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The design of spaceborne high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma-ray detectors depends on two principal factors: (1) the basic physics of detecting and measuring the properties of the gamma rays; and (2) the constraints of operating such a detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 David J. Thompson

Since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on June 11, 2008, 55 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been observed at coordinates that fall within 66^\circ of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) boresight with precise localizations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 C. W. Akerlof , W. Zheng , S. B. Pandey , T. A. McKay

We report the detection of the lunar gamma-ray emission during the first year of Fermi-LAT observations. Such emission is produced by cosmic ray nuclei interacting with the lunar surface. Thanks to the solar minimum conditions and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 N. Giglietto

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. A. Abdo

For over 15 years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has been monitoring the entire high-energy gamma-ray sky, providing the best sampled 0.1 -- $>1$ TeV photons to this day. As a result, the Fermi-LAT has been serving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Janeth Valverde , D. Kocevski , M. Negro , S. Garrappa , A. Brill

Can we learn about New Physics with astronomical and astro-particle data? Since its launch in 2008, the Large Area Telescope, onboard of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has detected the largest amount of gamma rays in the 20 MeV - 300…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Morselli , E. Nuss , G. Zaharijas

We present the detections of 19 solar flares detected in high-energy gamma rays (above 100 MeV) with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first four years of operation. Interestingly, all flares are associated with fairly fast…

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

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), GLAST main instrument, with a wide field of view…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. Nuss

In the first two years since the launch of the Fermi Observatory, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected over 500 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), of which 18 were confidently detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) above 100 MeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Elisabetta Bissaldi

This is the first report of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observations of the quasar 3C 454.3, which has been undergoing pronounced long-term outbursts since 2000. The data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT), covering 2008 July 7 -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

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

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has a point spread function with large tails, consisting of events affected by tracker ineffiencies, inactive volumes, and hard scattering; these tails can make source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-07 Stephen K. N. Portillo , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a powerful pulsar detector, as demonstrated by the over one hundred objects in its second catalog of pulsars. Pass 8 is a new reconstruction and event selection strategy developed by the Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 H. Laffon , D. A. Smith , L. Guillemot

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission, scheduled for launch by NASA in 2007, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jan Conrad

Recent detection of suborbital gamma-ray variability of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is in severe conflict with established models of blazar emission. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Krzysztof Nalewajko

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

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

The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) detection of the X8.2 GOES class solar flare of 2017 September 10 provides for the first time observations of a long duration high-energy gamma-ray flare associated with a Ground Level Enhancement (GLE).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Nicola Omodei , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Francesco Longo , Alice Allafort , Säm Krucker

We present the prospects for a future joint gamma-ray and radio survey of southern hemisphere sources using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the upcoming Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. ASKAP is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Robert A. Cameron

The analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray data in a given Region Of Interest (RoI) usually consists of performing a binned log-likelihood fit in order to determine the sky model that, after convolution with the instrument…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 P. Bruel