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astro-ph.CO2015★ 180 cited

Resolving the Extragalactic -ray Background above 50 GeV with Fermi-LAT

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 160 cited

Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation Signals from the Fermi LAT 4-year Measurement of the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +110

We search for evidence of dark matter (DM) annihilation in the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) measured with 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. An im…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 273 cited

The Imprint of The Extragalactic Background Light in the Gamma-Ray Spectra of Blazars

LAT Collaboration

The light emitted by stars and accreting compact objects through the history of the Universe is encoded in the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Knowledge of t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 239 cited

Constraints on the Galactic Halo Dark Matter from Fermi-LAT Diffuse Measurements

LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +139

We have performed an analysis of the diffuse gamma-ray emission with the Fermi Large Area Telescope in the Milky Way Halo region searching for a signal from dark matter annihilatio…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 188 cited

The 2010 very high energy gamma-ray flare & 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +442

Abridged: The giant radio galaxy M 87 with its proximity, famous jet, and very massive black hole provides a unique opportunity to investigate the origin of very high energy (VHE;…

astro-ph.CO2011

MAGIC observations of the giant radio galaxy M87 in a low emission state between 2005 and 2007

Karsten Berger, Dijana Dominis Prester, Fabrizio Tavecchio +1

We present the results of a long M87 monitoring campaign in very high energy -rays with the MAGIC-I Cherenkov telescope. A total of 150 hours of data was gathered between 2005 a…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 125 cited

Gamma-Ray and Parsec-Scale Jet Properties of a Complete Sample of Blazars From the MOJAVE Program

M. L. Lister, M. Aller, H. Aller +142

We investigate the Fermi LAT gamma-ray and 15 GHz VLBA radio properties of a joint gamma-ray- and radio-selected sample of AGNs obtained during the first 11 months of the Fermi mis…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 151 cited

The radio/gamma-ray connection in Active Galactic Nuclei in the era of the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort +144

We present a detailed statistical analysis of the correlation between radio and gamma-ray emission of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) detected by Fermi during its first year of op…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 223 cited

Simultaneous Planck, Swift, and Fermi observations of X-ray and gamma-ray selected blazars

P. Giommi, G. Polenta, A. Lahteenmaki +92

We present simultaneous Planck, Swift, Fermi, and ground-based data for 105 blazars belonging to three samples with flux limits in the soft X-ray, hard X-ray, and gamma-ray bands.…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 93 cited

MAGIC observations and multiwavelength properties of the quasar 3C279 in 2007 and 2009

The MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli +144

Context. 3C 279, the first quasar discovered to emit VHE gamma-rays by the MAGIC telescope in 2006, was reobserved by MAGIC in January 2007 during a major optical flare and from De…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 57 cited

PG 1553+113: five years of observations with MAGIC

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, E. A. Alvarez +156

We present the results of five years (2005-2009) of MAGIC observations of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 at very high energies (VHEs, E > 100 GeV). Power law fits of the individual…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 334 cited

A change in the optical polarization associated with a gamma-ray flare in the blazar 3C 279

LAT Collaboration, members of the 3C 279 multi-band campaign

It is widely accepted that strong and variable radiation detected over all accessible energy bands in a number of active galaxies arises from a relativistic, Doppler-boosted jet po…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 211 cited

The Fermi-LAT high-latitude Survey: Source Count Distributions and the Origin of the Extragalactic Diffuse Background

LAT Collaboration

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrin…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 193 cited

Constraints on Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Measurement

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +147

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 198 cited

Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no s…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 300 cited

Observations of Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal galaxies with the Fermi-LAT detector and constraints on Dark Matter models

LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +160

We report on the observations of 14 dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope taken during the first 11 months of survey mode operations. The Fermi telesco…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 45 cited

MAGIC TeV Gamma-Ray Observations of Markarian 421 during Multiwavelength Campaigns in 2006

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli +145

The Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cerenkov (MAGIC) telescope participated in three multiwavelength (MWL) campaigns, observing the blazar Markarian (Mkn) 421 during the nights of…

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.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.CO2009★ 11 cited

Fermi/LAT discovery of gamma-ray emission from a relativistic jet in the narrow-line Seyfert 1 quasar PMN J0948+0022

L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, L. Maraschi +2

We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray emission from the peculiar quasar PMN J0948+0022 (z=0…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 1 cited

The June 2008 flare of Markarian 421 from optical to TeV energies

R. M. Wagner, I. Donnarumma, J. Grube +6

We present optical to very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations of Mrk 421 between 2008 May 24 and June 23. A high-energy (HE) gamma-ray signal was detected by AGILE-GRID durin…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 34 cited

Suzaku and Multi-wavelength Observations of OJ 287 during the Periodic Optical Outburst in 2007

Hiromi Seta, Naoki Isobe, Makoto S. Tashiro +10

Suzaku observations of the blazar OJ 287 were performed in 2007 April 10--13 and November 7--9. They correspond to a quiescent and a flaring state, respectively. The X-ray spectra…