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astro-ph.HE2015★ 54 cited

Unveiling the Gamma-ray Source Count Distribution Below the Fermi Detection Limit with Photon Statistics

Hannes-S. Zechlin, Alessandro Cuoco, Fiorenza Donato +2

The source-count distribution as a function of their flux, dN/dS, is one of the main quantities characterizing gamma-ray source populations. We employ statistical properties of the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 73 cited

Radio detection prospects for a bulge population of millisecond pulsars as suggested by Fermi LAT observations of the inner Galaxy

Francesca Calore, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +2

Analogously to globular clusters, the dense stellar environment of the Galactic center has been proposed to host a large population of as-yet undetected millisecond pulsars (MSPs).…

astro-ph.HE2015

Sensitivity of the JEM-EUSO telescope to gravity effects in neutrino-induced air showers

Stefan Mladenov, Galina Vankova, Roumen Tsenov +2

We examine the JEM-EUSO sensitivity to gravity effects in the context of Randall-Sundrum (RS) model with a single extra dimension and small curvature of the metric. Exchanges of re…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 63 cited

4.5 years multi-wavelength observations of Mrk 421 during the ARGO-YBJ and Fermi common operation time

B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi +68

We report on the extensive multi-wavelength observations of the blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) covering radio to gamma-rays, during the 4.5 year period of ARGO-YBJ and Fermi common…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 266 cited

The 1st Fermi Lat Supernova Remnant Catalog

Fabio Acero, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello +156

To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 405 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Toward the Galactic Center

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission towards the Galactic centre (GC) in high-energy gamma-rays. This paper describes th…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 68 cited

The Extragalactic Gamma-ray Sky in the Fermi era

F. Massaro, D. J. Thompson, E. C. Ferrara

The Universe is largely transparent to rays in the GeV energy range, making these high-energy photons valuable for exploring energetic processes in the cosmos. After seven year…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 268 cited

Multiwavelength Evidence for Quasi-periodic Modulation in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

The Fermi LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +139

We report for the first time a gamma-ray and multi-wavelength nearly-periodic oscillation in an active galactic nucleus. Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) we have discover…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 77 cited

Search for extended gamma-ray emission from the Virgo galaxy cluster with Fermi-LAT

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +118

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 secti…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 89 cited

Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with 6 years of Fermi-LAT observations

LAT Collaboration

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in gamma-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100Ge…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 34 cited

Prospects for Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)

J. Carr, C. Balazs, T. Bringmann +20

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will have a unique chance of discovery for a large range of masses in Weakly Interacting Massive Particles models of dark matter. The principal…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 306 cited

2FHL: The Second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

LAT Collaboration

We present a catalog of sources detected above 50 GeV by the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 80 months of data. The newly delivered Pass 8 event-level analysis allows the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 27 cited

PSR J1906+0722: An Elusive Gamma-ray Pulsar

C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch, J. Wu +117

We report the discovery of PSR J1906+0722, a gamma-ray pulsar detected as part of a blind survey of unidentified Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources being carried out on the v…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 4 cited

Classical and relativistic conservation of momentum flux in radio-galaxies

L. Zaninetti

A new set of laws of motion for turbulent jets propagating in an intergalactic medium characterized by a decreasing density is derived by applying conservation of momentum flux bot…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 146 cited

Energy Estimation of Cosmic Rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +448

The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is part of the Pierre Auger Observatory and is used to detect the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. These observations are compared…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 102 cited

Pulsar-Wind Nebulae: Recent Progress in Observations and Theory

Oleg Kargaltsev, Benoit Cerutti, Yuri Lyubarsky +1

In this review we describe recent observational and theoretical developments in our understanding of pulsar winds and pulsar-wind nebulae (PWNe). We put special emphasis on the res…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 118 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from the Coma Cluster with six years of Fermi-LAT data

LAT Collaboration, Y. Rephaeli

We present results from γ-ray observations of the Coma cluster incorporating 6 years of Fermi-LAT data and the newly released {\emph{Pass 8}} event-level analysis. Our analysis of…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 36 cited

Improved absolute calibration of LOPES measurements and its impact on the comparison with REAS 3.11 and CoREAS simulations

W. D. Apel, J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez, L. Bähren +55

LOPES was a digital antenna array detecting the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers. The calibration of the absolute amplitude scale of the measurements was done using an exte…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 64 cited

Dark matter vs. astrophysics in the interpretation of AMS-02 electron and positron data

Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato, Nicolao Fornengo +1

We perform a detailed quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 electron and positron data. We investigate the interplay between the emission from primary astrophysical sources, n…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 33 cited

Search for Early Gamma-ray Production in Supernovae Located in a Dense Circumstellar Medium with the Fermi LAT

M. Ackermann, I. Arcavi, L. Baldini +108

Supernovae (SNe) exploding in a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) are hypothesized to accelerate cosmic rays in collisionless shocks and emit GeV gamma rays and TeV neutrinos on a t…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 63 cited

Dark matter searches in the gamma-ray extragalactic background via cross-correlations with galaxy catalogues

Alessandro Cuoco, Jun-Qing Xia, Marco Regis +3

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interactin…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 313 cited

Updated Search for Spectral Lines from Galactic Dark Matter Interactions with Pass 8 Data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration

Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into gamma rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral line. Therefore, detecting such a signature would be strong evidence for da…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 4 cited

Relativistic scaling laws for the light curve in supernovae

L. Zaninetti

In order to explain light curve (LC) for Supernova (SN) we derive a classical formula for the conversion of the flux of kinetic energy into radiation. We then introduce a correctio…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 19 cited

New blazars from the cross-match of recent multi-frequency catalogs

A. Maselli, F. Massaro, R. D'Abrusco +4

Blazars are radio-loud active galactic nuclei well known for their non thermal emission spanning a wide range of frequencies. The Roma-BZCAT is, to date, the most comprehensive lis…