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The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observatory is a pair conversion telescope sensitive to gamma-rays over more than four energy decades, between 20 MeV and more than 300 GeV. Acting in synergy with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Nicola Omodei

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

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…

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

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Fermi Large Area Telescope have prompted theoretical advances and posed big challenges in the understanding of such extreme sources, despite the fact that GRB emission above 100 MeV is a fairly rare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 Giacomo Vianello , Nicola Omodei , Fermi/LAT collaboration

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

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 Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has more than doubled the number of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected above 100 MeV within its first year of operation. Thanks to the very wide energy range covered by Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Jonathan Granot

We examine 288 GRBs detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) that fell within the field-of-view of Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT) during the first 2.5 years of observations, which showed no…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 LAT Collaboration , GBM Collaboration

Positive lags between the arrival time of different photon energies are commonly observed in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), where soft photons lag behind harder ones. However, some GRBs exhibit the opposite behavior. In particular, Fermi LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 C. Maraventano , G. Ghirlanda , L. Nava , T. Di Salvo , W. Leone , R. Iaria , L. Burderi , A. Tsvetkova

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument onboard, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics and in particular for the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which are short flashes of -rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Aurelien Bouvier

From the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to July 9, 2010, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) has detected 497 probable GRB events. Twenty-two of these satisfy the simultaneous requirements of an estimated burst direction within…

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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the $Fermi$ spacecraft routinely observes high-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here we present the second catalog of LAT-detected GRBs, covering the first 10 years of operations, from 2008…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 M. Axelsson , E. Bissaldi , N. Omodei , G. Vianello

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board of the Fermi satellite detected emission above 30 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 - 10 MeV. Those bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Beniamini , D. Guetta , E. Nakar , T. Piran

Based on the experience gained during the four and a half years of the mission, the Fermi -LAT collaboration has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the event-level analysis going under the name of Pass 8. Although it is not yet…

The GeV emission of Gamma Ray Bursts, first detected by EGRET in an handful of bursts, is now an established property of roughly the 10% of all bursts, thanks to the Fermi/LAT observations. GRB 090510, a short burst, is particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-19 G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda

The first Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) catalog presented by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) collaboration includes 28 GRBs, detected above 100 MeV over the first three years since the launch of the Fermi mission. However, more than 100 GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-07 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Tristano Di Girolamo , Francesco Longo , Piero Vallania , Carlo Vigorito

High-energy gamma-ray (>GeV) emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is very important in probing the jet evolution and particle acceleration of GRBs. The observations of high-energy photons are limited except for a few very bright GRBs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Shi Chen , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo , Ben-Zhong Dai , He Gao , Bing Zhang

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) was launched on June 11, 2008 and began its first year sky survey on August 11, 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), a wide field-of-view pair-conversion telescope covering the energy range from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-30 Peter F. Michelson , William B. Atwood , Steven Ritz

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
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