Historical Fermi All-Sky Variability Analysis of Galactic Flares
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| author | Joffre, Scott D. Torres-Albà, Núria Ajello, Marco Kocevski, Daniel Buehler, Rolf |
| author_facet | Joffre, Scott D. Torres-Albà, Núria Ajello, Marco Kocevski, Daniel Buehler, Rolf |
| contents | The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA) provides a photometric alternative for identifying week-long gamma-ray flares across the entire sky while being independent of any diffuse Galactic or isotropic emission model. We reviewed 779 weeks of Fermi-LAT data analyzed by FAVA to estimate the rate and origin of Galactic gamma-ray flares, and to search for new variable Galactic gamma-ray transients. We report an estimated yearly rate of ~8.5 Galactic gamma-ray flares/year with ~1 flare/year coming from unknown sources. Out of the known gamma-ray sources that are spatially coincident with these detected flares, we report gamma-ray flares for six of them for the first time. All six are classified as pulsars, or a source of unknown nature but which positionally overlaps with known supernova remnants or pulsar wind nebulae. This potentially means these sites are tentative candidates to be the second known site of a variable gamma-ray pulsar wind nebula (PWN), after the famous Crab Nebula's PWN. Additionally, we identify 9 unassociated flares that are unlikely to have originated from known gamma-ray sources. |
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| spellingShingle | Historical Fermi All-Sky Variability Analysis of Galactic Flares Joffre, Scott D. Torres-Albà, Núria Ajello, Marco Kocevski, Daniel Buehler, Rolf High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA) provides a photometric alternative for identifying week-long gamma-ray flares across the entire sky while being independent of any diffuse Galactic or isotropic emission model. We reviewed 779 weeks of Fermi-LAT data analyzed by FAVA to estimate the rate and origin of Galactic gamma-ray flares, and to search for new variable Galactic gamma-ray transients. We report an estimated yearly rate of ~8.5 Galactic gamma-ray flares/year with ~1 flare/year coming from unknown sources. Out of the known gamma-ray sources that are spatially coincident with these detected flares, we report gamma-ray flares for six of them for the first time. All six are classified as pulsars, or a source of unknown nature but which positionally overlaps with known supernova remnants or pulsar wind nebulae. This potentially means these sites are tentative candidates to be the second known site of a variable gamma-ray pulsar wind nebula (PWN), after the famous Crab Nebula's PWN. Additionally, we identify 9 unassociated flares that are unlikely to have originated from known gamma-ray sources. |
| title | Historical Fermi All-Sky Variability Analysis of Galactic Flares |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07994 |