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We present here the current status of pulsar simulations for the Large Area Telescope, the main instrument on the GLAST mission. We present "PulsarSpectrum", a pulsar simulator that can reproduce with high detail gamma-ray emission from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Razzano

We report on observations of BL Lacertae during the first 18 months of Fermi-LAT science operations and present results from a 48-day multifrequency coordinated campaign from 2008 August 19 to 2008 October 7. The radio to gamma-ray behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 A. A. Abdo

With its excellent sensitivity, large field of view, broad energy coverage, and good per-photon angular resolution, the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite provides us with an unprecedented view of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Jürgen Knödlseder

A handedness in the arrival directions of high-energy photons from outside our Galaxy can be related to the helicity of an intergalactic magnetic field. Previous estimates by arXiv:1310.4826 and arXiv:1412.3171 showed a hint of a signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-31 Julia Asplund , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Axel Brandenburg

We present results of a study of the localization capability of Fermi-LAT, using a large set of blazars with precise radio locations. Since the width of the PSF decreases with energy, the performance is typically dominated by a few high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 T. H. Burnett , M. Kerr , M. Roth

The Fermi-LAT has observed new gamma-ray flares from the blazar B0218+357 during July 2014. While no significant change in the gamma-ray spectrum has been previously observed through the flaring phase in late-2012, during this recent high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 S. Buson , C. C. Cheung , S. Larsson , J. D. Scargle

At least a fraction of Gravitational Wave (GW) progenitors are expected to emit an electromagnetic (EM) signal in the form of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB). Discovering such a transient EM counterpart is challenging because the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Giacomo Vianello , Nicola Omodei , James Chiang , Seth Digel

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has amassed a large data set of primary cosmic-ray protons throughout its mission. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky survey capabilities make it an excellent instrument for studying cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-08 LAT Collaboration

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

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

The detection of gamma-ray emission by Fermi-LAT from the radio loud Narrow Line Seyfert 1 PMN J0948+0022 (Abdo et al. 2009, ApJ 699, 976) triggered a multi-wavelength campaign between March and July 2009. Given its high compactness (Doi et…

The Second Fermi LAT source catalog (Nolan et al. 2012) includes as many as 1,873 sources, but initial attempts to identify counterparts at other wavelengths resulted in 575 sources remaining unidentified. The 2FGL catalog is based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Masaki Nishimichi , Takeshi Okuda , Masaki Mori , Philip G. Edwards , Jamie Stevens

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray data from the region of the Galactic Center has been collected by the LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper we argue that it may be able to provide an unambiguous evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Leszek Roszkowski , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

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

We perform a comprehensive stacking analysis of data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) localized by the Swift spacecraft, which were not detected by the LAT but which fell within the instrument's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-10 LAT Collaboration

The GLAST mission to be launched in November 2007 will provide unique information about high energy photon fluxes from gamma-ray bursts. These data will be most useful when combined with multiwavelength observations that provide more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Carl W. Akerlof , Fang Yuan

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

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

Previous analyses of point sources in the gamma-ray range were done either below 30 MeV or above 100 MeV. Below 30 MeV, the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) onboard NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory detected 26 steady sources in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-09 Giacomo Principe , Dmitry Malyshev , Stefan Funk

Since it is not possible to predict when a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) will occur or when Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) flaring activity starts, follow-up/monitoring ground telescopes must be located as uniformly as possible all over the world in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 T. Sakamoto , C. A. Wallace , D. Donato , N. Gehrels , T. Okajima , T. N. Ukwatta