2023
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5. Cosmic-ray electron-positron spectrum from 7 GeV to 2 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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

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

Author: M, Ajello, L, Baldini, G, Barbiellini, D, Bastieri, R, Bellazzini, E, Bissaldi, R D, Blandford, R, Bonino, E, Bottacini, J, Bregeon, P, Bruel, R, Buehler, R A, Cameron, R, Caputo, P A, Caraveo, G, Chiaro, S, Ciprini, J, Cohen-Tanugi, D, Costantin, F, D'Ammando, F, DE Palma, N, DI Lalla, M, DI Mauro, L, DI Venere, A, Domínguez, C, Favuzzi, A, Franckowiak, Y, Fukazawa, S, Funk, P, Fusco, F, Gargano, D, Gasparrini, N, Giglietto, F, Giordano, M, Giroletti, D, Green, I A, Grenier, S, Guiriec, C, Holt, D, Horan, G, Jóhannesson, D, Kocevski, M, Kuss, G, LA Mura, S, Larsson, J, Li, F, Longo, F, Loparco, P, Lubrano, J D, Magill, S, Maldera, A, Manfreda, M N, Mazziotta, P F, Michelson, T, Mizuno, M E, Monzani, A, Morselli, M, Negro, E, Nuss, N, Omodei, M, Orienti, E, Orlando, V S, Paliya, J S, Perkins, M, Persic, M, Pesce-Rollins, F, Piron, G, Principe, J L, Racusin, S, Rainò, R, Rando, M, Razzano, S, Razzaque, A, Reimer, O, Reimer, C, Sgrò, E J, Siskind, G, Spandre, P, Spinelli, D, Tak, J B, Thayer, D F, Torres, G, Tosti, J, Valverde, M, Vogel, and K, Wood
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Article
Abstract: We use joint observations by the Neil Gehrels Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows to investigate the nature of the long-lived high-energy emission observed by Fermi LAT. Joint broadband spectral modeling of XRT and LAT data reveal that LAT non-detections of bright X-ray afterglows are consistent with a cooling break in the inferred electron synchrotron spectrum below the LAT and/or XRT energy ranges. Such a break is sufficient to suppress the high-energy emission so as to be below the LAT detection threshold. By contrast, LAT-detected bursts are best fit by a synchrotron spectrum with a cooling break that lies either between or above the XRT and LAT energy ranges. We speculate that the primary difference between GRBs with LAT afterglow detections and the non-detected population may be in the type of circumstellar environment in which these bursts occur, with late-time LAT detections preferentially selecting GRBs that occur in low wind-like circumburst density profiles. Furthermore, we find no evidence of high-energy emission in the LAT-detected population significantly in excess of the flux expected from the electron synchrotron spectrum fit to the observed X-ray emission. The lack of excess emission at high energies could be due to a shocked external medium in which the energy density in the magnetic field is stronger than or comparable to that of the relativistic electrons behind the shock, precluding the production of a dominant synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) component in the LAT energy range. Alternatively, the peak of the SSC emission could be beyond the 0.1–100 GeV energy range considered for this analysis.
Published: 2022

8. Search for Spectral Irregularities due to Photon–Axionlike-Particle Oscillations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. Ajello, A. Albert, B. Anderson, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, E. D. Bloom, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, C. Cecchi, A. Chekhtman, S. Ciprini, J. Cohen-Tanugi, J. Conrad, F. Costanza, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, M. Di Mauro, L. Di Venere, A. Domínguez, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, W. B. Focke, A. Franckowiak, Y. Fukazawa, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, S. Guiriec, D. Horan, G. Jóhannesson, M. Katsuragawa, S. Kensei, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, L. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, G. M. Madejski, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, M. Mayer, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Meyer, P. F. Michelson, N. Mirabal, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, I. V. Moskalenko, S. Murgia, M. Negro, E. Nuss, C. Okada, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, F. Piron, G. Pivato, T. A. Porter, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, M. Sánchez-Conde, C. Sgrò, D. Simone, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, Y. Uchiyama, K. S. Wood, M. Wood, G. Zaharijas, and S. Zimmer
Published: 2016
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9. Resolving the Extragalacticγ-Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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

Author: M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, G. Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, R. Bellazzini, E. Bissaldi, R. D. Blandford, R. Bonino, E. Bottacini, J. Bregeon, P. Bruel, R. Buehler, G. A. Caliandro, R. A. Cameron, M. Caragiulo, P. A. Caraveo, E. Cavazzuti, C. Cecchi, A. Chekhtman, J. Chiang, G. Chiaro, S. Ciprini, R. Claus, J. Cohen-Tanugi, F. Costanza, A. Cuoco, S. Cutini, F. D’Ammando, A. de Angelis, F. de Palma, R. Desiante, S. W. Digel, L. Di Venere, P. S. Drell, C. Favuzzi, S. J. Fegan, W. B. Focke, A. Franckowiak, S. Funk, P. Fusco, F. Gargano, D. Gasparrini, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, M. Giroletti, T. Glanzman, G. Godfrey, I. A. Grenier, J. E. Grove, S. Guiriec, A. K. Harding, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, X. Hou, G. Iafrate, G. Jóhannesson, T. Kamae, M. Kuss, S. Larsson, L. Latronico, J. Li, L. Li, F. Longo, F. Loparco, M. N. Lovellette, P. Lubrano, J. Magill, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, M. Mayer, M. N. Mazziotta, P. F. Michelson, W. Mitthumsiri, T. Mizuno, M. E. Monzani, A. Morselli, S. Murgia, E. Nuss, N. Omodei, E. Orlando, J. F. Ormes, D. Paneque, J. S. Perkins, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian, F. Piron, G. Pivato, S. Rainò, R. Rando, M. Razzano, A. Reimer, O. Reimer, T. Reposeur, C. Sgrò, E. J. Siskind, F. Spada, G. Spandre, P. Spinelli, H. Takahashi, J. B. Thayer, D. J. Thompson, L. Tibaldo, D. F. Torres, G. Tosti, E. Troja, G. Vianello, B. L. Winer, K. S. Wood, M. Yassine, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, and P. R. Sala
Published: 2016
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11. Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation

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

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

Author: Patrick J. Reardon, P. Bertone, A. Anzalone, Y. Takizawa, Kevin-Druis Merenda, Ke Fang, S. Mackovjak, M. Bagheri, Roberto Aloisio, M. E. Bertaina, S. S. Meyer, G. Filippatos, Ralf Ulrich, D. Barghini, Douglas Bergman, Jane Nachtman, Yasar Onel, Fred Sarazin, R. Young, E. G. Judd, Mark Christl, D. Winn, K. Shinozaki, Angela V. Olinto, Miroslav Pech, P. Picozza, L. Marcelli, E. Hays, G. Prévôt, M. Battisti, Dusan Mandat, Floyd W. Stecker, F. Oikonomou, Z. Plebaniak, A. Haungs, Jorge F. Soriano, Ralph Engel, A. N. Otte, John Mitchell, Francesco Fenu, Johannes Eser, Mauricio Bustamante, Petr Schovanek, Eliza Gazda, M. Ricci, Mikhail Zotov, Rossella Caruso, Andrii Neronov, E. Parizot, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Valentina Scotti, V. Kungel, A. L. Cummings, F. Cafagna, Pavel Klimov, Marco Casolino, James H. Adams, C. Guepin, G. Osteria, E. Kuznetsov, O. Romero Matamala, I. De Mitri, K. Černý, J. S. Perkins, Tonia M. Venters, R. Diesing, T. Paul, L. R. Wiencke, G. Medina-Tanco, Mary Hall Reno, John F. Krizmanic, H. Miyamoto, Lech Wiktor Piotrowski, Julie McEnery, Francesca Bisconti, M. Unger, Collaboration, P., Olinto, A. V., Krizmanic, J., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Anzalone, A., Bagheri, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P. F., Bisconti, F., Bustamante, M., Cafagna, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cerny, K., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A. L., De Mitri, I., Diesing, R., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fang, K., Fenu, F., Filippatos, G., Gazda, E., Guepin, C., Haungs, A., Hays, E. A., Judd, E. G., Klimov, P., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, S., Mandat, D., Marcelli, L., Mcenery, J., Medina-Tanco, G., Merenda, K. -D., Meyer, S. S., Mitchell, J. W., Miyamoto, H., Nachtman, J. M., Neronov, A., Oikonomou, F., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Pech, M., Perkins, J. S., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prevot, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Romero Matamala, O., Sarazin, F., Schovanek, P., Scotti, V., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Stecker, F., Takizawa, Y., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Venters, T. M., Wiencke, L., Winn, D., Young, R. M., Zotov, M., 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 de Paris (UP), POEMMA, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: air: fluorescence, cosmic rays detectors, neutrino astronomy, ultra high energy cosmic rays, ultra high energy photons and neutrinos, Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, neutrino: flux, ultra high energy cosmic ray, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, law, ultraviolet, optical, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Cherenkov, orbit, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), COSMIC cancer database, formation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Schmidt camera, neutrino: UHE, observatory, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, satellite, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, cosmic radiation: UHE, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], cosmic rays detector, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, neutrino/tau, showers: atmosphere, hybrid, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, detector: surface, Astronomy and Astrophysics, neutrino: particle source, sensitivity, messenger, 13. Climate action, Neutrino astronomy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to accurately observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and cosmic neutrinos from space with sensitivity over the full celestial sky. POEMMA will observe the extensive air showers (EASs) from UHECRs and UHE neutrinos above 20 EeV via air fluorescence. Additionally, POEMMA will observe the Cherenkov signal from upward-moving EASs induced by Earth-interacting tau neutrinos above 20 PeV. The POEMMA spacecraft are designed to quickly re-orientate to follow up transient neutrino sources and obtain unparalleled neutrino flux sensitivity. Developed as a NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, POEMMA consists of two identical satellites flying in loose formation in 525 km altitude orbits. Each POEMMA instrument incorporates a wide field-of-view (45$^\circ$) Schmidt telescope with over 6 m$^2$ of collecting area. The hybrid focal surface of each telescope includes a fast (1~$\mu$s) near-ultraviolet camera for EAS fluorescence observations and an ultrafast (10~ns) optical camera for Cherenkov EAS observations. In a 5-year mission, POEMMA will provide measurements that open new multi-messenger windows onto the most energetic events in the universe, enabling the study of new astrophysics and particle physics at these otherwise inaccessible energies., Comment: 66 pages, 53 figures; JCAP accepted version
Published: 2021
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14. The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) mission

Author: A. Neronov, Francesco Fenu, Mark Christl, S. Mackovjak, Alessandro Liberatore, J. S. Perkins, P. Bertone, Mauricio Bustamante, F. Bisconti, T. Paul, E. Hays, James H. Adams, Guillaume Prévôt, R. D. Young, E. G. Judd, C. Guepin, Patrick J. Reardon, F. W. Stecker, Roberto Aloisio, K. Shinozaki, Angela V. Olinto, M. E. Bertaina, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Mary Hall Reno, Tonia M. Venters, John F. Krizmanic, E. Kuznetsov, E. Parizot, Julie McEnery, J. W. Mitchell, Foteini Oikonomou, M. Unger, Marco Casolino, Johannes Eser, I. DeMitri, Douglas Bergman, J.F. Soriano, R. Diesing, L. R. Wiencke, F. Sarazin, Maria Teresa Ricci, A. N. Otte, Y. Takizawa, Ralf Ulrich, Austin Cummings, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), 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), 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), 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 de Paris (UP), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Subjects: Astrophysics and Astronomy, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, satellite, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), law, 0103 physical sciences, ultraviolet, optical, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], surface, Cherenkov, ddc:530, cosmic radiation: UHE, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], 010306 general physics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Cherenkov radiation, media_common, Physics, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), COSMIC cancer database, hybrid, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, formation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Photometer, messenger, Sky, Focal surface, fluorescence, Neutrino, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Ultrashort pulse, Particle Physics - Experiment, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to observe cosmic neutrinos (CNs) above 20 PeV and ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 20 EeV over the full sky. The POEMMA mission calls for two identical satellites flying in loose formation, each comprised of a 4-meter wide field-of-view (45 degrees) Schmidt photometer. The hybrid focal surface includes a fast (1 ${\mu}$s) ultraviolet camera for fluorescence observations and an ultrafast (10 ns) optical camera for Cherenkov observations. POEMMA will provide new multi-messenger windows onto the most energetic events in the universe, enabling the study of new astrophysics and particle physics at these otherwise inaccessible energies., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, presented in 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Madison). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1907.06217
Published: 2019
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15. Search for Spatial Extension in High-Latitude Sources Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

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

Author: Daniel Kocevski, Giacomo Principe, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Vaidehi S. Paliya, P. Spinelli, M. E. Monzani, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Francesco Giordano, G. Tosti, M. Vogel, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, F. Piron, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, Diego F. Torres, D. Costantin, C. Holt, Olaf Reimer, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Nicola Omodei, G. La Mura, P. Fusco, Stefan Larsson, Aaron Dominguez, G. Jóhannesson, Guido Barbiellini, I. A. Grenier, R. A. Cameron, P. Lubrano, Stefano Ciprini, M. Kuss, David H. Green, P. Bruel, Denis Bastieri, E. J. Siskind, M. Razzano, Soebur Razzaque, Marco Ajello, Gloria Spandre, C. Favuzzi, Dario Gasparrini, Ronaldo Bellazzini, J. B. Thayer, M. N. Mazziotta, Filippo D'Ammando, Stefan Funk, J. Valverde, Regina Caputo, J. D. Magill, Massimo Persic, Francesco Longo, J. S. Perkins, M. Orienti, F. Loparco, Eric Nuss, K. S. Wood, D. Tak, R. Buehler, Nicola Giglietto, Johan Bregeon, S. Maldera, D. Horan, J. L. Racusin, Anna Franckowiak, R. Bonino, A. Reimer, S. Rainò, J. Li, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Eugenio Bottacini, Tsunefumi Mizuno, P. A. Caraveo, Alberto Manfreda, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, F. Gargano, Roger Blandford, F. de Palma, M. Di Mauro, G. Chiaro, L. Di Venere, Yasushi Fukazawa, E. Orlando, 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), 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), 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), 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), Raunvísindastofnun (HÍ), Science Institute (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands (HÍ), University of Iceland (UI), ITA, Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caraveo, P. A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Dominguez, A., Favuzzi, C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Holt, C., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V. S., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Principe, G., Racusin, J. L., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sgro, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Tak, D., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Valverde, J., Vogel, M., Wood, K., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)
Subjects: Sjónaukar, long-lived, Gammageislar, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, gamma-ray burst: general, electron: relativistic, FOS: Physical sciences, magnetic field, Gamma-ray burst: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], gamma ray: burst, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, GLAST, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, synchrotron, ddc:530, X-ray: emission, energy: density, education, Gamma-ray burst, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), education.field_of_study, energy: high, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gamma ray, Compton scattering, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Synchrotron, Afterglow, electron: spectrum, flux, electron synchrotron, spectral, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], X-ray: detector, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Publisher's version (útgefin grein)., We use joint observations by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows to investigate the nature of the long-lived high-energy emission observed by Fermi LAT. Joint broadband spectral modeling of XRT and LAT data reveals that LAT nondetections of bright X-ray afterglows are consistent with a cooling break in the inferred electron synchrotron spectrum below the LAT and/or XRT energy ranges. Such a break is sufficient to suppress the high-energy emission so as to be below the LAT detection threshold. By contrast, LAT-detected bursts are best fit by a synchrotron spectrum with a cooling break that lies either between or above the XRT and LAT energy ranges. We speculate that the primary difference between GRBs with LAT afterglow detections and the nondetected population may be in the type of circumstellar environment in which these bursts occur, with late-time LAT detections preferentially selecting GRBs that occur in low wind-like circumburst density profiles. Furthermore, we find no evidence of high-energy emission in the LATdetected population significantly in excess of the flux expected from the electron synchrotron spectrum fit to the observed X-ray emission. The lack of excess emission at high energies could be due to a shocked external medium in which the energy density in the magnetic field is stronger than or comparable to that of the relativistic electrons behind the shock, precluding the production of a dominant synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) component in the LAT energy range. Alternatively, the peak of the SSC emission could be beyond the 0.1–100 GeV energy range considered for this analysis., Funding text #1 46 Funded by contract FIRB-2012-RBFR12PM1F from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). 47 https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/observations/types/grbs/lat_grbs/ Funding text #2 The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT, as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States; the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France; the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy; the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan; and the K.A.Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council, and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden. Funding text #3 Additional support for science analysis during the operations phase is gratefully acknowledged from the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France. This work performed in part under DOE Contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
Published: 2018
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17. The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter

Author: Dario Gasparrini, J. Ballet, Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, L. Latronico, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, K. Tanaka, P. Bruel, A. S. Johnson, S. W. Digel, T. Ohsugi, M. Orienti, M. Ackermann, Eric Charles, Eleonora Troja, D. Malyshev, Yasunobu Uchiyama, T. H. Burnett, Soebur Razzaque, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, Warit Mitthumsiri, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, John W. Hewitt, T. Jogler, G. Barbiellini, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, F. de Palma, D. J. Suson, W. B. Focke, T. J. Brandt, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Frederic Piron, Alice K. Harding, Diego F. Torres, Giacomo Principe, Alessandro Cuoco, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Matthew Wood, E. Orlando, L. Tibaldo, Jingcheng Li, James Chiang, Andrea Chiappo, Francesco Giordano, Nicola Giglietto, R. Desiante, Roger Blandford, M. Caragiulo, R. A. Cameron, P. Spinelli, R. Buehler, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Giacomo Vianello, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, M. N. Lovellette, J. Bregeon, P. A. Caraveo, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, Massimo Persic, Persis S. Drell, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, K. S. Wood, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, S. Rainò, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Elliott D. Bloom, Claudia Cecchi, Sylvain Guiriec, Andrea Albert, F. Spada, R. Caputo, F. Gargano, Hiroyasu Tajima, S. J. Fegan, Jan Conrad, Stefan Larsson, C. Favuzzi, G. La Mura, E. J. Siskind, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Gustafsson, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierrick Martin, J. D. Magill, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, Anna Franckowiak, Tsunefumi Mizuno, A. Reimer, E. Hays, Stephan Zimmer, G. Chiaro, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, D. Kocevski, T. Glanzman, F. Loparco, M. E. Monzani, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, S. Ciprini, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, J. F. Ormes, P. Fusco, Stefan Funk, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, D. Simone, David Paneque, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, L. Guillemot, E. Nuss, L. Di Venere, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. 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S., Kamae, T., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Martin, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Principe, G., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sanchez-Conde, M., Sgro, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Tanaka, K., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Vianello, G., Wood, K. 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
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18. 3FHL: The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

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

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

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

Author: E. Nuss, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, L. Di Venere, Roopesh Ojha, R. A. Cameron, P. Spinelli, Igor V. Moskalenko, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, R. Buehler, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, D. Simone, David Paneque, Vaidehi S. Paliya, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Elliott D. Bloom, K. Tanaka, L. Marcotulli, M. Caragiulo, T. Jogler, G. Barbiellini, Gudlaugur Johannesson, M. N. Mazziotta, W. B. Focke, Frederic Piron, M. Razzano, Roger W. Romani, Filippo D'Ammando, P. Bruel, E. Orlando, P. Fusco, G. La Mura, D. J. Thompson, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, J. F. Ormes, Dario Gasparrini, S. Rainò, E. Hays, Francesco Giordano, W. Mitthumsiri, Jan Conrad, Lukasz Stawarz, Diego F. Torres, Giacomo Principe, G. Tosti, F. Spada, Giacomo Vianello, Stefan Larsson, C. C. Cheung, Monica Orienti, Stefan Funk, S. J. Fegan, C. S. Stalin, C. Favuzzi, K. S. Wood, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Dieter H. Hartmann, Francesco Longo, Bindu Rani, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Jingcheng Li, Massimo Persic, M. Ackermann, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, A. Reimer, J. D. Magill, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, M. Takahashi, Sylvain Guiriec, M. E. Monzani, S. Maldera, D. Costantin, F. Costanza, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Denis Bastieri, Eleonora Torresi, G. Chiaro, F. de Palma, Yasushi Fukazawa, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Aaron Dominguez, Soebur Razzaque, S. Ciprini, James Chiang, Justin D. Finke, L. Latronico, L. Guillemot, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Roger Blandford, J. Becerra González, J. Ballet, Elisabetta Bissaldi, A. S. Johnson, F. Gargano, Sara Buson, T. A. Porter, E. J. Siskind, S. Cutini, F. Loparco, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Nicola Omodei, P. Lubrano, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, J. Bregeon, D. J. Suson, S. W. Digel, R. Desiante, Claudia Cecchi, Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier ( LUPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace ( LPC2E ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay ( USN ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Fermi-LAT, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Cheung, C. C., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Conrad, J., Costantin, D., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Domínguez, A., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Finke, J., Focke, W. B., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hartmann, D. H., Hays, E., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marcotulli, L., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Ojha, R., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Rani, B., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Romani, R. W., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stalin, C. S., Stawarz, L., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, M., Tanaka, K., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Torresi, E., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., ITA, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris
Subjects: Active galactic nucleus, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Radio galaxy, galaxies: active, galaxies: high-redshift, galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, quasars: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Population, jets [galaxies], Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Astrophysical jet, 0103 physical sciences, galaxie [gamma rays], Blazar, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, education.field_of_study, general [quasars], Astronomy, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Black hole, jet [galaxies], [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galaxies [gamma rays], active [galaxies], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], high-redshift [galaxies]
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 837(1), L5 (2017). doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa5fff, The detection of high-redshift ($z\,\gt 3$) blazars enables the study of the evolution of the most luminous relativistic jets over cosmic time. More importantly, high-redshift blazars tend to host massive black holes and can be used to constrain the space density of heavy black holes in the early universe. Here, we report the first detection with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope of five γ-ray-emitting blazars beyond z = 3.1, more distant than any blazars previously detected in γ-rays. Among these five objects, NVSS J151002+570243 is now the most distant known γ-ray-emitting blazar at z = 4.31. These objects have steeply falling γ-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs), and those that have been observed in X-rays have a very hard X-ray spectrum, both typical of powerful blazars. Their Compton dominance (ratio of the inverse Compton to synchrotron peak luminosities) is also very large ($\gt 20$). All of these properties place these objects among the most extreme members of the blazar population. Their optical spectra and the modeling of their optical-UV SEDs confirm that these objects harbor massive black holes (${M}_{\mathrm{BH}}\sim {10}^{8-10}\,{M}_{\odot }$). We find that, at $z\approx 4$, the space density of $\gt {10}^{9}\,{M}_{\odot }$ black holes hosted in radio-loud and radio-quiet active galactic nuclei are similar, implying that radio-loudness may play a key role in rapid black hole growth in the early universe., Published by Univ., Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2017
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22. Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from 1es 1440+122

Author: A. N. Otte, Geza Gyuk, E. Roache, M. P. Connolly, J. V. Tucci, Gernot Maier, S. P. Wakely, Abraham D. Falcone, Karlen Shahinyan, Wystan Benbow, N. Håkansson, Anna Barnacka, P. T. Reynolds, R. A. Ong, John L. Quinn, Ralph Bird, S. T. Griffiths, K. Sweeney, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, S. Federici, Martin Pohl, N. H. Park, J. Millis, J. Dumm, B. Zitzer, G. H. Sembroski, J. Grube, P. Kar, S. Godambe, Manel Errando, M. Kertzman, R. Welsing, M. J. Lang, L. C. Reyes, S. Kumar, K. Berger, Hugh Dickinson, D. S. Hanna, Xuhui Chen, Matteo Cerruti, Amy Furniss, Wei Cui, Henric Krawczynski, Y. Khassen, A. McCann, Q. Feng, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, David A. Williams, P. Kaaret, Lucy Fortson, D. Staszak, A. Popkow, Vladimir Vassiliev, H. Prokoph, Matthias Beilicke, J. S. Perkins, E. Pueschel, Markus Böttcher, J. Tyler, A. Wilhelm, A. Varlotta, A. Archer, J. V. Cardenzana, C. A. Johnson, E. Collins-Hughes, G. Hughes, David Kieda, Jodi Christiansen, J. D. Eisch, J. P. Finley, G. H. Gillanders, T. J. N. Nelson, S. McArthur, S. Griffin, K. Meagher, Jean-Francois Rajotte, S. Archambault, L. Ciupik, K. Ragan, V. Bugaev, H. Fleischhack, J. H. Buckley, A. W. Smith, A. S Madhavan, Gordon T. Richards, B. Behera, Daniel Nieto, and P. Moriarty
Subjects: extragalactic background light, multiwavelength observations, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, bl-lacertae objects, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, bright blazars, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, law.invention, Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, intergalactic magnetic-field, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, bl lacertae objects: general, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, tev blazars, Gamma ray, Astronomy, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, source catalog, gamma-rays: general, Redshift, large-area telescope, einstein slew survey, Crab Nebula, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, active galactic nuclei, ddc:520, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The BL Lacertae object 1ES 1440+122 was observed in the energy range from 85 GeV to 30 TeV by the VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The observations, taken between 2008 May and 2010 June and totalling 53 hours, resulted in the discovery of $\gamma$-ray emission from the blazar, which has a redshift $z$=0.163. 1ES 1440+122 is detected at a statistical significance of 5.5 standard deviations above the background with an integral flux of (2.8$\pm0.7_{\mathrm{stat}}\pm0.8_{\mathrm{sys}}$) $\times$ 10$^{-12}$ cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (1.2\% of the Crab Nebula's flux) above 200 GeV. The measured spectrum is described well by a power law from 0.2 TeV to 1.3 TeV with a photon index of 3.1 $\pm$ 0.4$_{\mathrm{stat}}$ $\pm$ 0.2$_{\mathrm{sys}}$. Quasi-simultaneous multi-wavelength data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (0.3--300 GeV) and the Swift X-ray Telescope (0.2--10 keV) are additionally used to model the properties of the emission region. A synchrotron self-Compton model produces a good representation of the multi-wavelength data. Adding an external-Compton or a hadronic component also adequately describes the data., Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Published: 2016
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23. A search for brief optical flashes associated with the seti target kic 8462852

Author: M. Buchovecky, Q. Feng, J. Grube, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, S. O'Brien, P. T. Reynolds, A. McCann, P. Fortin, Ralph Bird, Hugh Dickinson, Wystan Benbow, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, S. Archambault, Reshmi Mukherjee, A. Archer, D. Staszak, Martin Pohl, A. N. Otte, K. Meagher, S. McArthur, E. Pueschel, Maria Krause, O. M. Weiner, D. J. Fegan, Karen Byrum, J. D. Eisch, Abraham D. Falcone, Daniel Nieto, A. Weinstein, Karlen Shahinyan, S. Vincent, G. H. Gillanders, N. H. Park, D. S. Hanna, L. Ciupik, David A. Williams, N. Håkansson, Henrike Fleischhack, P. Kaaret, J. V. Cardenzana, J. V. Tucci, M. J. Lang, Moritz Hütten, Gernot Maier, John L. Quinn, N. Kelley-Hoskins, C. A. Johnson, K. Ragan, Geza Gyuk, Lucy Fortson, S. P. Wakely, R. A. Ong, David Kieda, F. Krennrich, Sinéad M. Griffin, J. Tyler, Matteo Cerruti, J. H. Buckley, Amy Furniss, Gordon T. Richards, E. Roache, P. Moriarty, J. P. Finley, G. Ratliff, Xuhui Chen, J. S. Perkins, Jodi Christiansen, T. B. Humensky, G. H. Sembroski, B. Zitzer, Manel Errando, S. Kumar, T. T.Y. Lin, A. Popkow, M. Kertzman, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, Wei Cui, A. Petrashyk, P. Kar, Marcos Santander, and ~
Subjects: stars, Photon, spectra, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astrobiology, FOS: Physical sciences, system, 01 natural sciences, oseti, extraterrestrial intelligence, law.invention, Telescope, Physics::Popular Physics, techniques: photometric, Observatory, law, veritas, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Pulse intensity, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Cherenkov radiation, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, bursts, Extraterrestrial intelligence, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, telescopes, stars: individual ( kic 8462852), Stars, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, methods: observational, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The astrophysical journal / 2 818(2), L33(2016). doi:10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/L33, The F-type star KIC 8462852 has recently been identified as an exceptional target for search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) observations. We describe an analysis methodology for optical SETI, which we have used to analyze nine hours of serendipitous archival observations of KIC 8462852 made with the VERITAS gamma-ray observatory between 2009 and 2015. No evidence of pulsed optical beacons, above a pulse intensity at the Earth of approximately $1\;\mathrm{photon}\;{{\rm{m}}}^{-2}$, is found. We also discuss the potential use of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays in searching for extremely short duration optical transients in general., Published by Institute of Physics Publ., London
Published: 2016
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24. 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
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25. Fermi large area telescope detection of extended gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Fornax A

Author: P. Lubrano, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, M. Caragiulo, G. Godfrey, K. S. Wood, Ronaldo Bellazzini, J. D. Magill, F. de Palma, Gudlaugur Johannesson, R. Bonino, Seth Digel, A. B. Hill, J. Schmid, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Roger Blandford, A. Reimer, Liang Li, M. N. Mazziotta, Igor V. Moskalenko, E. Orlando, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Guido Barbiellini, Olaf Reimer, S. Kensei, R. Buehler, S. Maldera, Matteo Negro, T. Jogler, A. Morselli, Eric Charles, T. J. Brandt, Dario Gasparrini, S. Rainò, Marco Ajello, Francesco Longo, Tsunefumi Mizuno, J. B. Thayer, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. Orienti, C. Favuzzi, W. McConville, G. Chiaro, F. Piron, F. Costanza, Masanori Ohno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Jean Ballet, S. Cutini, Diego F. Torres, J. W. Hewitt, C. C. Cheung, Markos Georganopoulos, F. Gargano, Stefano Ciprini, Stephan Zimmer, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, Jingcheng Li, Johan Bregeon, M. Di Mauro, Stefan Funk, Sara Buson, Julie McEnery, E. J. Siskind, S. J. Fegan, T. A. Porter, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Hays, D. Simone, E. Nuss, David Paneque, P. Fusco, M. E. Monzani, F. Loparco, M. Kuss, D. J. Thompson, Markus Ackermann, Luca Latronico, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Claudia Cecchi, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, I. A. Grenier, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, R. Desiante, Gloria Spandre, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, J. F. Ormes, A. Chekhtman, Warit Mitthumsiri, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, J. M. Cohen, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, F. Spada, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, Stefan Larsson, P. A. Caraveo, Denis Bastieri, Łukasz Stawarz, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, Alberto Manfreda, David S. Davis, Matthew Wood, 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), 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), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen, J. M., Cohen Tanugi, J., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Davis, D. S., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Georganopoulos, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Godfrey, G., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kensei, S., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcconville, W., Mcenery, J. E., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Schmid, J., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stawarz, Ł., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zimmer, S., Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen JM, Cohen-Tanugi J, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, Davis DS, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Focke WB, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Georganopoulos M, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Godfrey G, Green D, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Hays E, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Jogler T, Johnnesson G, Kensei S, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lubrano P, Magill JD, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McConville W, McEnery JE, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Schmid J, Sgro C, Simone D, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Stawarz L, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Wood KS, Wood M, Zimmer S, ITA, Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112))
Subjects: Radio galaxy, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, jets [galaxies], galaxies: individual, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, galaxies: individual (Fornax A), galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, individual: Fornax A [galaxies], law, 0103 physical sciences, galaxie [gamma rays], Brightest cluster galaxy, Interacting galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Dwarf galaxy, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, individual (Fornax A) [galaxies], Astronomy, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], galaxies: active – galaxies: individual (Fornax A) – galaxies: jets – gamma rays: galaxies – radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, jet [galaxies], active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 826(1), 1 (2016). doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/1, We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of extended γ-ray emission from the lobes of the radio galaxy Fornax A using 6.1 years of Pass 8 data. After Centaurus A, this is now the second example of an extended γ-ray source attributed to a radio galaxy. Both an extended flat disk morphology and a morphology following the extended radio lobes were preferred over a point-source description, and the core contribution was constrained to be $\lt 14$% of the total γ-ray flux. A preferred alignment of the γ-ray elongation with the radio lobes was demonstrated by rotating the radio lobes template. We found no significant evidence for variability on ~0.5 year timescales. Taken together, these results strongly suggest a lobe origin for the γ-rays. With the extended nature of the $\gt 100\;{\rm{MeV}}$ γ-ray emission established, we model the source broadband emission considering currently available total lobe radio and millimeter flux measurements, as well as X-ray detections attributed to inverse Compton (IC) emission off the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Unlike the Centaurus A case, we find that a leptonic model involving IC scattering of CMB and extragalactic background light (EBL) photons underpredicts the γ-ray fluxes by factors of about ~2–3, depending on the EBL model adopted. An additional γ-ray spectral component is thus required, and could be due to hadronic emission arising from proton–proton collisions of cosmic rays with thermal plasma within the radio lobes., Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2016
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26. 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
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27. 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. Orlando, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Costanza F, Cuoco A, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grove JE, Guiriec S, Harding AK, Hewitt JW, Horan D, Hou X, Iafrate G, Johannesson G, Kamae T, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Magill J, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Murgia S, Nuss E, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Pivato G, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reposeur T, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Winer BL, Wood KS, Yassine M, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen Tanugi, J., Costanza, F., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Venere, L., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Hou, X., Iafrate, G., Jóhannesson, G., Kamae, T., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., Yassine, M., Cerutti, F., Ferrari, A., Sala, P. R., Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, 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 ), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ITA
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
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28. 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. Caliandro, Stanford University [Stanford], Groupe de Recherche en Physique des Hautes Energies (GRPHE), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut Universitaire de Technologie de Colmar, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), University of California-University of California, Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research, AUTRES, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Institut Pasteur, Fondation Cenci Bolognetti - Istituto Pasteur Italia, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' [Rome], IHU-LIRYC, CHU Bordeaux [Bordeaux]-Université Bordeaux Segalen - Bordeaux 2, GLAST, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université 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), Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Torino, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari (INFN, sezione di Bari), National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes (ENSA Nantes), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-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)-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), 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, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), 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), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, DIEE, University of Cagliari, University of Gothenburg (GU), China Agricultural University (CAU), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), 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 de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL), Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), University of Botswana, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences, University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Université Sciences et Technologies - 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Subjects: 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
Abstract: 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
Published: 2016
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29. SBS 0846+513: a new γ-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy

Author: Marcello Giroletti, A. C. S. Readhead, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Justin D. Finke, M. Orienti, L. Stawarz, Emmanouil Angelakis, L. Fuhrmann, C. M. Raiteri, Filippo D'Ammando, J. L. Richards, J. S. Perkins, D. Donato, and Talvikki Hovatta
Subjects: Physics, Superluminal motion, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Luminosity, Black hole, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We report Fermi-LAT observations of the radio-loud AGN SBS 0846+513 (z=0.5835), optically classified as a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy, together with new and archival radio-to-X-ray data. The source was not active at gamma-ray energies during the first two years of Fermi operation. A significant increase in activity was observed during 2010 October-2011 August. In particular a strong gamma-ray flare was observed in 2011 June reaching an isotropic gamma-ray luminosity (0.1-300 GeV) of 1.0x10^48 erg/s, comparable to that of the brightest flat spectrum radio quasars, and showing spectral evolution in gamma rays. An apparent superluminal velocity of (8.2+/-1.5)c in the jet was inferred from 2011-2012 VLBA images, suggesting the presence of a highly relativistic jet. Both the power released by this object during the flaring activity and the apparent superluminal velocity are strong indications of the presence of a relativistic jet as powerful as those of blazars. In addition, variability and spectral properties in radio and gamma-ray bands indicate blazar-like behaviour, suggesting that, except for some distinct optical characteristics, SBS 0846+513 could be considered as a young blazar at the low end of the blazar's black hole mass distribution.
Published: 2012
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30. Gamma rays from the quasar PKS 1441+25: story of an escape

Author: Wystan Benbow, S. McArthur, O. M. Weiner, N. Håkansson, Henrike Fleischhack, M. J. Lang, P. Fortin, Ralph Bird, N. Kelley-Hoskins, L. Ciupik, R. Reeves, Geza Gyuk, Paul S. Smith, G. M. Madejski, Martin Pohl, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, J. Grube, Matthew J. Graham, R. A. Ong, A. McCann, K. Ragan, A. Petrashyk, K. Meagher, E. Pueschel, Marcos Santander, A. Wilhelm, Maria Krause, P. Kar, Benjamin J. Shappee, Talvikki Hovatta, S. G. Djorgovski, Paolo De Coppi, J. Tyler, M. P. Connolly, A. A. Mahabal, G. Ratliff, A. Archer, Xuhui Chen, J. H. Buckley, Lucy Fortson, Jodi Christiansen, S. Archambault, Q. Feng, P. Moriarty, Anthony C. S. Readhead, V. V. Vassiliev, A. Flinders, J. S. Perkins, Reshmi Mukherjee, Abraham D. Falcone, Hugh Dickinson, G. H. Gillanders, Karlen Shahinyan, David Kieda, Y. Khassen, T. B. Humensky, J. V. Tucci, Matteo Cerruti, N. W. Todd, Amy Furniss, G. H. Sembroski, D. S. Hanna, F. Krennrich, Daniel Nieto, A. Popkow, T. J. Pearson, Gernot Maier, J. L. Richards, Christopher S. Kochanek, T. Aune, Moritz Hütten, Wei Cui, John L. Quinn, B. Zitzer, P. Kaaret, J. V. Cardenzana, P. T. Reynolds, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Julien Rousselle, Manel Errando, S. Kumar, S. P. Wakely, C. A. Johnson, J. L. Prieto, Sinéad M. Griffin, Jonathan Biteau, Andrew J. Drake, J. P. Finley, J. P. Dumm, S. Vincent, A. W. Smith, J. D. Eisch, A. Weinstein, Gordon T. Richards, E. Roache, V. Bugaev, K. Z. Stanek, Nahee Park, Anushka Udara Abeysekara, Anna Barnacka, A. N. Otte, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, David A. Williams, D. Staszak, and ~
Subjects: extragalactic background light, Active galactic nucleus, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), spectra, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, telescope, Astrophysical jet, gamma rays: galaxies, emission, complete sample, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Supermassive black hole, variability, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Galaxy, diffuse radiation, radiation, Extragalactic background light, mission, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Schwarzschild radius, absorption, fermi blazars, quasars: individual (pks 1441+25-ver j1443+250), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The astrophysical journal / 2 815(2), L22 -(2015). doi:10.1088/2041-8205/815/2/L22, Outbursts from gamma-ray quasars provide insights on the relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei and constraints on the diffuse radiation fields that fill the universe. The detection of significant emission above 100 GeV from a distant quasar would show that some of the radiated gamma-rays escape pair-production interactions with low-energy photons, be it the extragalactic background light (EBL), or the radiation near the supermassive black hole lying at the jet's base. VERITAS detected gamma-ray emission up to ~200 GeV from PKS 1441+25 (z = 0.939) during 2015 April, a period of high activity across all wavelengths. This observation of PKS 1441+25 suggests that the emission region is located thousands of Schwarzschild radii away from the black hole. The gamma-ray detection also sets a stringent upper limit on the near-ultraviolet to near-infrared EBL intensity, suggesting that galaxy surveys have resolved most, if not all, of the sources of the EBL at these wavelengths., Published by Institute of Physics Publ., London
Published: 2015
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31. Results from the first two years of VERITAS observations

Author: F. Krennrich, Wystan Benbow, J. P. Finley, R. G. Wagner, M. McCutcheon, M. Schroedter, C. M. Hui, Simon P. Swordy, Gernot Maier, R. Guenette, M. Beilicke, D. S. Hanna, Lucy Fortson, K. Ragan, S. P. Wakely, Geza Gyuk, Daniel Gall, D. Boltuch, R. A. Ong, N. Karlsson, Amanda Weinstein, Stephanie Wissel, L. Ciupik, G. Finnegan, A. W. Smith, C. Duke, Thomas Brian Humensky, E. Roache, J. S. Perkins, P. Kaaret, A. Cesarini, John L. Quinn, S. M. Bradbury, Manuel A. Bautista, D. Pandel, Martin Pohl, G. H. Sembroski, T. Weisgarber, D. Steele, and H. J. Rose
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma ray, Astronomy, Cosmic ray, Supersymmetry, Astrophysics, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Particle detector, Astrophysical jet, Observatory, Instrumentation
Abstract: The VERITAS observatory is an imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array located in southern Arizona and covers an energy range between 100 GeV and 30 TeV. The VERITAS collaboration pursues a rigorous observing program that targets a range of key science objectives in astrophysics and particle physics; the understanding of the origin of cosmic rays, the search for supersymmetric dark matter self-annihilation, illuminating the connection between black holes and relativistic jets and constraints to the cosmological diffuse infrared background. We provide a summary of results from the first two years of observations with the full 4-telecope array reported at RICAP09.
Published: 2011
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32. OBSERVATIONS OF THE SHELL-TYPE SUPERNOVA REMNANT CASSIOPEIA A AT TeV ENERGIES WITH VERITAS

Author: R. G. Wagner, Gernot Maier, Stephanie Wissel, C. M. Hui, M. J. Lang, S. P. Wakely, T. B. Humensky, Daniel Gall, B. R. Smith, Geza Gyuk, Y. Butt, D. Boltuch, J. E. Ward, A. Cesarini, John L. Quinn, R. Dickherber, A. J.R. Weinstein, M. Bautista, S. Thibadeau, S. McArthur, V. A. Acciari, D. S. Hanna, David Kieda, J. P. Finley, R. A. Ong, Thomas Weisgarber, N. Karlsson, Jamie Holder, A. McCann, Martin Pohl, Wystan Benbow, T. C. Weekes, M. Beilicke, D. Steele, R. Guenette, V. Bugaev, S. LeBohec, F. Krennrich, E. Roache, P. Fortin, H. J. Rose, J. Grube, A. Furniss, S. P. Swordy, J. Millis, K. Byrum, Matthew J.A. Wood, Tulun Ergin, P. Moriarty, Nicola Galante, J. S. Perkins, M. Kertzman, S. J. Fegan, S. Vincent, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, P. T. Reynolds, Lucy Fortson, A. Varlotta, Wei Cui, D. Huang, M. Theiling, P. Cogan, T. Aune, Y. C. Chow, V. V. Vassiliev, P. Kaaret, G. Finnegan, A. W. Smith, C. Duke, J. H. Buckley, A. Konopelko, G. H. Gillanders, T. Arlen, L. Ciupik, E. Aliu, H. Krawczynski, K. Ragan, S. M. Bradbury, A. Cannon, D. Pandel, and M. McCutcheon
Subjects: Photon, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, cosmic-rays, Shell (structure), Flux, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, air cerenkov telescopes, crab-nebula, Supernova remnant, ism: individual objects (cassiopeia a), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, acceleration of particles, Physics, magnetic-fields, electron acceleration, particle-acceleration, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, gamma-ray emission, Cassiopeia A, gamma rays: ism, rx j1713.7-3946, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, ism: supernova remnants, a supernova, magic telescope
Abstract: We report on observations of very high energy gamma rays from the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) Cassiopeia A with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System stereoscopic array of four imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in Arizona. The total exposure time for these observations is 22 hr, accumulated between September and November of 2007. The gamma-ray source associated with the SNR Cassiopeia A was detected above 200 GeV with a statistical significance of 8.3 sigma. The estimated integral flux for this gamma-ray source is about 3% of the Crab-Nebula flux. The photon spectrum is compatible with a power law dN/dE proportional to E(-Gamma) with an index Gamma = 2.61 +/- 0.24(stat) +/- 0.2(sys). The data are consistent with a point-like source. We provide a detailed description of the analysis results and discuss physical mechanisms that may be responsible for the observed gamma-ray emission.
Published: 2010
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33. OBSERVATION OF EXTENDED VERY HIGH ENERGY EMISSION FROM THE SUPERNOVA REMNANT IC 443 WITH VERITAS

Author: R. A. Ong, Thomas Weisgarber, S. LeBohec, S. M. Bradbury, A. Cannon, D. Pandel, D. Horan, P. Cogan, J. Grube, David Kieda, L. Ciupik, P. T. Reynolds, A. McCann, Lucy Fortson, M. Kertzman, M. K. Daniel, E. Aliu, H. Krawczynski, A. Varlotta, Gernot Maier, S. P. Swordy, V. V. Vassiliev, Martin Pohl, S. P. Wakely, Daniel Gall, K. Ragan, M. Wood, M. Beilicke, G. Finnegan, T. B. Humensky, A. W. Smith, B. Zitzer, A. Konopelko, R. G. Wagner, C. Duke, M. Schroedter, L. Valcarcel, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, P. Moriarty, Geza Gyuk, A. Weinstein, T. Arlen, P. Colin, A. N. Otte, A. Furniss, J. H. Buckley, P. Kaaret, Tulun Ergin, F. Krennrich, P. Fortin, S. Vincent, D. S. Hanna, Wystan Benbow, M. Theiling, C. M. Hui, Y. Butt, J. P. Finley, V. Bugaev, G. H. Sembroski, J. A. Toner, T. C. Weekes, R. Dickherber, A. Imran, E. Hays, J. S. Perkins, John Kildea, D. A. Williams, R. Guenette, J. Millis, O. Celik, K. Byrum, Wei Cui, Stephanie Wissel, T. Aune, Y. C. K. Chow, S. J. Fegan, D. Steele, V. A. Acciari, M. J. Lang, H. J. Rose, N. Karlsson, A. Cesarini, John L. Quinn, M. Bautista, K. G. Gibbs, Jamie Holder, L. C. Reyes, E. Roache, J. E. Ward, G. H. Gillanders, S. Godambe, M. McCutcheon, and OpenMETU
Subjects: Physics, nebula, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, ic-443, Molecular cloud, cosmic-rays, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), xmm-newton observations, molecular clouds, Astrophysics, gamma-ray emission, 01 natural sciences, Pulsar wind nebula, ism: individual (ic 443=ver j0616.9+2230, = magic j0616+225), radiation, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Supernova remnant, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, gamma rays: observations, magic telescope, discovery, pulsar
Abstract: We present evidence that the very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission coincident with the supernova remnant IC 443 is extended. IC 443 contains one of the best studied sites of supernova remnant/molecular cloud interaction and the pulsar wind nebula CXOU J061705.3+222127, both of which are important targets for VHE observations. VERITAS observed IC 443 for 37.9 hr during 2007 and detected emission above 300 GeV with an excess of 247 events, resulting in a significance of 8.3 standard deviations (sigma) before trials and 7.5 sigma after trials in a point-source search. The emission is centered at 6(h)16(m)51(s)+22 degrees 30'11 '' (J2000)+/- 0 degrees.03(stat)+/- 0 degrees.08(sys), with an intrinsic extension of 0 degrees.16 +/- 0 degrees.03(stat)+/- 0 degrees.04(sys). The VHE spectrum is well fit by a power law (dN/dE = N(0) x(E/TeV)(-Gamma)) with a photon index of 2.99 +/- 0.38(stat)+/- 0.3(sys) and an integral flux above 300 GeV of (4.63 +/- 0.90(stat)+/- 0.93(sys)) x 10(-12) cm(-2) s(-1). These results are discussed in the context of existing models for gamma-ray production in IC 443.
Published: 2009
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34. EVIDENCE FOR LONG-TERM GAMMA-RAY AND X-RAY VARIABILITY FROM THE UNIDENTIFIED TeV SOURCE HESS J0632+057

Author: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, T. Arlen, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, D. Boltuch, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, K. Byrum, A. Cannon, A. Cesarini, Y. C. Chow, L. Ciupik, P. Cogan, R. Dickherber, C. Duke, T. Ergin, A. Falcone, S. J. Fegan, J. P. Finley, G. Finnegan, P. Fortin, L. Fortson, A. Furniss, K. Gibbs, G. H. Gillanders, J. Grube, R. Guenette, G. Gyuk, D. Hanna, J. Holder, D. Horan, C. M. Hui, T. B. Humensky, A. Imran, P. Kaaret, N. Karlsson, M. Kertzman, D. Kieda, J. Kildea, A. Konopelko, H. Krawczynski, F. Krennrich, M. J. Lang, S. LeBohec, G. Maier, A. McCann, M. McCutcheon, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, R. Mukherjee, R. A. Ong, A. N. Otte, D. Pandel, J. S. Perkins, D. Petry, M. Pohl, J. Quinn, K. Ragan, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, H. J. Rose, M. Schroedter, G. H. Sembroski, A. W. Smith, D. Steele, S. Swordy, M. Theiling, J. A. Toner, A. Varlotta, V. V. Vassiliev, S. Vincent, R. G. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, J. E. Ward, T. C. Weekes, A. Weinstein, T. Weisgarber, D. A. Williams, S. Wissel, and M. Wood
Subjects: stars, catalog, Be star, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, binary, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, telescope, 01 natural sciences, emission, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particles, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, stars: individual (hess j0632+057, mwc 148), Gamma ray, X-ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Crab Nebula, binaries: general, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma rays: observations, discovery
Abstract: HESS J0632+057 is one of only two unidentified very-high-energy gamma-ray sources which appear to be point-like within experimental resolution. It is possibly associated with the massive Be star MWC 148 and has been suggested to resemble known TeV binary systems like LS I +61 303 or LS 5039. HESS J0632+057 was observed by VERITAS for 31 hours in 2006, 2008 and 2009. During these observations, no significant signal in gamma rays with energies above 1 TeV was detected from the direction of HESS J0632+057. A flux upper limit corresponding to 1.1% of the flux of the Crab Nebula has been derived from the VERITAS data. The non-detection by VERITAS excludes with a probability of 99.993% that HESS J0632+057 is a steady gamma-ray emitter. Contemporaneous X-ray observations with Swift XRT reveal a factor of 1.8+-0.4 higher flux in the 1-10 keV range than earlier X-ray observations of HESS J0632+057. The variability in the gamma-ray and X-ray fluxes supports interpretation of the ob ject as a gamma-ray emitting binary., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2009
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35. First results from VERITAS

Author: M. K. Daniel, F. Krennrich, A. Syson, L. Ciupik, S. P. Wakely, Abraham D. Falcone, F. Pizlo, G. H. Sembroski, Daniel Gall, R. A. Ong, H. Manseri, A. McCann, B. Zitzer, D. J. Fegan, S. J. Fegan, D. Steele, J. E. Ward, S. LeBohec, A. Cesarini, J. Hall, Y. C. K. Chow, S. M. Bradbury, Simon P. Swordy, M. Kertzman, John L. Quinn, D. Pandel, Martin Pohl, Henric Krawczynski, K. G. Gibbs, O. Celik, R. J. White, John Toner, J. S. Perkins, Yousaf M. Butt, V. V. Vassiliev, Pierre Colin, V. Bugaev, V. A. Acciari, S. B. Hughes, G. Blaylock, R. Guenette, G. H. Gillanders, Jacek Niemiec, H. M. Badran, R. G. Wagner, P. T. Reynolds, T. Nagai, P. A. Ogden, E. Hays, R. Amini, Geza Gyuk, O. J. Glidewell, D. Horan, Paul Dowkontt, Tulun Ergin, Reshmi Mukherjee, J. Millis, P. Moriarty, P. Fortin, H. J. Rose, Wei Cui, C. M. Hui, A. Konopelko, K. Lee, D. S. Hanna, L. Valcarcel, Lucy Fortson, Matthew Wood, C. Dowdall, M. McCutcheon, A. Imran, John Kildea, J. H. Buckley, M. J. Lang, J. P. Finley, C. Duke, A. W. Smith, E. Roache, T. C. Weekes, Stephanie Wissel, Amanda Weinstein, P. Cogan, Thomas Brian Humensky, K. Ragan, Karen Byrum, M. Schroedter, David Kieda, David A. Williams, J. Grube, Jamie Holder, G. E. Kenny, and P. Kaaret
Subjects: Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Active galactic nucleus, Sky, media_common.quotation_subject, Astronomy, Gamma-ray astronomy, Astrophysics, Blazar, Instrumentation, Galaxy, Cherenkov radiation, media_common
Abstract: VERITAS is an array of four, 12-m-diameter, Cherenkov telescopes, designed to explore the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky in the energy band between 100 GeV and 50 TeV. Its construction and commissioning have occurred over the past two years and the array has been taking scientific data with three or more telescopes since November 2006. We present results from observations made with VERITAS during the past observing season, including new results on the distant blazar 1ES 1218 + 304 , the active galaxy M87 and the high-mass X-ray binary system LS I + 61 303. We also describe the plans in place for the coming observing seasons.
Published: 2008
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36. The Whipple Observatory 10m gamma-ray telescope, 1997–2006

Author: G. E. Kenny, O. Celik, M. J. Lang, P. Moriarty, D. Petry, G. H. Gillanders, A. Konopelko, J. P. Finley, John Kildea, D. A. Carter-Lewis, F. Krennrich, T. C. Weekes, A. Syson, J. Millis, Y. C. K. Chow, J. Lloyd-Evans, I. D. Perez, I. Jung, M. K. Daniel, C. Duke, D. J. Fegan, H. J. Rose, R. J. White, S. P. Wakely, Daniel Gall, S. B. Hughes, J. S. Perkins, M. Jordan, A. W. Smith, J. Grube, Jamie Holder, J. H. Buckley, M. Schroedter, C. Dowdall, K. Gutierrez, John Toner, P. Cogan, S. M. Bradbury, G. H. Sembroski, R. W. Atkins, J. Knapp, P. A. Ogden, I. H. Bond, Henric Krawczynski, Lucy Fortson, R. A. Ong, D. Horan, S. LeBohec, J. Hall, T. Nagai, P. Rebillot, Martin Pohl, K. Kosack, Mark N. Quinn, Wei Cui, L. Valcarcel, M. Kertzman, G. Blaylock, H. M. Badran, V. V. Vassiliev, Tony Hall, Abraham D. Falcone, F. Pizlo, S. J. Fegan, and John L. Quinn
Subjects: Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Context (language use), Gamma-ray astronomy, Cherenkov Telescope Array, law.invention, Primary mirror, Telescope, Observatory, law, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Details are presented of the Whipple Observatory’s 10 m atmospheric Cherenkov telescope and camera, as it evolved during the period 1997 until 2006. The design of the telescope and camera’s optical and electronic systems is discussed together with a detailed description of the four-stage GRANITE (Gamma-RAy New Imaging TElescope) upgrade program, undertaken during the same time period. The objective of the upgrade was to improve the telescope’s sensitivity for the detection of very-high-energy gamma-rays. Results from the program are provided and are briefly discussed in the context of the design of VERITAS.
Published: 2007
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37. Status report from VERITAS

Author: Jamie Holder, I. Jung, M. J. Lang, Gernot Maier, S. P. Wakely, R. G. Wagner, D. A. Carter-Lewis, D. Steele, J. S. Perkins, P. Cogan, M. K. Daniel, Henric Krawczynski, David Kieda, E. Hays, John Kildea, Tulun Ergin, G. H. Gillanders, P. Kaaret, K G Gutierrez, A. J.R. Weinstein, Wei Cui, P Fortin, D. Horan, L. Valcarcel, G. E. Kenny, Thomas Brian Humensky, S. P. Swordy, C. Dowdall, David A. Williams, A. D. Falcone, S. J. Fegan, Karen Byrum, Stephanie Wissel, M. Schroedter, Lucy Fortson, S. M. Bradbury, V. V. Vassiliev, F. Pizlo, A. Konopelko, D. S. Hanna, A. Imran, John L. Quinn, G. H. Sembroski, K. G. Gibbs, H. J. Rose, J. H. Buckley, F. Krennrich, S. B. Hughes, Omer Celik, J. A. Toner, G. Blaylock, T. C. Weekes, T. Nagai, P. Moriarty, R. J. White, J. Grube, A. W. Smith, C. Duke, R. A. Ong, S. LeBohec, and J. Millis
Subjects: Physics, History, Observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics, Status report, Computer Science Applications, Education
Abstract: VERITAS is a ground-based gamma-ray observatory covering energies between 100 GeV and 50 TeV and will start operating by January 2007. We give a brief report of the construction status and performance characteristics of the telescopes.
Published: 2007
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38. Erratum: VERITAS deep observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Segue 1 [Phys. Rev. D85, 062001 (2012)]

Author: M. P. Connolly, D. Staszak, K. Ragan, R. Dickherber, S. Thibadeau, L. Ciupik, A. Varlotta, H. J. Rose, D. S. Hanna, T. C. Arlen, P. Kaaret, D. B. Saxon, E. Collins-Hughes, G. H. Sembroski, G. Hughes, Matthias Beilicke, A. McCann, A. Cesarini, M. Vivier, John L. Quinn, Francesc Ferrer, S. Archambault, Reshmi Mukherjee, K. Tsurusaki, Gernot Maier, Nahee Park, S. P. Wakely, C. Skole, A. Bouvier, Geza Gyuk, J. E. Ward, R. A. Ong, Thomas Weisgarber, Daniel Gall, E. Aliu, Matthew R. Orr, David Kieda, K. L. Byrum, Jodi Christiansen, J. S. Perkins, S. M. Bradbury, G. Tešić, David A. Williams, Lucy Fortson, A. Cannon, Pratik Majumdar, V. V. Vassiliev, T. Aune, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, S. Godambe, J. P. Dumm, J. Ruppel, Q. Feng, L. C. Reyes, Henric Krawczynski, Amy Furniss, A. J.R. Weinstein, T. B. Humensky, M. Schroedter, Wei Cui, S. McArthur, V. Bugaev, Wystan Benbow, F. Krennrich, G. Finnegan, A. W. Smith, M. Theiling, A. S Madhavan, A. D. Falcone, E. Roache, G. D. Şentürk, H. Huan, J. H. Buckley, P. Moriarty, Nicola Galante, J. Grube, R. G. Wagner, N. Karlsson, Sinéad M. Griffin, Y. Khassen, G. Decerprit, S. Vincent, M. Kertzman, A. N. Otte, P. T. Reynolds, B. Zitzer, Manel Errando, J. P. Finley, T. C. Weekes, M. Pohl, K. Lee, and H. Prokoph
Subjects: Physics, Gravitation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Dark matter, Gamma ray, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Segue, Cosmology, Dwarf galaxy, Dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Published: 2015
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39. SEARCH for EXTENDED GAMMA-RAY EMISSION from the VIRGO GALAXY CLUSTER with FERMI-LAT

Author: R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Hiromitsu Takahashi, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Johan Bregeon, F. Spada, R. Caputo, D. Horan, M. Orienti, A. Morselli, Stefan Larsson, D. Malyshev, Dario Gasparrini, E. Orlando, Andrea Albert, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Stefano Ciprini, J. M. Casandjian, Marco Ajello, Francesco Longo, Tesla E. Jeltema, J. B. Thayer, M. N. Mazziotta, L. Di Venere, E. Troja, Seth Digel, Igor V. Moskalenko, Hiroyasu Tajima, Olaf Reimer, Liang Li, Jan Conrad, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, S. Buson, R. Bonino, F. Loparco, Guido Barbiellini, M. Gustafsson, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, S. Murgia, F. Gargano, Luca Latronico, G. A. Caliandro, A. Franckowiak, I. A. Grenier, M. Caragiulo, S. Maldera, Claudia Cecchi, Ronaldo Bellazzini, S. Rainò, Diego F. Torres, C. Favuzzi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Eric Charles, J. F. Ormes, E. Cavazzuti, J. Li, K. S. Wood, R. A. Cameron, G. Chiaro, Stefan Funk, T. Ohsugi, Gloria Spandre, Yasushi Fukazawa, T. J. Brandt, A. S. Johnson, S. Cutini, P. Fusco, R. Desiante, Gabrijela Zaharijas, A. De Angelis, John W. Hewitt, G. Tosti, E. J. Siskind, G. Godfrey, T. Jogler, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Matthew Wood, P. Bruel, Giacomo Vianello, Markus Ackermann, F. de Palma, A. B. Hill, Vahé Petrosian, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, A. Reimer, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, T. Glanzman, Denis Bastieri, T. A. Porter, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Keith Bechtol, André Schulz, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Stephan Zimmer, M. E. Monzani, Emma Storm, S. J. Fegan, F. Piron, 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), 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, 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), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-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), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, De Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Gomez-Vargas GA, Grenier A, Guiriec S, Gustafsson M, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Jeltema TE, Jogler T, Johnson AS, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Orienti M, 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, Reimer A, Reimer O, Sanchez-Conde M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Storm E, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Wood KS, Wood M, Zaharijas G, Zimmer S, Pinzke A, ITA, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., 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., Casandjian, J. M., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Angelis, A. De, Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Venere, L. Di, Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Gomez Vargas, G. A., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jeltema, T. E., Jogler, T., Johnson, A. S., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainó, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sánchez Conde, M., Schulz, A., Sgró, C., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Storm, E., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., and Zimmer, S.
Subjects: galaxies: clusters: individual, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, gamma-rays: galaxies: cluster, background: model, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: interaction, GLAST, cross section: annihilation, emission: model, Galactic halo, pressure, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), galaxy: halo, dark matter: halo, galaxies: cluster [gamma-rays], gamma-rays: galaxies: clusters, gamma-rays: general, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, dark matter: angular distribution, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Annihilation, clusters: individual (Virgo) [galaxies], flux: enhancement, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, dark matter: annihilation, star: model, Dark matter halo, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, VIRGO, gamma ray: emission, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, galaxy: cluster, Halo, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma-rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross sections for DM annihilation channels, these signals might be detectable by the latest generation of $\gamma$-ray telescopes. Here we use three years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data, which are the most suitable for searching for very extended emission in the vicinity of nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. Our analysis reveals statistically significant extended emission which can be well characterized by a uniformly emitting disk profile with a radius of 3\deg that moreover is offset from the cluster center. We demonstrate that the significance of this extended emission strongly depends on the adopted interstellar emission model (IEM) and is most likely an artifact of our incomplete description of the IEM in this region. We also search for and find new point source candidates in the region. We then derive conservative upper limits on the velocity-averaged DM pair annihilation cross section from Virgo. We take into account the potential $\gamma$-ray flux enhancement due to DM sub-halos and its complex morphology as a merging cluster. For DM annihilating into $b\overline{b}$, assuming a conservative sub-halo model setup, we find limits that are between 1 and 1.5 orders of magnitude above the expectation from the thermal cross section for $m_{\mathrm{DM}}\lesssim100\,\mathrm{GeV}$. In a more optimistic scenario, we exclude $\langle \sigma v \rangle\sim3\times10^{-26}\,\mathrm{cm^{3}\,s^{-1}}$ for $m_{\mathrm{DM}}\lesssim40\,\mathrm{GeV}$ for the same channel. Finally, we derive upper limits on the $\gamma$-ray-flux produced by hadronic cosmic-ray interactions in the inter cluster medium. We find that the volume-averaged cosmic-ray-to-thermal pressure ratio is less than $\sim6\%$., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ; corresponding authors: T. Jogler, S. Zimmer & A. Pinzke
Published: 2015
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40. The most powerful flaring activity from the NLSy1 PMN J0948+0022

Author: V. Bugaev, D. Staszak, J. P. Finley, Daniel Nieto, K. Ragan, T. B. Humensky, Josefin Larsson, Reshmi Mukherjee, K. Meagher, Talvikki Hovatta, G. H. Sembroski, L. Ciupik, P. Fortin, Abraham D. Falcone, J. V. Tucci, Gernot Maier, B. Zitzer, Ralph Bird, J. Tyler, Wystan Benbow, J. Grube, Manel Errando, S. Kumar, R. A. Ong, C. M. Raiteri, S. P. Wakely, S. T. Griffiths, Filippo D'Ammando, J. D. Eisch, K. Berger, Julien Rousselle, Hugh Dickinson, A. Weinstein, M. J. Lang, P. Kar, David A. Williams, John L. Quinn, N. Håkansson, Henrike Fleischhack, A. Varlotta, A. N. Otte, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, A. W. Smith, A. McCann, A. Popkow, Geza Gyuk, I. Telezhinsky, G. H. Gillanders, Gordon T. Richards, E. Roache, Jamie Holder, F. Krennrich, Marcos Santander, Matteo Cerruti, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Anthony C. S. Readhead, H. Prokoph, J. S. Perkins, David Kieda, J. V. Cardenzana, M. Pohl, Amy Furniss, L. Gérard, P. Moriarty, Matthias Beilicke, Lucy Fortson, M. Kertzman, J. L. Richards, Xuhui Chen, Y. Khassen, Vladimir Vassiliev, M. Orienti, E. Pueschel, P. T. Reynolds, Justin D. Finke, R. Welsing, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, D'Ammando, F., Orienti, M., Finke, J., Raiteri, C. M., Hovatta, T., Larsson, J., Max-Moerbeck, W., Perkins, J., Readhead, A. C. S., Richards, J. L., Beilicke, M., Benbow, W., Berger, K., Bird, R., Bugaev, V., Cardenzana, J. V., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Dickinson, H. J., Eisch, J. D., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Finley, J. P., Fleischhack, H., Fortin, P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Gerard, L., Gillanders, G. H., Griffiths, S. T., Grube, J., Gyuk, G., Håkansson, N., Holder, J., Humensky, T. B., Kar, P., Kertzman, M., Khassen, Y., Kieda, D., Krennrich, F., Kumar, S., Lang, M. J., Maier, G., Mccann, A., Meagher, K., Moriarty, P., Mukherjee, R., Nieto, D., de Bhróithe, A. O'Faoláin, Ong, R. A., Otte, A. N., Pohl, M., Popkow, A., Prokoph, H., Pueschel, E., Quinn, J., Ragan, K., Reynolds, P. T., Richards, G. T., Roache, E., Rousselle, J., Santander, M., Sembroski, G. H., Smith, A. W., Staszak, D., Telezhinsky, I., Tucci, J. V., Tyler, J., Varlotta, A., Vassiliev, V. V., Wakely, S. P., Weinstein, A., Welsing, R., Williams, D. A., and Zitzer, B.
Subjects: extragalactic background light, multiwavelength observations, Active galactic nucleus, spectrum radio quasars, individual: PMN J0948+0022 [galaxies], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, nuclei [galaxies], FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: active, galaxies: individual: PMN J0948+0022, galaxies: nuclei, galaxies: Seyfert, gamma-rays: general, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, galaxies: active-galaxies: individual: pmn j0948+0022, line seyfert 1, Luminosity, law.invention, Telescope, law, Seyfert [galaxies], quasar pks 1510-089, relativistic jets, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, galactic nuclei, ta115, ta213, galaxies: individual: PMN J0948+0022, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, gamma-rays: general, gamma-ray emission, galaxies: Seyfert, large-area telescope, x-ray, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, active [galaxies], ddc:520, Spectral energy distribution, galaxies: nuclei, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Radio astronomy, Flare, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, general [gamma-rays]
Abstract: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 446(3), 2456 - 2467 (2015). doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2251, We report on multifrequency observations performed during 2012 December–2013 August of the first narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy detected in $\gamma$-rays, PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846). A γ-ray flare was observed by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi during 2012 December–2013 January, reaching a daily peak flux in the 0.1–100 GeV energy range of (155 $\pm$ 31) × $10^{−8}$ ph $cm^{−2} s^{−1}$ on 2013 January 1, corresponding to an apparent isotropic luminosity of $\sim$ 1.5 × $10^{48}$ erg $s^{−1}$. The $\gamma$-ray flaring period triggered Swift and Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) observations in addition to radio and optical monitoring by Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Monitoring Of Jets in Active galactic nuclei with VLBA Experiments, and Catalina Real-time Transient Survey. A strong flare was observed in optical, UV, and X-rays on 2012 December 30, quasi-simultaneously to the $\gamma$-ray flare, reaching a record flux for this source from optical to $\gamma$-rays. VERITAS observations at very high energy (E > 100 GeV) during 2013 January 6–17 resulted in an upper limit of $F_{>0.2 TeV}$ < 4.0 × $10^{−12} ph cm^{−2} s^{−1}$. We compared the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the flaring state in 2013 January with that of an intermediate state observed in 2011. The two SEDs, modelled as synchrotron emission and an external Compton scattering of seed photons from a dust torus, can be modelled by changing both the electron distribution parameters and the magnetic field., Published by Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford
Published: 2015
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41. Unprecedented study of the broadband emission of Mrk 421 during flaring activity in March 2010

Author: E. Pueschel, J. Hose, Svetlana G. Jorstad, M. F. Aller, David A. Williams, G. H. Sembroski, D. Nakajima, M. Strzys, R. Welsing, A. Archer, E. Colombo, B. Biasuzzi, F. Borracci, Stefano Ansoldi, Riccardo Paoletti, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, D. Elsaesser, D. Staszak, Dario Hrupec, L. Ciupik, L. C. Reyes, G. Bonnoli, K. Ragan, M. A. Lopez, N. Galante, Hajime Takami, J. M. Paredes, P. T. Reynolds, Natalia Lewandowska, Hugh D. Aller, L. O. Takalo, G. H. Gillanders, T. Schweizer, Mosè Mariotti, Wystan Benbow, A.-K. Overkemping, D. Hadasch, Victor Stamatescu, J. Biteau, Paul S. Smith, Gordon T. Richards, Wei Cui, A. La Barbera, Sinéad M. Griffin, E. Roache, A. López-Oramas, S. Rügamer, Juan Abel Barrio, J. A. Ros, O. M. Kurtanidze, Alessandro Carosi, Ruben Lopez-Coto, X. Paredes-Fortuny, Mark Gurwell, U. Menzel, Saverio Lombardi, Calvin A. Johnson, P. Kar, M. Villata, K. Mallot, R. J. García López, Felix Spanier, M. Kertzman, A. C. S. Readhead, E. Prandini, D. Galindo, Merja Tornikoski, Yusuke Konno, Diego F. Torres, M. G. Nikolashvili, D. Eisenacher, Antonio Stamerra, K. Kodani, Givi N. Kimeridze, Julian Sitarek, Lorand A. Sigua, K. Nishijima, J. V. Tucci, A. Cesarini, M. Perri, P. Kaaret, J. Storz, D. Dominis Prester, Martin Pohl, C. M. Raiteri, Markus Garczarczyk, C. Fruck, A. Sillanpää, N. Håkansson, M. Makariev, T. Toyama, L. Maraschi, A. Pichel, Jose Miguel Miranda, Matteo Cerruti, Konstancja Satalecka, J. Becerra González, P. Antoranz, Amy Furniss, S. P. Wakely, B. Jordan, Elena G. Larionova, Xuhui Chen, H. C. Lin, Geza Gyuk, Louis Antonelli, Michele Doro, Abelardo Moralejo, Jelena Aleksić, S. McArthur, M. L. Knoetig, P. G. Prada Moroni, P. Munar-Adrover, Ivica Puljak, E. Collins-Hughes, K. Meagher, Nikola Godinovic, Benito Marcote, T. Steinbring, W. Idec, M. V. Fonseca, Pierre Colin, P. Temnikov, M. Hayashida, Patrick Vogler, J. Tyler, A. Niedzwiecki, C. Schultz, V. Scapin, J. H. Buckley, P. Moriarty, Tomislav Terzić, K. Berger, T. Sakamoto, C. Delgado Mendez, S. R. Gozzini, B. McBreen, O. Tibolla, Shan Sun, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Ivan S. Troitsky, David Paneque, I. Snidaric, Marc Ribó, P. Da Vela, D. Hildebrand, B. Steinke, Steven N. Shore, Q. Feng, K. Frantzen, Massimo Persic, Hidetoshi Kubo, A. Boller, D. A. Morozova, A. Wilhelm, R. Reinthal, Thomas Bretz, Sofia O. Kurtanidze, Kari Nilsson, Elina Lindfors, Justin D. Finke, J. Krause, B. De Lotto, Walter Max-Moerbeck, K. Saito, Razmik Mirzoyan, U. Barres de Almeida, A. González Muñoz, V. Kadenius, Damir Lelas, N. Mankuzhiyil, J. P. Finley, J. S. Perkins, Wen Ping Chen, S. Paiano, E. Lorenz, Karl Mannheim, H. Prokoph, Hanna Kellermann, Daniel Mazin, I. Lozano, Dorota Sobczyńska, J. D. Eisch, Wolfgang Rhode, Daniela Dorner, M. Palatiello, Joseph Moody, Lucy Fortson, M. I. Martínez, M. Gaug, P. Bangale, G. De Caneva, J. Herrera, Matthias Beilicke, Koji Noda, J. Millis, Abraham D. Falcone, Francesco Dazzi, Karlen Shahinyan, Elisa Bernardini, S. Bonnefoy, Sabrina Einecke, J. Rodriguez Garcia, W. Bednarek, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Ll. Font, A. C. Sadun, Anne Lähteenmäki, Stefano Covino, M. J. Lang, A. Varlotta, Masahiro Teshima, A. McCann, Ekaterina Koptelova, A. C. Rovero, J. Kushida, D. Tescaro, Jose Luis Contreras, G. Hughes, M. Uellenbeck, Takashi Saito, Y. Hanabata, A. Popkow, Juan Cortina, V. Bugaev, David Kieda, Reiko Orito, S. Buson, J. L. Richards, Ann E. Wehrle, D. Garrido Terrats, P. Fortin, Oscar Blanch, Ralph Bird, S. Archambault, Valeri M. Larionov, V. Scalzotto, Ana Babić, Julia Thaele, E. Carmona, A. De Angelis, A. Treves, R. A. Ong, G. Maneva, R. Zanin, A. N. Otte, Adrian Biland, J. Rico, Alan P. Marscher, Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Radio Science and Engineering, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University, and ~
Subjects: extragalactic background light, Ciencias Físicas, spectral energy-distribution, Flux, Non-thermal / galaxies, Astrophysics, law.invention, Relativistic particle, purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https], atmospheric cherenkov telescopes, Raigs gamma, bl lacertae objects, law, MAGIC (telescope), Active / BL Lacertae objects, astro-ph.HE, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, individual: Mrk 421 [BL Lacertae objects], education.field_of_study, gamma-ray outburst, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], BL Lacertae objects: individual: Mrk 421, Galaxies: active, Gamma rays: galaxies, Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Particle acceleration, NON THERMAL RADIATION, large-area telescope, active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], BL LACERTAE OBJECTS, Electrónica, self-compton model, Electricidad, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS, Flare, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Radio telescope, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, gamma rays: galaxies, Radiation mechanisms, BL Lacertae objects: individual, simultaneous multiwavelength observations, AGN, education, Blazar, Individual: Mrk 421 / gamma rays, tev blazars, Gamma rays, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 [https], Galaxies, Astronomía, x-ray, Galàxies actives, Active galaxies, ddc:520
Abstract: A flare from the TeV blazar Mrk 421, occurring in March 2010, was observed for 13 consecutive days from radio to very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays with MAGIC, VERITAS, Whipple, FermiLAT, MAXI, RXTE, Swift, GASP-WEBT, and several optical and radio telescopes. We model the day-scale SEDs with one-zone and two-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) models, investigate the physical parameters, and evaluate whether the observed broadband SED variability can be associated to variations in the relativistic particle population. Flux variability was remarkable in the X-ray and VHE bands while it was minor or not significant in the other bands. The one-zone SSC model can describe reasonably well the SED of each day for the 13 consecutive days. This flaring activity is also very well described by a two-zone SSC model, where one zone is responsible for the quiescent emission while the other smaller zone, which is spatially separated from the first one, contributes to the daily-variable emission occurring in X-rays and VHE gamma-rays. Both the one-zone SSC and the two-zone SSC models can describe the daily SEDs via the variation of only four or five model parameters, under the hypothesis that the variability is associated mostly to the underlying particle population. This shows that the particle acceleration and cooling mechanism producing the radiating particles could be the main one responsible for the broadband SED variations during the flaring episodes in blazars. The two-zone SSC model provides a better agreement to the observed SED at the narrow peaks of the low- and high-energy bumps during the highest activity, although the reported one-zone SSC model could be further improved by the variation of the parameters related to the emitting region itself ($\delta$, $B$ and $R$), in addition to the parameters related to the particle population., Comment: Published in A&A, 30 pages, 15 figures, 6 tables. Online-data: multi-wavelength light curves (data in Fig. 1) and broadband spectral energy distributions (the data in Figs. 6, and B1-B4) are available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/578/A22. Corresponding authors: David Paneque (dpaneque@mpp.mpg.de), Shangyu Sun (sysun@mpp.mpg.de), Hajime Takami (takami@post.kek.jp)
Published: 2014
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42. Geoacoustic inversion using a rotated coordinate system and simulated annealing

Author: Laurie T. Fialkowski, Dalcio K. Dacol, Michael D. Collins, J. S. Perkins, and Joseph F. Lingevitch
Subjects: Coupling, Mechanical Engineering, Acoustics, Coordinate system, Ocean Engineering, Geometry, Inverse problem, Synthetic data, Simulated annealing, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Underwater acoustics, Rotation (mathematics), Gradient method, Geology
Abstract: An efficient method for geoacoustic inversions in a range-dependent ocean waveguide is implemented and tested with synthetic data. This method combines a simulated annealing search with an optimal coordinate rotation that increases the efficiency of navigating parameter landscapes for which parameter coupling is important. The coordinate rotation associated with the parameter couplings also provides information about which parameters are resolvable for a particular inversion frequency and array geometry. Using this information, results from several single-frequency inversions can be combined to obtain an estimate for the sediment parameters.
Published: 2003
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43. VERITAS Observations of the BL Lac Object PG 1553+113

Author: D. Staszak, K. Ragan, S. McArthur, E. Aliu, A. Varlotta, J. Tyler, I. Telezhinsky, J. H. Buckley, B. Zitzer, Jamie Holder, L. C. Reyes, A. Archer, Matteo Cerruti, Hugh Dickinson, Amy Furniss, L. Ciupik, David A. Williams, D. S. Hanna, J. Grube, Manel Errando, A. N. Otte, Karen Byrum, Martin Pohl, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, J. D. Eisch, Geza Gyuk, M. P. Connolly, H. Prokoph, S. Kumar, A. Weinstein, J. Dumm, J. V. Tucci, J. P. Finley, P. Moriarty, G. Hughes, A. McCann, K. Meagher, G. H. Gillanders, Jean-Francois Rajotte, S. P. Wakely, Vladimir Vassiliev, Wystan Benbow, K. Berger, N. Galante, E. Pueschel, T. B. Humensky, David Kieda, Henric Krawczynski, A. S Madhavan, N. Håkansson, Gordon T. Richards, E. Roache, Sinéad M. Griffin, Anna Barnacka, Frank Krennrich, Xuhui Chen, B. Behera, P. Kaaret, J. V. Cardenzana, Daniel Nieto, A. Wilhelm, R. A. Ong, M. Kertzman, A. Popkow, C. A. Johnson, Lucy Fortson, S. T. Griffiths, N. H. Park, J. Millis, Q. Feng, S. Federici, Matthias Beilicke, V. Bugaev, Wei Cui, T. Aune, P. T. Reynolds, G. H. Sembroski, R. Welsing, Matthew R. Orr, J. S. Perkins, Y. Khassen, P. Kar, P. Fortin, Ralph Bird, M. J. Lang, John L. Quinn, Abraham D. Falcone, Karlen Shahinyan, and ~
Subjects: extragalactic background light, spectra, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, blazars, pg-1553+113, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, telescope, 10. No inequality, Blazar, optical spectroscopy, bl lacertae objects: general, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Spectral index, model, Gamma rays, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, gamma-rays, Redshift, radiation, Crab Nebula, Pair production, Extragalactic background light, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, lacertae objects, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, BL Lac object
Abstract: We present results from VERITAS observations of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 spanning the years 2010, 2011, and 2012. The time-averaged spectrum, measured between 160 and 560\,GeV, is well described by a power law with a spectral index of $4.33 \pm 0.09$. The time-averaged integral flux above $200\,$GeV measured for this period was $(1.69 \pm 0.06) \times 10^{-11} \, \mathrm{ph} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-2} \, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$, corresponding to 6.9\% of the Crab Nebula flux. We also present the combined $\gamma$-ray spectrum from the Fermi Large Area Telescope and VERITAS covering an energy range from 100~MeV to 560~GeV. The data are well fit by a power law with an exponential cutoff at $\rm {101.9 \pm 3.2 \, \mathrm{GeV}} $. The origin of the cutoff could be intrinsic to PG~1553+113 or be due to the $\gamma$-ray opacity of our universe through pair production off the extragalactic background light (EBL). Given lower limits to the redshift of $\rm z \negthinspace > \negthinspace 0.395$ based on optical/UV observations of PG~1553+113, the cutoff would be dominated by EBL absorption. Conversely, the small statistical uncertainties of the VERITAS energy spectrum have allowed us to provide a robust upper limit on the redshift of PG 1553+113 of $z \negthinspace \leq \negthinspace 0.62$. A strongly-elevated mean flux of $(2.50 \pm 0.14) \times 10^{-11} \, \mathrm{ph} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-2} \, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$ (10.3\% of the Crab Nebula flux) was observed during 2012, with the daily flux reaching as high as $(4.44 \pm 0.71) \times 10^{-11} \, \mathrm{ph} \, \mathrm{cm}^{-2} \, \mathrm{s}^{-1}$ (18.3\% of the Crab Nebula flux) on MJD 56048. The light curve measured during the 2012 observing season is marginally inconsistent with a steady flux, giving a $\chi^2$ probability for a steady flux of 0.03\%., Comment: in press in ApJ, 2014
Published: 2014
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44. Constraints on very high energy emission from grb 130427a

Author: P. Kaaret, S. McArthur, Wei Cui, J. Grube, Manel Errando, Q. Feng, H. Prokoph, R. Welsing, A. McCann, Geza Gyuk, J. V. Tucci, P. Fortin, Gernot Maier, Valerie Connaughton, L. Ciupik, O. M. Weiner, G. H. Sembroski, Péter Veres, K. Berger, S. Federici, A. Popkow, H. Fleischhack, J. H. Buckley, S. P. Wakely, Xuhui Chen, H. Krawczynski, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, M. J. Lang, A. Wilhelm, David Kieda, Anna Barnacka, A. S. Madhavan, K. Ragan, P. Moriarty, J. Tyler, A. Furniss, John L. Quinn, B. Zitzer, Wystan Benbow, G. H. Gillanders, E. Pueschel, Jonathan Biteau, A. Varlotta, N. Galante, Gareth Hughes, Frank Krennrich, Y. Khassen, T. B. Humensky, Julie McEnery, M. Kertzman, Jean-Francois Rajotte, A. W. Smith, Vladimir Vassiliev, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, Luis C. Reyes, J. V. Cardenzana, E. Roache, Gordon T. Richards, C. A. Johnson, N. Håkansson, David A. Williams, N. H. Park, Karen Byrum, M. Beilicke, Abraham D. Falcone, Karlen Shahinyan, J. D. Eisch, A. Weinstein, P. Kar, P. T. Reynolds, S. Vincent, Daniel Nieto, J. Millis, R. Mukherjee, Lucy Fortson, D. Staszak, Matteo Cerruti, Sylvia J. Zhu, Martin Pohl, K. Meagher, R. A. Ong, D. S. Hanna, V. Bugaev, S. T. Griffiths, J. S. Perkins, A. N. Otte, E. Aliu, T. Aune, S. Griffin, Hugh Dickinson, and J. P. Finley
Subjects: spectra, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, telescope, law.invention, Telescope, swift, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, component, tev, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, gamma-ray bursts, Gamma ray, GRB 130427A, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, afterglows, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Redshift, gamma-ray burst: individual (grb 130427a), mission, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, limits, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Prompt emission from the very fluent and nearby (z=0.34) gamma-ray burst GRB 130427A was detected by several orbiting telescopes and by ground-based, wide-field-of-view optical transient monitors. Apart from the intensity and proximity of this GRB, it is exceptional due to the extremely long-lived high-energy (100 MeV to 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission, which was detected by the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for ~70 ks after the initial burst. The persistent, hard-spectrum, high-energy emission suggests that the highest-energy gamma rays may have been produced via synchrotron self-Compton processes though there is also evidence that the high-energy emission may instead be an extension of the synchrotron spectrum. VERITAS, a ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope array, began follow-up observations of GRB 130427A ~71 ks (~20 hr) after the onset of the burst. The GRB was not detected with VERITAS; however, the high elevation of the observations, coupled with the low redshift of the GRB, make VERITAS a very sensitive probe of the emission from GRB 130427A for E > 100 GeV. The non-detection and consequent upper limit derived place constraints on the synchrotron self-Compton model of high-energy gamma-ray emission from this burst., 22 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Published: 2014
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45. Very-high energy observations of the galactic center region by veritas in 2010-2012

Author: W. Chen, J. P. Finley, A. N. Otte, M. P. Connolly, Daniel Nieto, Abraham D. Falcone, Karlen Shahinyan, Matteo Cerruti, Amy Furniss, A. Wilhelm, L. Ciupik, B. Zitzer, M. J. Lang, J. Grube, S. Kumar, Xuhui Chen, Sinéad M. Griffin, J. Tyler, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, E. Pueschel, J. H. Buckley, N. H. Park, R. A. Ong, M. Kertzman, John L. Quinn, P. Kaaret, J. V. Cardenzana, P. Moriarty, J. V. Tucci, Gernot Maier, C. A. Johnson, J. Biteau, S. Federici, Reshmi Mukherjee, Karen Byrum, J. D. Eisch, S. P. Wakely, A. Popkow, Ralph Bird, Martin Pohl, A. Weinstein, S. T. Griffiths, S. McArthur, J. Dumm, G. H. Sembroski, Q. Feng, J. S. Perkins, Anna Barnacka, N. Galante, A. Archer, R. Welsing, A. McCann, Wei Cui, Anna Zajczyk, David A. Williams, A. W. Smith, V. Bugaev, Gordon T. Richards, David Kieda, E. Roache, P. Kar, D. Staszak, K. Ragan, K. Meagher, Jean-Francois Rajotte, Matthias Beilicke, Lucy Fortson, K. Berger, Henric Krawczynski, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, L. C. Reyes, P. T. Reynolds, S. Vincent, Y. Khassen, Hugh Dickinson, D. S. Hanna, A. Varlotta, Wystan Benbow, G. Hughes, N. Håkansson, Henrike Fleischhack, H. Prokoph, and Geza Gyuk
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxy: center, Dark matter, black hole physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, molecular clouds, gamma-ray source, gamma rays: galaxies, emission, crab-nebula, Supernova remnant, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astroparticle physics, Physics, Supermassive black hole, variability, Galactic Center, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, source catalog, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, methods: data analysis, Galaxy, dark-matter, Space and Planetary Science, astroparticle physics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ddc:520, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, sgr-a-asterisk, magic telescope, discovery, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Galactic center is an interesting region for high-energy (0.1-100 GeV) and very-high-energy (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray observations. Potential sources of GeV/TeV gamma-ray emission have been suggested, e.g., the accretion of matter onto the supermassive black hole, cosmic rays from a nearby supernova remnant (e.g. SgrA East), particle acceleration in a plerion, or the annihilation of dark matter particles. The Galactic center has been detected by EGRET and by Fermi/LAT in the MeV/GeV energy band. At TeV energies, the Galactic center was detected with moderate significance by the CANGAROO and Whipple 10 m telescopes and with high significance by H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS. We present the results from three years of VERITAS observations conducted at large zenith angles resulting in a detection of the Galactic center on the level of 18 standard deviations at energies above ~2.5TeV. The energy spectrum is derived and is found to be compatible with hadronic, leptonic and hybrid emission models discussed in the literature. Future, more detailed measurements of the high-energy cutoff and better constraints on the high-energy flux variability will help to refine and/or disentangle the individual models., 15 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
Published: 2014
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46. Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of gravitational lens delayed γ-ray flares from blazar B0218+357

Author: J. S. Perkins, Marco Ajello, D. J. Thompson, Roopesh Ojha, A. W. Smith, A. Chekhtman, Mustafa A. Amin, Benoit Lott, M. Orienti, Jeffrey D. Scargle, K. S. Wood, J. E. Grove, Denis Bastieri, Daniel Bulmash, Stefano Ciprini, E. E. Falco, Marcello Giroletti, Philip J. Marshall, C. C. Cheung, Robin H. D. Corbet, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Stefan Larsson, D. L. Wood, Cheung CC, Larsson S, Scargle JD, Amin MA, Blandford RD, Bulmash D, Chiang J, Ciprini S, Corbet RHD, Falco EE, Marshall PJ, Wood DL, Ajello M, Bastieri D, Chekhtman A, DAmmando F, Giroletti M, Grove JE, Lott B, Ojha R, Orienti M, Perkins JS, Razzano M, Smith AW, Thompson DJ, and Wood KS
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, gravitational lensing: strong, quasars: individual (B0218+357), Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, gamma rays: galaxies, Space and Planetary Science, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, law.invention, galaxies: active, gamma rays: galaxies, gravitational lensing: strong, quasars: individual: B0218+357, Function analysis, Telescope, Gravitational lens, law, 0103 physical sciences, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Flare, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), we report the first clear gamma-ray measurement of a delay between flares from the gravitationally lensed images of a blazar. The delay was detected in B0218+357, a known double-image lensed system, during a period of enhanced gamma-ray activity with peak fluxes consistently observed to reach >20-50x its previous average flux. An auto-correlation function analysis identified a delay in the gamma-ray data of 11.46 +/- 0.16 days (1 sigma) that is similar to 1 day greater than previous radio measurements. Considering that it is beyond the capabilities of the LAT to spatially resolve the two images, we nevertheless decomposed individual sequences of superposing gamma-ray flares/delayed emissions. In three such similar to 8-10 day-long sequences within a similar to 4 month span, considering confusion due to overlapping flaring emission and flux measurement uncertainties, we found flux ratios consistent with similar to 1, thus systematically smaller than those from radio observations. During the first, best-defined flare, the delayed emission was detailed with a Fermi pointing, and we observed flux doubling timescales of similar to 3-6 hr implying as well extremely compact gamma-ray emitting regions.
Published: 2014

47. Fermi large area telescope observations of blazar 3C 279 occultations by the sun

Author: J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, A. P. Waite, Igor V. Moskalenko, Brian L Winer, Olaf Reimer, A. A. Moiseev, Soebur Razzaque, M. N. Lovellette, S. Germani, K. S. Wood, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, A. W. Borgland, Sylvain Guiriec, C. Favuzzi, E. Hays, C. Romoli, T. L. Usher, Claudia Cecchi, F. Loparco, P. Lubrano, Daniel Sánchez, Hiromitsu Takahashi, M. Hayashida, Alex Drlica-Wagner, S. Murgia, Rodrigo Nemmen, Keith Bechtol, F. D'Ammando, R. Claus, M. E. Monzani, F. Piron, Takaaki Tanaka, E. Orlando, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Miranda Jackson, A. Reimer, Daniela Hadasch, T. Jogler, G. Pivato, Nicola Omodei, M. Razzano, Francesco Longo, Paolo Giommi, S. Rainò, A. Morselli, V. Vitale, Tsunefumi Mizuno, L. Tibaldo, J. Bregeon, S. Larsson, M. N. Mazziotta, S. Buson, R. A. Cameron, Steven Ritz, R. E. Hughes, Denis Bastieri, Dario Gasparrini, R. C. G. Chaves, P. Bruel, G. Godfrey, J. E. Grove, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Yasushi Fukazawa, R. Buehler, J. Lande, James Chiang, F. Gargano, Roger Blandford, A. Chekhtman, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, C. C. Cheung, J. Mehault, Justin Vandenbroucke, M. Tinivella, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Guido Barbiellini, Francesco Giordano, C. Monte, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, T. Glanzman, P. Fusco, E. J. Siskind, M. Orienti, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, V. Vasileiou, E. Cavazzuti, Seth Digel, Gloria Spandre, D. Prokhorov, Stefano Ciprini, Zhenwei Yang, Carmelo Sgrò, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, E. Do Couto E Silva, A. Franckowiak, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, Charles D. Dermer, Jürgen Knödlseder, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Blandford RD, Borgland AW, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Chaves RCG, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiang J, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, Dermer CD, Digel SW, Silva EDE, Drell PS, Drlica-Wagner A, Favuzzi C, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Germani S, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grove JE, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Hayashida M, Hays E, Hughes RE, Jackson MS, Jogler T, Knodlseder J, Kuss M, Lande J, Larsson S, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Mazziotta MN, Mehault J, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monte C, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nemmen R, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Piron F, Pivato G, Prokhorov D, Raino S, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Ritz S, Romoli C, Sanchez-Conde M, Sanchez DA, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Takahashi H, Tanaka T, Tibaldo L, Tinivella M, Tosti G, Troja E, Usher TL, Vandenbroucke J, Vasileiou V, Vianello G, Vitale V, Waite AP, Winer BL, Wood KS, Yang Z, 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), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), 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), 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 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), 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), 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), BARBIELLINI AMIDEI, Guido, Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Blandford, R. D., Borgland, A. W., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Chaves, R. C. G., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiang, J., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen Tanugi, J., D'Ammando, F., de Angelis, A., Dermer, C. D., Digel, S. W., Silva, E. do Couto e., Drell, P. S., Drlica Wagner, A., Favuzzi, C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Germani, S., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guiriec, S., Hadasch, D., Hayashida, M., Hays, E., Hughes, R. E., Jackson, M. S., Jogler, T., Knödlseder, J., Kuss, M., Lande, J., Larsson, S., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Mehault, J., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monte, C., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nemmen, R., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Prokhorov, D., Rainò, S., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Ritz, S., Romoli, C., Sánchez Conde, M., Sanchez, D. A., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, T., Tibaldo, L., Tinivella, M., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Usher, T. L., Vandenbroucke, J., Vasileiou, V., Vianello, G., Vitale, V., Waite, A. P., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., and Yang, Z.
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Sun: X-rays, gamma rays, 01 natural sciences, Article, law.invention, quasars: individual (3C 279), Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, occultations, individual: 3C 279 [quasars], astroparticle physics, gamma rays: general, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, quasars: individual: 3C 279, Blazar, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Light dark matter, Astroparticle physics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, X-ray [Sun], astroparticle physic, Astronomy, Quasar, gamma-rays, Sun: X-rays, gamma rays, occultation, Halo, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Observations of occultations of bright. gamma-ray sources by the Sun may reveal predicted pair halos around blazars and/or new physics, such as, e.g., hypothetical light dark matter particles-axions. We use Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) data to analyze four occultations of blazar 3C 279 by the Sun on October 8 each year from 2008 to 2011. A combined analysis of the observations of these occultations allows a point-like source at the position of 3C 279 to be detected with significance of approximate to 3 sigma, but does not reveal any significant excess over the flux expected from the quiescent Sun. The likelihood ratio test rules out complete transparency of the Sun to the blazar. gamma-ray emission at a 3s confidence level.
Published: 2014
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48. Impulsive and long duration high-energy gamma-ray emission from the very bright 2012 march 7 solar flares

Author: T. Jogler, Nicola Omodei, Luca Latronico, Charles D. Dermer, M. Tinivella, E. Do Couto E Silva, Denis Bastieri, G. Pivato, Vahé Petrosian, E. J. Siskind, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, J. Lande, M. E. Monzani, R. J. Murphy, M. Brigida, Elisabetta Bissaldi, R. Buehler, Brian L Winer, E. Orlando, Stefano Ciprini, Jürgen Knödlseder, J. H. Panetta, T. Glanzman, Alice Allafort, Yoshiyuki Inoue, J. S. Perkins, Seth Digel, Dario Gasparrini, W. N. Johnson, F. Piron, A. A. Moiseev, Masanori Ohno, Nicola Giglietto, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Paolo Giommi, J. F. Ormes, André Schulz, Rodrigo Nemmen, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Julie McEnery, Miranda Jackson, D. Horan, S. Murgia, Emanuele Bonamente, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, A. Reimer, A. Chekhtman, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, S. Larsson, Alex Drlica-Wagner, F. Loparco, Gudlaugur Johannesson, X. Hou, G. Tosti, Daniela Hadasch, W. B. Focke, M. Hayashida, P. Spinelli, F. Gargano, Gloria Spandre, Justin Vandenbroucke, Benoit Lott, M. Roth, M. Mayer, M. Razzano, Giacomo Vianello, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Filippo D'Ammando, Francesco Giordano, Marco Ajello, R. E. Hughes, Guido Barbiellini, J. B. Thayer, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, R. Desiante, T. J. Brandt, Persis S. Drell, D. L. Wood, L. R. Cominsky, Zhenwei Yang, Igor V. Moskalenko, R. A. Cameron, Francesco Longo, T. Kamae, T. A. Porter, Michael David Werner, E. Hays, M. Orienti, V. Vasileiou, D. Paneque, Olaf Reimer, D. J. Thompson, P. Fusco, P. Bruel, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Jan Conrad, S. Buson, G. Godfrey, R. Claus, T. L. Usher, A. Morselli, V. Vitale, L. Tibaldo, E. Nuss, C. Monte, C. Favuzzi, J. Bregeon, D. Kocevski, F. de Palma, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, M. Kuss, Takeshi Nakamori, A. S. Johnson, S. Cutini, G. Chiaro, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, Andrea Albert, S. Germani, K. S. Wood, James Chiang, A. Franckowiak, Luca Baldini, J. G. Thayer, M. N. Mazziotta, Sylvain Guiriec, Claudia Cecchi, Eric Charles, P. Lubrano, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), 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 de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Ajello M, Albert A, Allafort A, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bonamente E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Brigida M, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caraveo PA, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Palma F, Dermer CD, Desiante R, Digel SW, Silva EDE, Drell PS, Drlica-Wagner A, Favuzzi C, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Germani S, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grove JE, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Hayashida M, Hays E, Horan D, Hou X, Hughes RE, Inoue Y, Jackson MS, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Johnson AS, Johnson WN, Kamae T, Knodlseder J, Kocevski D, Kuss M, Lande J, Larsson S, Latronico L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McEnery JE, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monte C, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Murphy R, Nakamori T, Nemmen R, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Panetta JH, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Roth M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Takahashi H, Thayer JG, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Tinivella M, Tosti G, Troja E, Usher TL, Vandenbroucke J, Vasileiou V, Vianello G, Vitale V, Werner M, Winer BL, Wood DL, Wood KS, Yang Z, Ajello, M., Albert, A., Allafort, A., Baldini, L., BARBIELLINI AMIDEI, Guido, Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, Elisabetta, Bonamente, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Brigida, M., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Dermer, C. D., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Do Couto E. Silva, E., Drell, P. S., Drlica Wagner, A., Favuzzi, C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Germani, S., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guiriec, S., Hadasch, D., Hayashida, M., Hays, E., Horan, D., Hou, X., Hughes, R. E., Inoue, Y., Jackson, M. S., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Johnson, W. N., Kamae, T., Knödlseder, J., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Lande, J., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monte, C., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Murphy, R., Nakamori, T., Nemmen, R., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Panetta, J. H., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Roth, M., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. G., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Tinivella, M., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Usher, T. L., Vandenbroucke, J., Vasileiou, V., Vianello, G., Vitale, V., Werner, M., Winer, B. L., Wood, D. L., Wood, K. S., and Yang, Z.
Subjects: Sun: flares, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Proton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Hadron, Astrophysics, Sun: X-rays, gamma rays, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Power law, Spectral line, flares, Sun: X-rays, gamma rays [Sun], 0103 physical sciences, Coronal mass ejection, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Sun: flare, Solar flare, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Sun: flares, Sun: X-rays, gamma rays, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, gamma rays, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Physics::Space Physics, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Sun: X-rays, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observed two bright X-class solar flares on 2012 March 7, and detected gamma-rays up to 4 GeV. We detected gamma-rays both during the impulsive and temporally-extended emission phases, with emission above 100 MeV lasting for approximately 20 hours. Accurate localization of the gamma-ray production site(s) coincide with the solar active region from which X-ray emissions associated with these flares originated. Our analysis of the >100 MeV gamma-ray emission shows a relatively rapid monotonic decrease in flux during the first hour of the impulsive phase, and a much slower, almost monotonic decrease in flux for the next 20 hours. The spectra can be adequately described by a power law with a high energy exponential cutoff, or as resulting from the decay of neutral pions produced by accelerated protons and ions with an isotropic power-law energy distribution. The required proton spectrum has a number index ~3, with minor variations during the impulsive phase, while during the temporally extended phase the spectrum softens monotonically, starting with index ~4. The >30 MeV proton flux and spectra observed near the Earth by the GOES satellites also show a monotonic flux decrease and spectral softening during the extended phase, but with a harder spectrum, with index ~3. Based on the Fermi-LAT and GOES observations of the flux and spectral evolution of these bright flares, we explore the relative merits of prompt and continuous acceleration scenarios, hadronic and leptonic emission processes, and acceleration at the solar corona by the fast Coronal Mass Ejections (CME) as explanations for the observations. We conclude that the most likely scenario is continuous acceleration of protons in the solar corona which penetrate the lower solar atmosphere and produce pions that decay into gamma-rays., Comment: Contact Authors: N. Omodei, M. Pesce-Rollins, V. Petrosian. 14 pages, 5 figures, 4 Tables. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal
Published: 2014
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49. Test of Models of the Cosmic Infrared Background with Multiwavelength Observations of the Blazar 1ES 1218+30.4 in 2009

Author: Wystan Benbow, Daniel Nieto, A. N. Otte, M. P. Connolly, A. Bouvier, L. Ciupik, R. Dickherber, Geza Gyuk, T. Aune, P. T. Reynolds, P. Moriarty, S. McArthur, Ralph Bird, S. Federici, J. P. Finley, J. H. Buckley, Sinéad M. Griffin, Matthias Beilicke, P. Majumdar, Lucy Fortson, N. Galante, M. J. Lang, R. A. Ong, A. Varlotta, M. Kertzman, A. S Madhavan, Markus Böttcher, A. Lamerato, Q. Feng, John L. Quinn, Gordon T. Richards, E. Roache, G. D. Şentürk, Gernot Maier, D. S. Hanna, T. C. Arlen, Wei Cui, C. Gusbar, P. Roustazadeh, G. Hughes, Vladimir Vassiliev, H. Prokoph, S. P. Wakely, R. Welsing, Matthew R. Orr, V. Bugaev, C. Skole, G. H. Gillanders, Daniel Gall, P. Kaaret, Y. Khassen, E. Collins-Hughes, A. Iii. Garson, G. Tešić, Amy Furniss, Henric Krawczynski, S. Vincent, D. B. Saxon, N. H. Park, J. Millis, K. Li, J. S. Perkins, Martin Pohl, J. Dumm, G. H. Sembroski, S. Archambault, Reshmi Mukherjee, A. Weinstein, A. D. Falcone, A. McCann, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, David Kieda, M. Theiling, I. Telezhinsky, Jamie Holder, David A. Williams, D. Staszak, K. Ragan, B. Zitzer, J. Grube, Manel Errando, and A. Popkow
Subjects: Smithsonian institution, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic background radiation, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic background radiation, timing explorer, Cosmic infrared background, gamma rays: galaxies, strong flares, Blazar, bl lacertae objects: general, Diffuse radiation, Physics, gamma-ray observations, bl lacertae objects: individual (1es1218+30.4), particle-acceleration, tev blazars, Astronomy, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Visible radiation, galaxies: jets, veritas observations, diffuse radiation, Red shift, large-area telescope, x-ray, Space and Planetary Science, active galactic nuclei, extragalactic magnetic-fields, ddc:520
Abstract: We present the results of a multi-wavelength campaign targeting the blazar 1ES 1218+30.4 with observations with the 1.3 m McGraw-Hill optical telescope, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS). The RXTE and VERITAS observations were spread over a 13 day period and revealed clear evidence for flux variability, and a strong X-ray and gamma-ray flare on 2009 February 26 (MJD 54888). The campaign delivered a well-sampled broadband energy spectrum with simultaneous RXTE and VERITAS very high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) observations, as well as contemporaneous optical and Fermi observations. The 1ES 1218+30.4 broadband energy spectrum-the first with simultaneous X-ray and VHE gamma-ray energy spectra-is of particular interest as the source is located at a high cosmological redshift for a VHE source (z = 0.182), leading to strong absorption of VHE gamma rays by photons from the optical/infrared extragalactic background light (EBL) via gamma VHE +gamma EBL -> e(+) e(-)pair-creation processes. We model the data with a one-zone synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission model and with the extragalactic absorption predicted by several recent EBL models. We find that the observations are consistent with the SSC scenario and all the EBL models considered in this work. We discuss observational and theoretical avenues to improve on the EBL constraints.
Published: 2014
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50. Observation of Markarian 421 in TeV gamma rays over a 14-year time span

Author: M. J. Lang, J. Tyler, J. H. Buckley, D. A. Carter-Lewis, E. Collins-Hughes, G. H. Gillanders, S. P. Wakely, Daniel Gall, L. Ciupik, N. Galante, E. Roache, A. N. Otte, H. Krawczynski, T. Reynolds, M. P. Connolly, D. S. Hanna, Ralph Bird, G. Finnegan, Geza Gyuk, K. Ragan, A. W. Smith, C. Duke, A. Pichel, G. H. Sembroski, Lucy Fortson, R. Welsing, Abraham D. Falcone, T. C. Arlen, V. Bugaev, Matthew R. Orr, J. P. Finley, Wei Cui, Y. Khassen, V. A. Acciari, T. Aune, T. C. Weekes, S. M. Bradbury, John Toner, A. C. Rovero, A. Cesarini, A. S. Madhavan, Wystan Benbow, Martin Pohl, John L. Quinn, P. Moriarty, R. A. Ong, K. G. Gibbs, J. Dumm, J. S. Perkins, S. J. Fegan, S. Federici, A. Weinstein, Stephanie Wissel, M. Schroedter, I. de la Calle Perez, A. Varlotta, A. Bouvier, P. Kaaret, J. E. Ward, David Kieda, M. Theiling, Sinéad M. Griffin, M. Kertzman, A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe, D. J. Fegan, T. J. N. Nelson, J. A. Gaidos, David A. Williams, I. Telezhinsky, T. B. Humensky, Julie McEnery, D. Horan, D. Petry, J. Grube, M. Vivier, and F. Krennrich
Subjects: multiwavelength observations, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Active galactic nucleus, Ciencias Físicas, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Flux, Astrophysics, telescope, timing explorer, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, law.invention, purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https], Telescope, law, blazar markarian-421, emission, 0103 physical sciences, crab-nebula, flare, AGN, Blazar, tev gamma rays, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Markarian 421, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, markarian 421, Gamma ray, Astronomy, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 [https], TeV gamma rays, Astronomía, Crab Nebula, correlated variability, active galactic nuclei, ddc:540, agn, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Markarian galaxies, CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS, energy, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The variability of the blazar Markarian 421 in TeV gamma rays over a 14-year time period has been explored with the Whipple 10 m telescope. It is shown that the dynamic range of its flux variations is large and similar to that in X-rays. A correlation between the X-ray and TeV energy bands is observed during some bright flares and when the complete data sets are binned on long timescales. The main database consists of 878.4 hours of observation with the Whipple telescope, spread over 783 nights. The peak energy response of the telescope was 400 GeV with 20% uncertainty. This is the largest database of any TeV-emitting active galactic nucleus (AGN) and hence was used to explore the variability profile of Markarian 421. The time-averaged flux from Markarian 421 over this period was 0.446$\pm$0.008 Crab flux units. The flux exceeded 10 Crab flux units on three separate occasions. For the 2000-2001 season the average flux reached 1.86 Crab units, while in the 1996-1997 season the average flux was only 0.23 Crab units., Comment: 29 pages, 15 figures. Accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physics
Published: 2014
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