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astro-ph.HE2010

Physics and astrophysics with gamma-ray telescopes

J. Vandenbroucke

In the past few years gamma-ray astronomy has entered a golden age. A modern suite of telescopes is now scanning the sky over both hemispheres and over six orders of magnitude in e…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 12 cited

Near-Field Effects of Cherenkov Radiation Induced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Neutrinos

Chia-Yu Hu, Chih-Ching Chen, Pisin Chen

The radio approach for detecting the ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos has become a mature field. The Cherenkov pulse in radio detection originates from the charge excess of parti…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 169 cited

Three Millisecond Pulsars in FERMI LAT Unassociated Bright Sources

S. M. Ransom, P. S. Ray, F. Camilo +33

We searched for radio pulsars in 25 of the non-variable, unassociated sources in the Fermi LAT Bright Source List with the Green Bank Telescope at 820 MHz. We report the discovery…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 102 cited

Spectral Energy Distribution of Markarian 501: Quiescent State vs. Extreme Outburst

The VERITAS Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, T. Arlen +225

The very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) blazar Markarian 501 has a well-studied history of extreme spectral variability and is an excellent laboratory for studying the physical pro…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 120 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of Local Group galaxies: Detection of M31 and search for M33

LAT collaboration

Cosmic rays (CRs) can be studied through the galaxy-wide gamma-ray emission that they generate when propagating in the interstellar medium. The comparison of the diffuse signals fr…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 339 cited

Three years Swift-BAT Survey of AGN: reconciling theory and observations?

D. Burlon, M. Ajello, J. Greiner +4

It is well accepted that unabsorbed as well as absorbed AGN are needed to explain the nature and the shape of the Cosmic X-ray background, even if the fraction of highly absorbed o…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 239 cited

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration +6

We report on the gamma-ray activity of the blazar Mrk 501 during the first 480 days of Fermi operation. We find that the average LAT gamma-ray spectrum of Mrk 501 can be well descr…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 87 cited

Fermi-LAT Search for Pulsar Wind Nebulae around gamma-ray Pulsars

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

The high sensitivity of the Fermi-LAT (Large Area Telescope) offers the first opportunity to study faint and extended GeV sources such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). After one year…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 87 cited

Multi-wavelength Observations of the Flaring Gamma-ray Blazar 3C 66A in 2008 October

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo et al., the VERITAS collaboration +4

The BL Lacertae object 3C 66A was detected in a flaring state by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and VERITAS in 2008 October. In addition to these gamma-ray observations, F-GA…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 111 cited

Constraints on the Cosmic-Ray Density Gradient beyond the Solar Circle from Fermi gamma-ray Observations of the Third Galactic Quadrant

Fermi LAT Collaboration

We report an analysis of the interstellar -ray emission in the third Galactic quadrant measured by the {Fermi} Large Area Telescope. The window encompassing the Galactic plane f…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 230 cited

Time Delay of Cascade Radiation for TeV Blazars and the Measurement of the Intergalactic Magnetic Field

Charles D. Dermer, Massimo Cavadini, Soebur Razzaque +3

Recent claims that the strength B_IGMF of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) is >~ 1e-15 G are based on upper limits to the expected cascade flux in the GeV band produced by b…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 364 cited

Gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula

LAT Collaboration

A young and energetic pulsar powers the well-known Crab Nebula. Here we describe two separate gamma-ray (photon energy >100 MeV) flares from this source detected by the Large Area…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 251 cited

Precise Gamma-Ray Timing and Radio Observations of 17 Fermi Gamma-Ray Pulsars

P. S. Ray, M. Kerr, D. Parent +23

We present precise phase-connected pulse timing solutions for 16 gamma-ray-selected pulsars recently discovered using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Te…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 47 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from magnetars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT collaboration

We report on the search for 0.1-10 GeV emission from magnetars in 17 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. No significant evidence for gamma-ray emission from an…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 41 cited

PSRs J0248+6021 and J2240+5832: Young Pulsars in the Northern Galactic Plane. Discovery, Timing, and Gamma-ray observations

G. Theureau, D. Parent, I. Cognard +15

Pulsars PSR J0248+6021 (rotation period P=217 ms and spin-down power Edot = 2.13E35 erg/s) and PSR J2240+5832 (P=140 ms, Edot = 2.12E35 erg/s) were discovered in 1997 with the Nanc…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 5 cited

Cosmic Ray e^+/(e^- + e^+) and pbar/p Ratios Explained by an Injection Model Based on Gamma-ray Observations

S. -H. Lee, T. Kamae, L. Baldini +7

We present a model of cosmic ray injection into the Galactic space based on recent gamma-ray observations of supernova remnants (SNRs) and pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) by the Fermi L…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 165 cited

Gamma-ray Emission from Crushed Clouds in Supernova Remnants

Yasunobu Uchiyama, Roger Blandford, Stefan Funk +2

It is shown that the radio and gamma-ray emission observed from newly-found "GeV-bright" supernova remnants (SNRs) can be explained by a model, in which a shocked cloud and shock-a…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 23 cited

Swift-BAT Survey of Galactic Sources: Catalog and Properties of the populations

R. Voss, M. Ajello

We study the populations of X-ray sources in the Milky Way in the 15-55 keV band using a deep survey with the BAT instrument aboard the Swift observatory. We present the logN-logS…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 92 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observation of a Gamma-ray Source at the Position of Eta Carinae

The Fermi LAT collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray source that is spatially consistent with the location of Eta Carinae. This source ha…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 269 cited

Global cosmic-ray related luminosity and energy budget of the Milky Way

A. W. Strong, T. A. Porter, S. W. Digel +4

We use the GALPROP code for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation to calculate the broad-band luminosity spectrum of the Milky Way related to CR propagation and interactions in the interstel…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 106 cited

Fermi-LAT Study of Gamma-ray Emission in the Direction of Supernova Remnant W49B

LAT Collaboration

We present an analysis of the gamma-ray data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the direction of SNR W49B (G43.3-0.2). A br…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 87 cited

Detection of the Small Magellanic Cloud in gamma-rays with Fermi/LAT

LAT collaboration

The flux of gamma rays with energies >100MeV is dominated by diffuse emission from CRs illuminating the ISM of our Galaxy through the processes of Bremsstrahlung, pion production a…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 88 cited

Searches for Cosmic-Ray Electron Anisotropies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

The Fermi LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope on board the \textit{Fermi} satellite (\textit{Fermi}-LAT) detected more than 1.6 million cosmic-ray electrons/positrons with energies above 60 GeV during…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 346 cited

Fermi LAT observations of cosmic-ray electrons from 7 GeV to 1 TeV

Fermi LAT collaboration

We present the results of our analysis of cosmic-ray electrons using about 8 million electron candidates detected in the first 12 months on-orbit by the Fermi Large Area Telescope.…