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Since more than 6 years, the Fermi gamma-ray telescope operates in scanning mode yielding a new image of the gamma-ray sky every 3 h. Such wealth of high-energy data (all immediately publicly available) has unveiled thousands of gamma-ray sources, steady as well as variable, 1/3 of which lacks even a tentative associations. A number of approaches have been developed exploiting optical surveys, as well as radio observations and readily available X-ray data. The gamma-ray sky provides also plenty of surprises which call for rapid multiwavelength response.
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Caraveo, P.A. (2016). Fermi Continuous Survey of the High-Energy Sky and Its Serendipitous Results. In: Napolitano, N., Longo, G., Marconi, M., Paolillo, M., Iodice, E. (eds) The Universe of Digital Sky Surveys. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 42. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19330-4_44
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