The Second EGRET Catalog of High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

Session 5 -- Gamma Ray Astronomy
Display presentation, Monday, June 12, 1995, 9:20am - 6:30pm

[5.07] The Second EGRET Catalog of High Energy Gamma-Ray Sources

J.A. Esposito, D.L. Bertsch, B.L. Dingus (USRA), A. Etienne, C.E. Fichtel, D.P. Friedlander, R.C. Hartman, S.D. Hunter, D.J. Kendig (Hughes STX), J.R. Mattox (COSSC/USRA), L.M. McDonald (Hughes STX), C.von Montigny (NAS-NRC), R. Mukherjee (USRA), P.V. Ramanamurthy (NASA-NRC), P. Sreekumar (USRA), D.J. Thompson (NASA/GSFC), J.M. Fierro, Y.C. Lin, P.F. Michelson, P.L. Nolan, S.K. Shriver, T.D. Willis (Stanford), G. Kanbach, H.A. Mayer-Hasselwander, M. Merck (MPI), D.A. Kniffen (Hampden-Sydney), E. Schneid (Northrup Grumman)

The Second Catalog of high energy gamma-ray observations from the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (Thompson et al., 1995) includes data from phases 1 and 2 (April, 1991 through September 1993) of the mission. The catalog lists one hundred twenty-nine high energy gamma-ray sources. Of these sources there are forty high-confidence identifications of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), eleven AGN identifications with lower confidence and five pulsars. Seventy gamma-ray sources remain unidentified. The catalog includes observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud and tables of information pertaining to gamma-ray bursts, solar flares and approximate upper limits for gamma-ray point sources at any point in the sky. Highlights of The Second EGRET Catalog will be presented.

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