The Fermi Large Area Telescope
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2023-05-24 v2
Abstract
The Large Area Telescope, the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is an imaging, wide field-of-view gamma-ray telescope. After many improvements to the data acquisition and event analysis procedures, it now covers the broad energy range from MeV to TeV. After more than 13 years of operation since its launch in June 11, 2008, it has provided the best-resolved and deepest portrait of the gamma-ray sky. In this chapter we review the design of the instrument, the data acquisition system, calibration, and performance.
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@article{arxiv.2208.13635,
title = {The Fermi Large Area Telescope},
author = {R. Rando},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.13635},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
30 pages, 11 figures; Invited chapter for Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics (Eds. C. Bambi and A. Santangelo, Springer Singapore, expected in 2022)