Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2021-09-07 v3
Abstract
The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 30 MeV to more than 300 GeV. We describe the performance of the instrument at the 10-year milestone. LAT performance remains well within the specifications defined during the planning phase, validating the design choices and supporting the compelling case to extend the duration of the Fermi mission. The details provided here will be useful when designing the next generation of high-energy gamma-ray observatories.
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@article{arxiv.2106.12203,
title = {Fermi Large Area Telescope Performance After 10 Years Of Operation},
author = {The Fermi LAT Collaboration and M. Ajello and W. B. Atwood and M. Axelsson and R. Bagagli and M. Bagni and L. Baldini and D. Bastieri and F. Bellardi and R. Bellazzini and E. Bissaldi and E. D. Bloom and R. Bonino and J. Bregeon and A. Brez and P. Bruel and R. Buehler and S. Buson and R. A. Cameron and P. A. Caraveo and E. Cavazzuti and M. Ceccanti and S. Chen and C. C. Cheung and S. Ciprini and I. Cognard and J. Cohen-Tanugi and S. Cutini and F. D'Ammando and P. de la Torre Luque and F. de Palma and S. W. Digel and F. Dirirsa and N. Di Lalla and L. Di Venere and A. Domínguez and D. Fabiani and E. C. Ferrara and A. Fiori and G. Foglia and Y. Fukazawa and P. Fusco and F. Gargano and D. Gasparrini and M. Giroletti and T. Glanzman and D. Green and S. Griffin and M. -H. Grondin and J. E. Grove and L. Guillemot and S. Guiriec and M. Gustafsson and E. Hays and D. Horan and G. Jóhannesson and T. J. Johnson and T. Kamae and M. Kerr and M. Kuss and S. Larsson and L. Latronico and M. Lemoine-Goumard and J. Li and I. Liodakis and F. Longo and F. Loparco and M. N. Lovellette and P. Lubrano and S. Maldera and A. Manfreda and G. Martí-Devesa and M. N. Mazziotta and N. Menon and I. Mereu and M. Meyer and P. F. Michelson and M. Minuti and W. Mitthumsiri and T. Mizuno and M. Mongelli and M. E. Monzani and I. V. Moskalenko and M. Negro and E. Nuss and R. Ojha and M. Orienti and E. Orlando and A. Paccagnella and V. S. Paliya and D. Paneque and Z. Pei and J. S. Perkins and M. Pesce-Rollins and M. Pinchera and F. Piron and H. Poon and T. A. Porter and R. Primavera and G. Principe and J. L. Racusin and S. Rainò and R. Rando and B. Rani and E. Rapposelli and M. Razzano and S. Razzaque and A. Reimer and O. Reimer and J. J. Russell and N. Saggini and P. M. Saz Parkinson and N. Scolieri and D. Serini and C. Sgrò and E. J. Siskind and D. A. Smith and G. Spandre and P. Spinelli and D. J. Suson and H. Tajima and J. G. Thayer and D. J. Thompson and L. Tibaldo and D. F. Torres and G. Tosti and J. Valverde and L. Vigiani and G. Zaharijas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.12203},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
60 pages, 28 figures. Published in ApJS