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astro-ph.CO2009★ 18 cited

Power for dry BL Lacertae objects

A. Paggi, A. Cavaliere, V. Vittorini +1

Is it significant that the intrinsic outputs of several BL Lacs are observed to level off at values of about 10^46 erg s^-1? In searching for an answer, we compare gamma-ray observ…

nucl-ex2009★ 165 cited

Differential cross section and recoil polarization measurements for the gamma p to K+ Lambda reaction using CLAS at Jefferson Lab

M. E. McCracken, M. Bellis, C. A. Meyer +1

We present measurements of the differential cross section and Lambda recoil polarization for the gamma p to K+ Lambda reaction made using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. These…

physics.ins-det2009★ 21 cited

Technical aspects and dark matter searches

R. Bernabei, P. Belli, F. Cappella +12

A variety of detectors has been proposed for dark matter direct detection, but most of them -- by the fact -- are still at R&D stage. In many cases, it is claimed that the lack of…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 205 cited

Fermi observations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus: diffuse gamma-ray emission in the outer Galaxy

LAT collaboration

We present the analysis of the interstellar gamma-ray emission measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope toward a region in the second Galactic quadrant at 100 deg < l < 145 deg a…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 17 cited

Temporal properties of GX 301-2 over a year-long observation with SuperAGILE

Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, E. Costa +52

We present the long-term monitoring of the High Mass X-ray Binary GX 301-2 performed with the SuperAGILE instrument on-board the AGILE mission. The source was monitored in the 20-6…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 1k cited

The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +107

(Abridged) We have conducted a detailed investigation of the broad-band spectral properties of the γ-ray selected blazars of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). By combining ou…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 76 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cosmic-Ray Induced gamma-ray Emission of the Earth's Atmosphere

LAT collaboration

We report on measurements of the cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission of Earth's atmosphere by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT has ob…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 171 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Measurements of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission at Intermediate Galactic Latitudes

LAT Collaboration

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experime…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 78 cited

Discovery of very high energy gamma rays from PKS 1424+240 and multiwavelength constraints on its redshift

The VERITAS Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, The Fermi Collaboration +4

We report the first detection of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission above 140 GeV from PKS 1424+240, a BL Lac object with an unknown redshift. The photon spectrum above 140…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 207 cited

Discovery of extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar Cygnus X-3

M. Tavani, A. Bulgarelli, G. Piano +67

The study of relativistic particle acceleration is a major topic of high-energy astrophysics. It is well known that massive black holes in active galaxies can release a substantial…

nucl-ex2009★ 38 cited

Differential cross section of gamma n to K+ Sigma- on bound neutrons with incident photons from 1.1 to 3.6 GeV

S. Anefalos Pereira, M. Mirazita, P. Rossi +4

Differential cross sections of the reaction gamma d to K+ Sigma- (p) have been measured with the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab using incident photons with energies between 1.1 and…

hep-ph2009★ 5 cited

Quark mass hierarchies in D-brane realizations of the Standard Model

Pascal Anastasopoulos, Andrea Lionetto

This proceeding is based on arXiv:0905.3044. We analyze the problem of the hierarchy of masses and mixings in orientifold realizations of the Standard Model. We present a bottom-up…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 216 cited

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Starburst Galaxies M82 and NGC 253 with the Large Area Telescope on Fermi

Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo

We report the detection of high-energy gamma-ray emission from two starburst galaxies using data obtained with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…

hep-lat2009★ 181 cited

Light Meson Physics from Maximally Twisted Mass Lattice QCD

R. Baron, Ph. Boucaud, P. Dimopoulos +16

We present a comprehensive investigation of light meson physics using maximally twisted mass fermions for two mass-degenerate quark flavours. By employing four values of the lattic…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 49 cited

Fermi Observations of the Very Hard Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

LAT Collaboration

We report the observations of PG 1553+113 during the first ~200 days of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope science operations, from 4 August 2008 to 22 February 2009 (MJD 54682.7-5488…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 332 cited

Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 as a New Class of Gamma-Ray AGN

LAT Collaboration, G. Ghisellini, L. Maraschi +1

We report the discovery with Fermi/LAT of gamma-ray emission from three radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: PKS 1502+036 (z=0.409), 1H 0323+342 (z=0.061) and PKS 2004-447 (z…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 65 cited

Gamma-ray and Radio Properties of Six Pulsars Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

The Fermi LAT collaboration, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

We report the detection of pulsed gamma-rays for PSRs J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850 and J1718-3825 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fe…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 279 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula

The Fermi LAT collaboration, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium, : +1

We report on gamma-ray observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula using 8 months of survey data with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The high quality light curve obtained usi…

hep-ph2009★ 11 cited

Generalized parton distributions of the pion in a covariant Bethe-Salpeter model and light-front models

T. Frederico, E. Pace, B. Pasquini +1

The generalized parton distributions of the pion are studied within different light-front approaches for the quark-hadron and quark-photon vertices, exploring different kinematical…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 376 cited

An Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmologica…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 139 cited

Fermi LAT Observations of LS 5039

The Fermi LAT collaboration

The first results from observations of the high mass X-ray binary LS 5039 using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data between 2008 August and 2009 June are presented. Our result…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 13 cited

Monitoring the hard X-ray sky with SuperAGILE

M. Feroci, E. Costa, E. Del Monte +77

SuperAGILE is the hard X-ray monitor of the AGILE gamma ray mission, in orbit since 23 April 2007. It is an imaging experiment based on a set of four independent silicon str…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 45 cited

Multiwavelength observations of 3C 454.3 II. The AGILE 2007 December campaign

I. Donnarumma, G. Pucella, V. Vittorini +75

We report on the second AGILE multiwavelength campaign of the blazar 3C 454.3 during the first half of December 2007. This campaign involved AGILE, Spitzer, Swift,Suzaku,the WEBT c…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 147 cited

Fermi observations of TeV-selected AGN

S. J. Fegan, D. Sanchez, Fermi LAT Collaboration +2

We report on observations of TeV-selected AGN made during the first 5.5 months of observations with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fer…