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In 2018, the Fermi mission celebrated its first decade of operation. In this time, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been very successful in detecting the high-energy emission (>100 MeV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Magnus Axelsson , Nicola Omodei , Giacomo Vianello

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 present the second catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary science instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), derived from data taken during the first 24 months of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detections of high-energy (>100 MeV) gamma-ray emission from two recent optically bright classical novae, V1369 Centauri 2013 and V5668 Sagittarii 2015. At early times, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 C. C. Cheung , P. Jean , S. N. Shore , L. Stawarz , R. H. D. Corbet , J. Knodlseder , S. Starrfield , D. L. Wood , R. Desiante , F. Longo , G. Pivato , K. S. Wood

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite is observing the gamma-ray sky in the high energy region, above 20 MeV. We have developed a method to reconstruct the energy spectra of the gamma-rays detected by the Fermi LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta

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

The blazar AO 0235+164 (z = 0.94) has been one of the most active objects observed by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since its launch in Summer 2008. In addition to the continuous coverage by Fermi, contemporaneous observations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-13 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , R. Dubois , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , L. Fuhrmann , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , R. E. Hughes , R. Itoh , G. Johannesson , A. S. Johnson , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , S. -H. Lee , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , S. Nishino , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , V. Pelassa , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Raino , R. Rando , D. Rastawicki , M. Razzano , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , L. C. Reyes , J. L. Richards , C. Sbarra , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. Szostek , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , S. Zimmer , R. Moderski , K. Nalewajko , M. Sikora , M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , A. A. Arkharov , E. Benitez , A. Berdyugin , D. A. Blinov , M. Boettcher , O. J. A. Bravo Calle , C. S. Buemi , D. Carosati , W. P. Chen , C. Diltz , A. Di Paola , M. Dolci , N. V. Efimova , E. Forn\' , M. A. Gurwell , J. Heidt , D. Hiriart , B. Jordan , G. Kimeridze , T. S. Konstantinova , E. N. Kopatskaya , E. Koptelova , O. M. Kurtanidze , A. Lahteenmaki , E. G. Larionova , L. V. Larionova , V. M. Larionov , P. Leto , E. Lindfors , H. C. Lin , D. A. Morozova , M. G. Nikolashvili , K. Nilsson , M. Oksman , P. Roustazadeh , A. Sievers , L. A. Sigua , A. Sillanpaa , T. Takahashi , L. O. Takalo , M. Tornikoski , C. Trigilio , I. S. Troitsky , G. Umana , E. Angelakis , T. P. Krichbaum , I. Nestoras , D. Riquelme , M. Krips , S. Trippe , A. Arai , K. S. Kawabata , K. Sakimoto , M. Sasada , S. Sato , M. Uemura , M. Yamanaka , M. Yoshida , T. Belloni , G. Tagliaferri , E. W. Bonning , J. Isler , C. M. Urry , E. Hoversten , A. Falcone , C. Pagani , M. Stroh

FERMI-LAT is performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey from 30 MeV to 300 GeV with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. FERMI has detected high-energy gamma rays from the Moon produced by interactions of cosmic rays with the lunar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Giglietto

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered a rapid (about 5 days duration), high-energy (E >100 MeV) gamma-ray outburst from a source identified with the blazar PKS 1502+106 (OR 103, S3 1502+10,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , the Multifrequency Campaing Collaboration

The Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008, has over 16 years of operations providing gamma ray (8 keV to 300 Gev) spectra science observations of cosmic phenomena. It continues to provide invaluable research for the astrophysics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Wayne Yu , Trevor Williams , Russell Carpenter

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) reported the first definitive GeV detections of the binaries LS I +61\degree 303 and LS 5039 in the first year after its launch in June, 2008. These detections were unambiguous as a consequence of the…

Observations of high energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) constrain the extreme physical conditions associated with these energetic cosmic explosions. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-17 S. B. Pandey , Carl W. Akerlof , W. Zheng , F. Yuan

In eight years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected a large sample of cosmic-ray protons. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky coverage make it an excellent instrument for studying anisotropy in the arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Meehan , Justin Vandenbroucke

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its improved sensitivity relative to previous generation gamma-ray telescopes, is significantly increasing the number of known gamma-ray sources in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 P. M. Saz Parkinson , M. Dormody , M. Ziegler

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

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 Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) provides long term systematic monitoring observations of the gamma-ray emission from blazars. The variability properties and the correlation with other wavelength bands are important clues for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Larsson

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission towards the Galactic centre (GC) in high-energy gamma-rays. This paper describes the analysis of data taken during the first 62 months of the…

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

We report the detection of high-energy gamma rays from the quiescent Sun with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) during the first 18 months of the mission. These observations correspond to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-08 A. A. Abdo

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, 28 TeV AGN were selected for study. The Fermi…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 S. J. Fegan , D. Sanchez