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astro-ph.HE2019★ 22 cited

Timing of PSR J2055+3829, an eclipsing black widow pulsar discovered with the Nançay Radio Telescope

L. Guillemot, F. Octau, I. Cognard +5

We report on the timing observations of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2055+3829 originally discovered as part of the SPAN512 survey conducted with the Nançay Radio Telescope. The pul…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 173 cited

A -ray determination of the Universe's star-formation history

LAT Collaboration, M. Ajello, K. Helgason +4

The light emitted by all galaxies over the history of the Universe produces the extragalactic background light (EBL) at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The EBL is a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 65 cited

Searching a Thousand Radio Pulsars for Gamma-ray Emission

David A. Smith, Philippe Bruel, Ismaël Cognard +15

Identifying as many gamma-ray pulsars as possible in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data helps test pulsar emission models by comparing predicted and observed properties for…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 15 cited

The first ultraviolet detection of the Large Magellanic Cloud pulsar PSR B0540-69 and its multi-wavelength properties

R. P. Mignani, A. Shearer, A. de Luca +9

We observed the young ( yrs) pulsar PSR B0540-69 in the near-ultraviolet (UV) for the first time with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) aboard the {\em Hub…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 25 cited

Disentangling multiple high-energy emission components in the Vela X pulsar wind nebula with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

L. Tibaldo, R. Zanin, G. Faggioli +4

Vela X is a pulsar wind nebula in which two relativistic particle populations with distinct spatial and spectral distributions dominate the emission at different wavelengths. An ex…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 151 cited

Search for -ray line signals from dark matter annihilations in the inner Galactic halo from ten years of observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdallah, A. Abramowski +254

Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in very-high-energy -rays. The central region of the Milky Way halo is one of th…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 22 cited

Observing and modeling the gamma-ray emission from pulsar/pulsar wind nebula complex PSR J0205+6449/3C 58

Jian Li, Diego F. Torres, Ting Ting Lin +4

We present the results of the analysis of 8 years of Fermi-LAT data of the pulsar/pulsar wind nebula complex PSR J0205+6449/3C 58. Using a contemporaneous ephemeris, we carried out…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 359 cited

3FHL: The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

LAT Collaboration

We present a catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the first 7 years of data using the Pass 8 event-level analysis. This is the Third…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 114 cited

Search for extended sources in the Galactic Plane using 6 years of Fermi-Large Area Telescope Pass 8 data above 10 GeV

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +117

The spatial extension of a gamma-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties as well as its potential multi-wavelength counterpart. The capability to…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 30 cited

Deep morphological and spectral study of the SNR RCW 86 with Fermi-LAT

LAT Collaboration, G. Dubner, L. Duvidovich +4

RCW 86 is a young supernova remnant (SNR) showing a shell-type structure at several wavelengths and is thought to be an efficient cosmic-ray (CR) accelerator. Earlier \textit{Fermi…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 56 cited

The gamma-ray millisecond pulsar deathline, revisited - New velocity and distance measurements

L. Guillemot, D. A. Smith, H. Laffon +6

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) represent nearly half of the more than 160 currently known -ray pulsars detected by the Large Area Telescope on the \textit{Fermi} satellite, and a th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

Radio and Gamma-ray Properties of Extragalactic Jets from the TANAMI Sample

M. Böck, M. Kadler, C. Müller +28

Using high-resolution radio imaging with VLBI techniques, the TANAMI program has been observing the parsec-scale radio jets of southern (declination south of -30°) gamma-ray bright…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 24 cited

Discovery of a variable X-ray counterpart to HESS J1832-093: A new gamma-ray binary?

P. Eger, H. Laffon, P. Bordas +3

The TeV gamma-ray point source HESSJ1832-093 remains unidentified despite extensive multi-wavelength studies. The gamma-ray emission could originate in a very compact pulsar wind n…

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★ 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★ 10 cited

The energy budget of GRBs based on updated prompt \& afterglow observations

Nahliel Wygoda, Dafne Guetta, Marc-Adrien Mandich +1

We compare the isotropic equivalent 15-2000 keV gamma-ray energy, E_gamma, emitted by a sample of 91 swift Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts, with the isotropic equivale…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 50 cited

Constraints on an Annihilation Signal from a Core of Constant Dark Matter Density around the Milky Way Center with H.E.S.S

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +223

An annihilation signal of dark matter is searched for from the central region of the Milky Way. Data acquired in dedicated ON/OFF observations of the Galactic center region with H.…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 70 cited

The 2012 flare of PG 1553+113 seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +224

Very high energy (VHE, 100 GeV) -ray flaring activity of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object \pg\ has been detected by the \hess\ telescopes. The flux of the source incr…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

H.E.S.S. reveals a lack of TeV emission from the supernova remnant Puppis A

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

Puppis A is an interesting ~4 kyr-old supernova remnant (SNR) that shows strong evidence of interaction between the forward shock and a molecular cloud. It has been studied in deta…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 105 cited

Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +225

Diffuse -ray emission is the most prominent observable signature of celestial cosmic-ray interactions at high energies. While already being investigated at GeV energies over sev…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 31 cited

Long-term monitoring of PKS 2155304 with ATOM and H.E.S.S.: investigation of optical/-ray correlations in different spectral states

A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +225

In this paper we report on the analysis of all the available optical and very high-energy -ray (200 GeV) data for the BL Lac object PKS 2155304, collected simultaneously w…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 36 cited

HESS J1640-465 - an exceptionally luminous TeV gamma-ray supernova remnant

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +218

The results of follow-up observations of the TeV gamma-ray source HESSJ 1640-465 from 2004 to 2011 with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are reported in this work. Th…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 63 cited

Search for Extended γ-ray Emission around AGN with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +218

Context: Very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) γ-ray emission from blazars inevitably gives rise to electron-positron pair production through the interaction of these γ-rays with the E…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

Two active states of the narrow-line gamma-ray-loud AGN GB 1310+487

K. V. Sokolovsky, F. K. Schinzel, Y. T. Tanaka +49

Previously unremarkable, the extragalactic radio source GB 1310+487 showed a gamma-ray flare on 2009 November 18, reaching a daily flux of ~10^-6 photons/cm^2/s at energies E>100 M…