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The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a daily quicklook analysis and review of the high-energy gamma-ray sky seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The duty offers alerts for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Ciprini , D. Gasparrini , D. Bastieri , J. Chiang , G. Tosti

The flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3 underwent an extraordinary 5-day gamma-ray outburst in November 2010 where the daily flux measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) at photon energies E>100 MeV reached (66+/-2) x 10^-6 ph…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data have confirmed the pulsed emission from all six high-confidence gamma-ray pulsars previously known from the EGRET observations. We report results obtained from the analysis of 13 months of LAT data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

In March 2010 the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered for the first time >100 MeV gamma-ray emission from a nova within our galaxy, V407 Cyg. The high-energy spectrum and light curve was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. B. Hill

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has made the first definitive GeV detections of the binaries LS I +61^{\circ}303 and LS5039 in the first year after its launch in August 2008. These detections were unambiguous because, apart from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 D. Hadasch

Fermi-LAT >30 MeV observations have increased the number of detected solar flares by almost a factor of 10 with respect to previous space observations. These sample both the impulsive and long duration phases of GOES M and X class flares.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Nicola Omodei , Vahe' Petrosian , Wei Liu , Fatima Rubio da Costa , Alice Allafort

In this paper, we report the first extended GeV $\gamma$-ray emission, at a significant level of $\sim$ 8.13$\sigma$, from the region of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR G317.3-0.2 by analyzing $\sim$ 12.2 years of Fermi Large Area Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Yunchuan Xiang , Zejun Jiang , Yunyong Tang

Since its launch in June 2008, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), onboard the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has greatly added to our understanding of gamma-ray pulsars. Its fine point spread function and large effective area,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Michael Dormody

The gamma-ray sky >100 MeV is dominated by the diffuse emissions from interactions of cosmic rays with the interstellar gas and radiation fields of the Milky Way. Observations of these diffuse emissions provide a tool to study cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 LAT Collaboration

We describe a long-term Swift monitoring program of Fermi gamma-ray sources, particularly the 23 gamma-ray "sources of interest." We present a systematic analysis of the Swift X-ray Telescope light curves and hardness ratios of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Michael C. Stroh , Abe D. Falcone

We report Fermi/LAT observations and broad-band spectral modeling of the radio-loud active galaxy 4C +55.17 (z=0.896), formally classified as a flat-spectrum radio quasar. Using 19 months of all-sky survey Fermi/LAT data, we detect a…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view covering $\sim 1/5$ of the sky and completes a survey of the full sky every ~3 hours. It provides a continuous, all-sky survey of high-energy gamma-rays, enabling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 LAT collaboration

Extraterrestrial gamma-ray astronomy is now a source of new knowledge in the fields of astrophysics, cosmic-ray physics, and the nature of dark matter. The next absolutely necessary step in the development of extraterrestrial high-energy…

We are starting a project to find $\gamma$-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) among the unidentified sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, by radio observations. The selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

We review the high energy properties of Misaligned AGNs associated with gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi in 24 months of survey. Most of them are nearby emission low power radio galaxies (i.e FRIs) which probably have structured jets. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Paola Grandi

Before the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope there were only a handful of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected at high energies (above 100 MeV), while several different suggestions have been made for possible high-energy emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jonathan Granot

We present an incremental version (4FGL-DR4, for Data Release 4) of the fourth Fermi-LAT catalog containing 7194 gamma-ray sources. Based on the first 14 years of science data in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it uses the same…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-25 J. Ballet , P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , B. Lott , The Fermi-LAT collaboration

Forty six gamma-ray pulsars were reported in the First Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars. Over forty more have been seen since then. A simple but effective figure-of-merit for gamma-detectability is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 X. Hou , D. Dumora , M. Lemoine-Goumard , M. -H. Grondin , D. A. Smith

We present a temporal and spectral analysis of the gamma-ray flux from nine of the brightest flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first eight years of operation, with the aim of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-20 Atreya Acharyya , Paula M. Chadwick , Anthony M. Brown

The TANAMI program has been monitoring the parsec-scale radio jets of southern gamma-ray bright AGN with VLBI techniques simultaneously with Fermi/LAT monitoring of their gamma-ray emission. Here we present the gamma-ray properties of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-22 Moritz Boeck , Matthias Kadler , Gino Tosti , Toby Burnett , Roopesh Ojha , Cornelia Mueller , Joern Wilms