Towards the First Catalog of Fermi-LAT sources below 100 MeV

TL;DR

This paper applies a wavelet-based detection algorithm to identify gamma-ray sources in the 30-100 MeV range using Fermi-LAT data, aiming to create the first catalog of sources below 100 MeV.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of the PGWave wavelet-based detection method to Fermi-LAT data in the 30-100 MeV range, filling a gap in gamma-ray source catalogs.

Findings

Detection of new gamma-ray sources below 100 MeV

Demonstration of PGWave's effectiveness in this energy range

First catalog of sources in the 30-100 MeV band

Abstract

Previous analyses of point sources in the gamma-ray range were done either below 30 MeV or above 100 MeV. Below 30 MeV, the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) onboard NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory detected 26 steady sources in the energy range from 0.75 to 30 MeV. At high energy, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected more than three thousand sources between 100 MeV and 300 GeV. Since the Fermi LAT detects gamma rays also below 100 MeV, we apply a point source detection algorithm in the energy range between 30 MeV and 100 MeV. In the analysis we use PGWave, which is a background independent tool based on a wavelet transform.