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A Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates in 46-Year Radio Light Curves of 83 Blazars
B. Molina, P. Mróz, P. V. De la Parra +23
The combined University of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory (UMRAO) and Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) blazar monitoring programs at 14.5/15 GHz provide uninterrupted li…
High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
Sarah M. Wagner, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Greg Madejski +4
The production site and process responsible for the highly variable high-energy emission observed from blazar jets are still debated. Gravitational lenses can be used as microscope…
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…
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…
Statistical properties of flux variations in blazar light curves at GeV and TeV energies
Sarah M. Wagner, Paul R. Burd, Daniela Dorner +23
Despite numerous detections of individual flares, the physical origin of the rapid variability observed from blazars remains uncertain. Using Bayesian blocks and the Eisenstein-Hut…
Ornstein-Uhlenbeck parameter extraction from light curves of Fermi-LAT observed blazars
Paul R. Burd, Luca Kohlhepp, Sarah M. Wagner +3
Context. Monthly-binned gamma-ray light curves of 236 bright gamma-ray sources, particularly blazars, selected from a sample of 2278 high-galactic latitude objects observed with Fe…
Characterizing the Gamma-Ray Variability of the Brightest Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars Observed with the Fermi LAT
Manuel Meyer, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Roger D. Blandford
Almost 10 yr of -ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have revealed extreme -ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making…
Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226
J. L. Racusin, E. Burns, A. Goldstein +138
We present the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the LIGO binary black hole merger event GW151226 and candi- date LVT151012. No can…
Minute-Timescale >100 MeV gamma-ray variability during the giant outburst of quasar 3C 279 observed by Fermi-LAT in 2015 June
LAT Collaboration
On 2015 June 16, Fermi-LAT observed a giant outburst from the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 with a peak MeV flux of $\sim3.6\times10^{-5}\;{\rm photons}\;{\rm cm}^{-2}\;…
Gamma-ray flare activity from PSR B1259-63 during 2014 periastron passage and comparison to its 2010 passage
G. A. Caliandro, C. C. Cheung, J. Li +4
PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a gamma-ray binary system containing a radio pulsar in a highly elliptical ~3.4-year orbit around a Be star. In its 2010 periastron passage, multiwavelength…
Fermi-LAT Detection of Gravitational Lens Delayed Gamma-ray Flares from Blazar B0218+357
C. C. Cheung, S. Larsson, J. D. Scargle +23
Using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), we report the first clear gamma-ray measurement of a delay between flares from the gravitationally lensed images of a blazar.…
Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A
LAT collaboration, GBM collaboration
The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the nature…
The First Pulse of the Extremely Bright GRB 130427A: A Test Lab for Synchrotron Shocks
R. Preece, J. Michael Burgess, A. von Kienlin +156
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine…
Determination of the Point-Spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei
LAT Collaboration
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to detect photons with energies from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV. The pre-laun…
Associating long-term gamma-ray variability with the superorbital period of LS I 61 303
LAT Collaboration
Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamm…
The Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
LAT collaboration
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half…
The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis: A list of flaring gamma-ray sources and the search for transients in our Galaxy
LAT Collaboration
In this paper we present the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool to systematically study the variability of the gamma-ray sky measured by the Large Area Telescope (LA…
White Paper for Blazar Observations with a GEMS-like X-ray Polarimetry Mission
Henric Krawczynski, Lorella Angelini, Matthew Baring +27
In this document, we describe the scientific potential of blazar observations with a X-ray polarimetry mission like GEMS (Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX). We describe five blaz…
Kepler observations of rapid optical variability in the BL Lac object W2R1926+42
R. Edelson, R. Mushotzky, S. Vaughan +4
We present the first Kepler monitoring of a strongly variable BL Lac, W2R1926+42. The light curve covers 181 days with ~0.2% errors, 30 minute sampling and >90% duty cycle, showing…
White Paper on GEMS Study of Polarized X-rays from Neutron Stars
Pranab Ghosh, Lorella Angelini, Matthew Baring +27
We examine the expected X-ray polarization properties of neutron-star X-ray sources of various types, e.g., accretion and rotation powered pulsars, magnetars, and low-mass X-ray bi…
X-ray Polarization from Black Holes: GEMS Scientific White Paper
Jeremy Schnittman, Lorella Angelini, Matthew Baring +27
We present here a summary of the scientific goals behind the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX (GEMS) X-ray polarimetry mission's black hole (BH) observing program. The primary ta…
Fermi LAT Search for Dark Matter in Gamma-ray Lines and the Inclusive Photon Spectrum
LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +117
Dark matter particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic gamma-ray lines and contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray background. Flux upper limits are presented for gamma-r…
Limits on Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with the Fermi-LAT
Bijan Berenji, Elliott Bloom, Johann Cohen-Tanugi
We present limits for the compactification scale in the theory of Large Extra Dimensions (LED) proposed by Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos, and Dvali. We use 11 months of data from the Fe…
Gamma-ray Activity in the Crab Nebula: The Exceptional Flare of April 2011
R. Buehler, J. D. Scargle, R. D. Blandford +18
The Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite observed a gamma-ray flare in the Crab nebula lasting for approximately nine days in April of 2011. The source, which at optic…