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astro-ph.HE2015★ 15 cited

The Gamma-ray Afterglows of Tidal Disruption Events

Xian Chen, Germán Gómez-Vargas, James Guillochon

A star wandering too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) will be tidally disrupted. Previous studies of such "tidal disruption event" (TDE) mostly focus on the stellar debris…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 74 cited

Measurements of Cosmic-Ray Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes with the PAMELA experiment

O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya +56

The cosmic-ray hydrogen and helium (H, H, He, He) isotopic composition has been measured with the satellite-borne experiment PAMELA, which was launched into low-Ear…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 5 cited

Search of MeV-GeV counterparts of TeV sources with AGILE in pointing mode

A. Rappoldi, F. Lucarelli, C. Pittori +12

Context. Known TeV sources detected by major Cerenkov telescopes are investigated to identify possible MeV-GeV gamma-ray counterparts. Aims. A systematic study of the known sources…

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★ 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★ 16 cited

Search for anisotropies in cosmic-ray positrons detected by the PAMELA experiment

O. Adriani, G. C. Barbarino, G. A. Bazilevskaya +57

The PAMELA detector was launched on board of the Russian Resurs-DK1 satellite on June 15, 2006. Data collected during the first four years have been used to search for large-scale…

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★ 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★ 23 cited

On the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector

S. Sabatini, I. Donnarumma, M. Tavani +16

We present a study of the Angular Resolution of the AGILE gamma-ray imaging detector (GRID) that is operational in space since April 2007. The AGILE instrument is made of an array…

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★ 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★ 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★ 36 cited

Characterization of the Inner Knot of the Crab: The Site of the Gamma-ray Flares?

A. Rudy, D. Horns, A. DeLuca +18

One of the most intriguing results from the gamma-ray instruments in orbit has been the detection of powerful flares from the Crab Nebula. These flares challenge our understanding…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 179 cited

An improved limit to the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Alexander Aab, Pedro Abreu +462

Neutrinos in the cosmic ray flux with energies near 1 EeV and above are detectable with the Surface Detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We report here on searches throu…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 2 cited

Latest results from the ARGO-YBJ experiment

Giuseppe Di Sciascio

The ARGO-YBJ experiment has been in stable data taking for 5 years at the YangBaJing Cosmic Ray Observatory (Tibet, P.R. China, 4300 m a.s.l., 606 g/cm). With a duty-cycle grea…

astro-ph.HE2015

Future Extensive Air Shower arrays: from Gamma-Ray Astronomy to Cosmic Rays

Giuseppe Di Sciascio

Despite large progresses in building new detectors and in the analysis techniques, the key questions concerning the origin, acceleration and propagation of Galactic Cosmic Rays are…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 1.1k cited

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi-LAT Data

LAT Collaboration

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way are some of the most dark matter (DM) dominated objects known. We report on gamma-ray observations of Milky Way dSp…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 198 cited

Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data

LAT Collaboration, The DES Collaboration, A. Drlica-Wagner +123

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the…