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The sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allows detection of thousands of new gamma-ray sources and detailed characterization of the spectra and variability of bright sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Matthew Kerr

We present a multi-wavelength study of the FSRQ CTA 102 using Fermi-LAT and simultaneous Swift-XRT/UVOT observations. The Fermi-LAT telescope detected one of the brightest flares from this object during Sep, 2016 to Mar, 2017. In the 190…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Raj Prince , Gayathri Raman , Joachim Hahn , Nayantara Gupta , Pratik Majumdar

According to radiative models, radio galaxies are predicted to produce gamma-rays from the earliest stages of their evolution onwards. The study of the high-energy emission from young radio sources is crucial for providing information on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 Giacomo Principe , Leonardo Di Venere , Giulia Migliori , Monica Orienti , Filippo D'Ammando

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 and Sun since the first weeks of data taking. This…

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

The parsec-scale radio properties of 232 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), most of which are blazars, detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , F. K. Schinzel

Radio galaxies are uncommon $\gamma$-ray emitters, and only low redshift radio galaxies are detected with Fermi-LAT. However, they offer potential insights into the emission mechanisms of active galaxies, particularly as the alignment of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-17 Max Harvey , Cameron B. Rulten , Paula M. Chadwick

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is designed to enhance the scientific return from Fermi in studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In its first two years of operation GBM triggered on 491 GRBs. We summarize the criteria used for…

We search for the long-term variability of the \gamma-ray sky in the energy range E > 1 GeV with 168 weeks of Fermi-LAT data. We perform a full sky blind search for regions with variable flux looking for deviations from uniformity. We bin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

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

Cosmic rays (CRs) can be studied through the galaxy-wide gamma-ray emission that they generate when propagating in the interstellar medium. The comparison of the diffuse signals from different systems may inform us about the key parameters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-10 LAT collaboration

The Fermi LAT has opened the way for comparative studies of cosmic rays (CRs) and high-energy objects in the Milky Way (MW) and in other, external, star-forming galaxies. Using 2 yr of observations with the Fermi LAT, local Group galaxy M31…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-01 LAT Collaboration

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

The fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog (4FGL) contains 5064 $\gamma$-ray sources detected at high significance, but 26% of them still lack associations at other wavelengths. The SPT-SZ survey, conducted between 2008 and 2011…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Lizhong Zhang , Joaquin D. Vieira , Marco Ajello , Matthew A. Malkan , Melanie A. Archipley , Joseph Capota , Allen Foster , Greg Madejski

The binary system eta Carinae has completed its first 5.54y orbit since the beginning of science operation of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). We are now able to investigate the high-energy gamma-ray source at the position of eta…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Reitberger , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , H. Takahashi

Since its launch in 2008 June, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics. The unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and effective area of the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi, together…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) 3FHL catalog is the latest catalog of >10 GeV sources and will remain an important resource for the high-energy community for the foreseeable future. Therefore, it is crucial that this catalog is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Ross Silver , Stefano Marchesi , Lea Marcotulli , Aman Kaur , Meenakshi Rajagopal , Marco Ajello

We describe an image-based method that uses two radio criteria, compactness and spectral index, to identify promising pulsar candidates among Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unassociated sources. These criteria are applied to those radio…

The nature of most of the ~300 high-energy gamma-ray sources discovered by the EGRET instrument aboard the Gamma-ray Observatory (GRO) between 1991 and 1999 is one of the greatest enigmas in high-energy astrophysics. While about half of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-02-05 R. P. Mignani

The LAT instrument on the Fermi mission will reveal the rich spectral and temporal gamma-ray burst phenomena in the > 100 MeV band. The synergy with Fermi's GBM detectors will link these observations to those in the well explored 10-1000…

We considered the fourth catalog of gamma-ray point sources produced by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and selected only jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) or sources with no specific classification, but with a low-frequency…

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