Multiwavelength observations of unidentified high energy gamma-ray sources
Abstract
As was the case for COS B, the majority of high-energy (greater than 100 MeV) gamma-ray sources detected by the EGRET instrument on GRO are not immediately identifiable with catalogued objects at other wavelengths. These persistent gamma-ray sources are, next to the gamma-ray bursts, the least understood objects in the universe. This two year investigation is intended to support the analysis, correlation, and theoretical interpretation of data that we are obtaining at x-ray, optical, and radio wavelengths in order to render the gamma-ray data interpretable. This second year was devoted to studies of unidentified gamma-ray sources from the first EGRET catalog, similar to previous observations. Efforts have concentrated on the sources at low and intermediate Galactic latitudes, which are the most plausible pulsar candidates.
- Publication:
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Columbia Univ. Annual Report
- Pub Date:
- May 1995
- Bibcode:
- 1995cuny.reptR....H
- Keywords:
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- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- Gamma Ray Telescopes;
- Gamma Rays;
- Pulsars;
- Radio Astronomy;
- Radio Sources (Astronomy);
- Wavelengths;
- X Ray Astronomy;
- X Ray Spectra;
- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Data Correlation;
- Data Processing;
- Data Reduction;
- Gamma Ray Observatory;
- X Ray Optics;
- Space Radiation