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We present the results of our analysis of cosmic-ray electrons using about 8 million electron candidates detected in the first 12 months on-orbit by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This work extends our previously-published cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 Fermi LAT collaboration

We use the GEANT4 Monte Carlo framework to calculate the gamma-ray albedo of the Moon due to interactions of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei with moon rock. Our calculation of the albedo spectrum agrees with the EGRET data. We show that the spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board of the Fermi satellite detected emission above 30 MeV only in a small fraction of the long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) at 8 keV - 10 MeV. Those bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Beniamini , D. Guetta , E. Nakar , T. Piran

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

Apart from the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the only other normal star-forming galaxy that was conclusively detected in high energy (> 100 MeV) gamma rays by the Energetic Gamma Ray Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. A. Porter , J. Knodlseder

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, ex-GLAST) provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It is an adequate telescope to detect transient sources, since the observatory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-25 Sylvain Chaty

The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a quick look and review of the gamma-ray sky observed daily by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The FA-GSW service provides alerts and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefano Ciprini , David J. Thompson

We report on the search for gamma-ray emission from 20 magnetars using 6 years of Fermi, Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. No significant evidence for gamma-ray emission from any of the currently-known magnetars is found. We derived…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Jian Li , Nanda Rea , Diego F. Torres , Emma de Ona-Wilhelmi

We report the Fermi-LAT discovery of high-energy (MeV/GeV) gamma-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at a source significance of over 10 sigma in ten-months of all-sky survey data. Following the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , D. E. Harris , F. Massaro , L. Stawarz

(Abridged) The Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , W. B. Atwood

We report on observations of TeV-selected AGN made during the first 5.5 months of observations with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi). In total, 96 AGN were selected for study, each being…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 S. J. Fegan , D. Sanchez , Fermi LAT Collaboration , : , A. A. Abdo

The advent of Fermi is changing our understanding on the radio and gamma-ray emission in Active Galactic Nuclei. In fact, contrary to previous campaigns, Fermi mission reveals that BL Lac objects are the most abundant emitters in gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-05 E. Liuzzo , B. Boccardi , M. Giroletti , G. Giovannini

We search the Fermi-LAT photon database for an extended gamma-ray emission which could be associated with any of the 581 previously detected gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) visible to the Fermi-LAT. For this purpose we compare the number of photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-08 G. I. Rubtsov , M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov

The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Denys Malyshev , Lars Mohrmann

The Earth's high energy gamma-ray emission is caused by cosmic ray interactions with the atmosphere. The EGRET detector on-board the CGRO satellite is only the second experiment (after SAS-2) to provide a suitable dataset for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dirk Petry

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seem to link them to soft gamma repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Giacomo Principe , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Michela Negro , Francesco Longo

We present the light curves and spectral data of two exceptionally luminous gamma-ray outburts observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) experiment on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope from 3C 273 in September 2009. During these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. A. Abdo et al.

We search for transient gamma-ray emission in the energy range from 0.1-10 GeV using data from the Fermi-LAT telescope in coincidence with magnetar flares. For our analysis, we look for coincidence with 15 distinct flares from 11 magnetars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Vyaas Ramakrishnan , Shantanu Desai

The $\gamma$-ray emission from stars is induced by the interaction of cosmic rays with stellar atmospheres and photon fields. This emission is expected to come in two components: a stellar disk emission, where $\gamma$-rays are mainly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-04 Raniere de Menezes , Elena Orlando , Mattia Di Mauro , Andrew Strong

High-energy gamma-ray (>GeV) emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is very important in probing the jet evolution and particle acceleration of GRBs. The observations of high-energy photons are limited except for a few very bright GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Shi Chen , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo , Ben-Zhong Dai , He Gao , Bing Zhang