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The Amerigo Vespucci as a traveling laboratory for studying the cosmic-ray fluxes at sea level
Davide Cerasole, Federica Cuna, Gaia De Palma +13
We have installed and operated a plastic scintillator detector counter to measure the flux of cosmic radiation during the 2023-2025 tour of the historical vessel Amerigo Vespucci.…
Exploring the nature of Galactic unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT
F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +120
We investigate the nature of the unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT close (|b|<10°) to the Galactic plane, representing 16% of all sources in the 4FGL-DR4 catalog. The…
Gamma-ray signature of superluminous supernovae: Fermi-LAT GeV detection of SN 2017egm and evidence of a central engine
F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +116
Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a rare class of transients with peak luminosities 10-100 times greater than those of standard core-collapse supernovae (SNe). The mechanisms po…
GRB 241030A: a bright afterglow challenging forward shock emission
J. -G. Ducoin, C. Pellouin, V. Aivazyan +97
Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 241030A (z = 1.411) exhibited a bright afterglow (similar to GRB 221009A), detected across gamma-ray, X-ray, UV, and optical bands, providing a probe of GRB aft…
Efficient and precise Cherenkov-based charged particle timing using SiPMs
M. N. Mazziotta, A. Di Mauro, M. Giliberti +7
Dedicated R&D efforts are currently underway to couple a thin Cherenkov radiator to Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) arrays for precise charged particle Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurem…
A SiPM-Based RICH Detector with Timing Capabilities for Isotope Identification
M. N. Mazziotta, L. Congedo, G. De Robertis +7
In this work, we present a novel compact particle identification (PID) detector concept based on Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) optimized to perform combined Ring-Imaging Cherenk…
Beam test studies for a SiPM-based RICH detector prototype for the future ALICE~3 experiment
A. R. Altamura, L. Congedo, G. De Robertis +14
The ALICE Collaboration is proposing a completely new apparatus, ALICE~3, for the LHC Runs~5 and beyond. In this context, a key subsystem for high-energy charged particle identific…
Test beam performance of a novel RICH detector with timing capabilities for the future ALICE~3 PID system at LHC
M. N. Mazziotta, L. Congedo, G. De Robertis +9
The ALICE Collaboration is proposing a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. A key subsystem for charged particle identification will be a Ring-Imaging C…
Development of a novel compact and fast SiPM-based RICH detector for the future ALICE 3 PID system at LHC
M. N. Mazziotta, A. R. Altamura, L. Congedo +12
A dedicated R\&D is ongoing for the charged particle identification system of the \mbox{ALICE 3} experiment proposed for the LHC Run 5 and beyond. One of the subsystems for the hig…
Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS
LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini +586
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches using gamma-ray telescopes because they are thought to have high DM content and a low…
A Systematic Search for MeV-GeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae without Gamma-ray Detected Pulsars
Jordan Eagle, Daniel Castro, Wei Zhang +3
An increasing number of pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are being identified in the TeV band by ground-based Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes such that they constitute the dominant sour…
Puzzling Variation of Gamma Rays from the Sun over the Solar Cycle Revealed with Fermi-LAT
A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio, M. Ajello +100
The steady-state gamma-ray emission from the Sun is thought to consist of two emission components due to interactions with Galactic cosmic rays: (1) a hadronic disk component, and…
Fermi detection of gamma-ray Emission from the Hot Coronae of Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei
Jun-Rong Liu, Jian-Min Wang, Fermi-LAT Collaboration
Relativistic jets around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are well-known powerful -ray emitters. In absence of the jets in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs), how the SMB…
Characterizing Candidate Blazar Counterparts of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A
KM3NeT Collaboration, MessMapp Group, LAT Collaboration +13
High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the…
Search for Extended GeV Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane
S. Abdollahi, F. Acero, A. Acharyya +108
The recent detection of extended -ray emission around middle-aged pulsars is interpreted as inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs escaping the…
GRB 221009A: the B.O.A.T Burst that Shines in Gamma Rays
M. Axelsson, M. Ajello, M. Arimoto +151
We present a complete analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of GRB 221009A, the brightest Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) ever detected. The burst emission above 30 MeV detected…
The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
David A. Smith, Philippe Bruel, Colin J. Clark +156
We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio…
Constraints on the gamma-ray emission from Small Solar System Bodies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope data
S. De Gaetano, L. Di Venere, F. Gargano +6
All known Small Solar System Bodies have diameters between a few meters and a few thousands of kilometers. Based on the collisional evolution of Solar System Bodies, a larger numbe…
Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow
S. Lesage, P. Veres, M. S. Briggs +136
We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst ever observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). This GRB has continuous prompt emission lasting m…
The Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository
S. Abdollahi, M. Ajello, L. Baldini +110
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) light curve repository (LCR) is a publicly available, continually updated library of gamma-ray light curves of variable Fermi-LAT sources gener…
Constraints on dark matter scattering with long lived mediators from observations of the Sun with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
D. Serini, F. Loparco, M. N. Mazziotta +6
The Sun represents a promising target for indirect dark matter searches, as dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in its core or in external o…
Search for new cosmic-ray acceleration sites within the 4FGL catalog Galactic plane sources
LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, F. Acero +117
Cosmic rays are mostly composed of protons accelerated to relativistic speeds. When those protons encounter interstellar material, they produce neutral pions which in turn decay in…
A Gamma-ray Pulsar Timing Array Constrains the Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Background
M. Ajello, W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini +129
After large galaxies merge, their central supermassive black holes are expected to form binary systems whose orbital motion generates a gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanoh…