WE AIM TO UNVEIL THE NATURE OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS IN UNIDENTIFIED GALACTIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES WITH THE AID OF A COMPREHENSIVE AUTOMATED MULTI-WAVELENGTH (MW) ANALYSIS TOOL WE DEVELOPED. WE WILL FOCUS ON UNIDENTIFIED (UNIDED) GAMMA-RAY SOURCES THAT HAVE BEEN OBSERVED BY CHANDRA AND/OR XMM-NEWTON AND HAVE A GOOD-QUALITY OPTICAL/IR AND RADIO DATA. THERE ARE ABOUT 100 UNIDED MEV/GEV/TEV SOURCES THAT SATISFY OUR CRITERIA AND LIE WITHIN 10 DEGREES FROM THE GALACTIC PLANE. AS THE RESULT OF THIS PROJECT WE EXPECT TO (1) INCREASE THE NUMBER OF IDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES (2) ISOLATE A FRACTION OF GAMMA-RAY SOURCES WITHOUT PLAUSIBLE COUNTERPARTS AT OTHER WAVELENGTHS (E.G. TRANSIENTS) (3) GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE PARTICLE ACCELERATION PROCESSES IN GAMMA-RAY SOURCES (4) CLASSIFY A LARGE NUMBER OF GALACTIC X-RAY SOURCES. WE WILL BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS WITHIN A 2-YEAR PERIOD THANKS TO THE CLASSIFICATION TOOL WE HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED.
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George Washington University (The)