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The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope started nominal operations on August 13, 2008, after about 60 days of instrument checkout and commissioning and is currently performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Rando

Recent advances in the $\gamma$-ray observations of solar flares by the \textit{Fermi} satellite, demand revisions in the hadronic $\gamma$-ray flux computation below 1 GeV. In this work we utilize recently updated pion production cross…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Ervin Kafexhiu , Carlo Romoli , Andrew M. Taylor , Felix Aharonian

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched more than 13 years ago and since then it has dramatically changed our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. With more than three billions photons from the whole sky, collected in the energy range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-09 Giacomo Principe

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, successfully launched on June 11th, 2008, is the next generation satellite experiment for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The main instrument, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), with a wide field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Christine Meurer

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope was launched in June 2008 and the onboard Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been collecting data since August of that same year. The LAT is currently being used to study a wide range of science topics in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 P. D. Smith , R. E. Hughes , B. L. Winer , T. W. Wood

We considered 18 solar flares observed between June 2010 and July 2012, in which high energy >100 MeV {\gamma}-emission was registered by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard FermiGRO. We examined for these {\gamma}-events soft X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Alexei Struminsky , Weiqun Gan

The Fermi 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 from 20…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite has detected ~120 pulsars above 100 MeV. While most gamma-ray pulsars have spectra that are well modeled by a power law with an exponential cut-off at around a few GeV, some show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

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

In three years of observations since the beginning of nominal science operations in August 2008, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy (>20 MeV) \gamma-ray emission from 35…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 LAT Collaboration

For more than one year the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. One of the key science targets of the Fermi mission is diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Luigi Tibaldo

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope regularly surveys the entire sky in the energy range between 0.3 and 100 GeV with an homogeneous coverage. This makes Fermi a very useful guide for ground-based Cherenkov-telescope arrays like VERITAS,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Errando , M. Orr , E. Kara

(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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi satellite detected emission above 20 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-40 MeV. Those bursts that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-08 Dafne Guetta

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 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

Recent studies have found a positive correlation between the star-formation rate of galaxies and their gamma-ray luminosity. Galaxies with a high star-formation rate are expected to produce a large amount of high-energy cosmic rays, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Miguel Araya

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.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , M. Axelsson , R. Bagagli , M. Bagni , L. Baldini , D. Bastieri , F. Bellardi , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , M. Ceccanti , S. Chen , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , I. Cognard , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , F. Dirirsa , N. Di Lalla , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , D. Fabiani , E. C. Ferrara , A. Fiori , G. Foglia , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , S. Griffin , M. -H. Grondin , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , E. Hays , D. Horan , G. Jóhannesson , T. J. Johnson , T. Kamae , M. Kerr , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , M. N. Mazziotta , N. Menon , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , P. F. Michelson , M. Minuti , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. Mongelli , M. E. Monzani , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , A. Paccagnella , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pinchera , F. Piron , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , R. Primavera , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , E. Rapposelli , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. J. Russell , N. Saggini , P. M. Saz Parkinson , N. Scolieri , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , J. G. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , J. Valverde , L. Vigiani , G. Zaharijas

The Fermi observatory, with its Gamma-Ray Bursts monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT), is observing Gamma-ray Bursts with unprecedented spectral coverage and sensitivity, from ~10 keV to > 300 GeV. In the first 3 years of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-27 Giacomo Vianello

We present a search for intraday transient gamma-ray signals using 15.4 years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The search is based on a recently developed variable-size sliding-time-window (VSSTW) analysis and aimed at studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan