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astro-ph.HE2013★ 293 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A

LAT collaboration, GBM collaboration

The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the nature…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 59 cited

Exploring the blazar zone in High Energy flares of FSRQs

L. Pacciani, F. Tavecchio, I. Donnarumma +5

The gamma-ray emission offers a powerful diagnostic tool to probe jets and their surroundings in flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). In particular, sources emitting at high energie…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 74 cited

The First Pulse of the Extremely Bright GRB 130427A: A Test Lab for Synchrotron Shocks

R. Preece, J. Michael Burgess, A. von Kienlin +156

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 84 cited

TeV gamma-ray survey of the Northern sky using the ARGO-YBJ detector

YBJ Collaboration, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini +94

The ARGO-YBJ detector is an extensive air shower array that has been used to monitor the northern -ray sky at energies above 0.3 TeV from 2007 November to 2013 January. In this…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 27 cited

Hadronic Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Emission from Cygnus X-3

N. Sahakyan, G. Piano, M. Tavani

Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) is a remarkable Galactic microquasar (X-ray binary) emitting from radio to -ray energies. In this paper, we consider hadronic model of emission of -rays…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 17 cited

An updated list of AGILE bright gamma-ray sources and their variability in pointing mode

F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori, A. W. Chen +76

We present a variability study of a sample of bright gamma-ray (30 MeV -- 50 GeV) sources. This sample is an extension of the first AGILE catalogue of gamma-ray sources (1AGL), obt…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 475 cited

Dark Matter Constraints from Observations of 25 Milky Way Satellite Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, A. Albert +119

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are some of the most dark-matter-dominated objects known. Due to their proximity, high dark matter content, and lack of ast…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 79 cited

Determination of the Point-Spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei

LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to detect photons with energies from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV. The pre-laun…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 104 cited

PSR J2021+4026 in the Gamma Cygni region: the first variable gamma-ray pulsar seen by the Fermi LAT

LAT collaboration

Long-term monitoring of PSR J2021+4026 in the heart of the Cygnus region with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unveiled a sudden decrease in flux above 100 MeV over a time scal…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 58 cited

Modelling the Kinked Jet of the Crab Nebula

A. Mignone, E. Striani, M. Tavani +1

We investigate the dynamical propagation of the South-East jet from the Crab pulsar interacting with supernova ejecta by means of three-dimensional relativistic MHD numerical simul…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 34 cited

Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +875

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive stars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We inv…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 179 cited

Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era

J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott +892

We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generat…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 308 cited

The cosmic-ray positron energy spectrum measured by PAMELA

PAMELA Collaboration, O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino +63

Precision measurements of the positron component in the cosmic radiation provide important information about the propagation of cosmic rays and the nature of particle sources in ou…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 64 cited

Constraints on WIMP Annihilation for Contracted Dark Matter in the Inner Galaxy with the Fermi-LAT

German A. Gomez-Vargas, Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde, Ji-Haeng Huh +7

We derive constraints on parameters of generic dark matter candidates by comparing theoretical predictions with the gamma-ray emission observed by the Fermi-LAT from the region aro…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 166 cited

Search for cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission in Galaxy Clusters

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +123

Current theories predict relativistic hadronic particle populations in clusters of galaxies in addition to the already observed relativistic leptons. In these scenarios hadronic in…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 47 cited

Associating long-term gamma-ray variability with the superorbital period of LS I 61 303

LAT Collaboration

Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamm…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 38 cited

The far emission region of the gamma-ray blazar PKS B1424-418

F. Tavecchio, L. Pacciani, I. Donnarumma +4

We report multi-wavelength (IR-O, UV, X-ray, gamma-ray) data of the flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS B1424-418 (z=1.52) gathered during an active phase in 2013 April . As for…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 125 cited

Constraints on the Galactic Population of TEV Pulsar Wind Nebulae Using Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations

F. Acero, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +155

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) have been established as the most populous class of TeV gamma-ray emitters. Since launch, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)identified five high-energy…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 2 cited

Quark nuggets search using 2350 Kg gravitational waves aluminum bar detectors

P. Astone, M. Bassan, E. Coccia +12

The gravitational wave resonant detectors can be used as detectors of quark nuggets, like nuclearites (nuclear matter with a strange quark). This search has been carried out using…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 247 cited

Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Dark Matter Implications

LAT Collaboration

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially mono…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 837 cited

The Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

LAT collaboration

This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 58 cited

The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis: A list of flaring gamma-ray sources and the search for transients in our Galaxy

LAT Collaboration

In this paper we present the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool to systematically study the variability of the gamma-ray sky measured by the Large Area Telescope (LA…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 133 cited

Impulsive and Long Duration High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission From the Very Bright 2012 March 7 Solar Flares

LAT collaboration

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…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 53 cited

Measurement of the isotopic composition of hydrogen and helium nuclei in cosmic rays with the PAMELA experiment

O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya +59

The satellite-borne experiment PAMELA has been used to make new measurements of cosmic ray H and He isotopes. The isotopic composition was measured between 100 and 600 MeV/n for hy…