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Fermi All-Sky Variability Analysis Second Catalog of Flaring Gamma-Ray Sources
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The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA) is an analysis technique that searches for flaring sources in data collected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
Description
It uses a photometric approach to blindly search for flares over the entire sky, and a likelihood analysis to precisely locate them and to measure their spectra. This catalog contains the flares and sources detected by running FAVA over the first 7.4 years of Fermi mission, from Modified Julian Date (MJD) 54682 (2008-08-04) to 57391 (2016-01-04).
The analysis has been run in weekly time bins and in two independent energy bands, 100-800 MeV and 0.8-300 GeV. The detection threshold applied to the catalog flares is equivalent to 6 sigma (pre trials). The sources in the 2FAV are identified as clusters of flares.
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Their position and the corresponding error are derived from a weighted average of the best localized flares in the cluster. Likely gamma-ray counterparts, based on positional coincidence, are provided for the sources. This database table was first ingested by the HEASARC in July 2017 using electronic data obtained from the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC).
That data is available at <a href="fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/lat/fava_catalog/">http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/lat/fava_catalog/</a>. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Get the data
- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/fermi2favs.html ↗
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- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets=&table=fermi2favs ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/fermi-all-sky-variability-analysis-second-catalog-of-f… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=406d76af-9558-4e3d-bdfe-1b7ae06d0… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
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- Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
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| NASA Data Portal | 406d76af-9558-4e3d-bdfe-1b7ae06d0e84 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
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| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |