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We describe the optical spectropolarimetric monitoring program at Steward Observatory centered around gamma-ray-bright blazars and the LAT Monitored Source List planned for Fermi Cycles 2-4. The large number of measurements made during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 P. S. Smith , E. Montiel , S. Rightley , J. Turner , G. D. Schmidt , B. T. Jannuzi

The sheer number of new gamma-ray pulsar discoveries by the Fermi Large Area Telescope since 2008, combined with the quality of new multi-frequency data, has caused a revolution in the field of high-energy rotation-powered pulsars. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding , Isabelle Grenier

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on board the Fermi satellite consists of a multi-layer silicon-strip tracker interleaved with tungsten converters (TKR), followed by a CsI crystal hodoscopic calorimeter (CAL). Sixteen TKR and CAL…

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

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) can detect disturbances in the fabric of spacetime on a galactic scale by monitoring the arrival time of pulses from millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Recent advancements have enabled the use of $\gamma$-ray radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-14 Hoang Nhan Luu , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Tom Broadhurst , Ruizhi Yang , Jie-Shuang Wang , Zhen Xie

Designed to be a successor of the previous flown space based gamma ray detectors, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is also an electron detector. Taking advantage of its capability to separate electromagnetic and hadronic signals it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Melissa Pesce-Rollins

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view covering $\sim 1/5$ of the sky and completes a survey of the full sky every ~3 hours. It provides a continuous, all-sky survey of high-energy gamma-rays, enabling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 LAT collaboration

Very high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as SNRs, pulsars and pulsar wind nebulae, AGN, gamma-ray binaries, molecular clouds, and possibly star-forming regions as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-19 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

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

Very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-rays have been detected from a wide range of astronomical objects, such as pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe), supernova remnants (SNRs), giant molecular clouds, gamma-ray binaries, the Galactic Center,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 P. H. Thomas Tam , Stefan Wagner , Omar Tibolla , Ryan Chaves

The wealth of high-energy (E > 50 MeV) and very-high-energy (E > 100 GeV) data accumulated over the past few years have provided unprecedented opportunities to probe pulsar emission models. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has now…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-03 Christo Venter

The brightest blazars detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) show significant breaks in their spectra at a few GeV. The sharpness and the position of the breaks can be well reproduced by absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-08 Juri Poutanen , Boris E. Stern

The gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. J. Thompson

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…

The \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) discovered a new gamma-ray source near the Galactic plane, \object{Fermi J0109+6134}, when it flared brightly in 2010 February. The low Galactic latitude (b =-1.2\degr) indicated that the source…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has revolutionised the $\gamma$-ray pulsar field, increasing the population to over 250 detected pulsars. The majority display spectra with exponential cutoffs in a narrow range around a few GeV. Models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-22 M. Barnard

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Gamma-ray Large-Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is a pair-conversion gamma-ray detector designed to explore the gamma-ray universe in the 20 MeV-300 GeV energy band. The Tracker subsystem of the LAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hiroyasu Tajima , for GLAST Tracker Team

Since its launch in 2008 the Fermi Large Area Telescope provides regular monitoring of a large sample of gamma-ray sources on time scales from hours to years. Together with observations at other wavelengths it is now possible to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-09 Stefan Larsson

In this thesis a measurement of the high energy $\gamma$-ray flux between 200 MeV and 1 TeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is presented. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) is a multi-purpose particle detector mounted externally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-17 Bastian Beischer

We are starting a project to find $\gamma$-ray millisecond pulsars (MSPs) among the unidentified sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the {Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi)}, by radio observations. The selection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Xuejie Dai , Zhongxiang Wang , Jithesh Vadakkumthani

Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data analyses based on event reconstruction and classification are so far restricted to events of measured energy larger than 100 MeV. We present a new technique to recover the signal from Gamma-Ray Bursts'…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Pelassa , R. Preece , F. Piron , N. Omodei , S. Guiriec