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The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite is observing the gamma-ray sky in the high energy region, above 20 MeV. We have developed a method to reconstruct the energy spectra of the gamma-rays detected by the Fermi LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta

The third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) $\gamma$-ray source catalog (3FGL) contains over 1000 objects for which there is no known counterpart at other wavelengths. The physical origin of the $\gamma$-ray emission of those objects is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 F. K. Schinzel , L. Petrov , G. B. Taylor , P. G. Edwards

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray radiation. These advances have been driven by NASA's Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Matthew G. Baring

We report on the \textit{Fermi}-LAT observations of the Geminga pulsar, the second brightest non-variable GeV source in the $\gamma$-ray sky and the first example of a radio-quiet $\gamma$-ray pulsar. The observations cover one year, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

The impact of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on blazar research is reviewed. This includes a brief description of the Fermi Large Area Telescope, a summary of the various classes of extragalactic sources found in the First Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Charles D. Dermer

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been scanning the gamma-ray sky since 2008. The number of pulsars detected by the LAT now exceeds 200, making them by far the largest class of Galactic gamma-ray emitters. I discuss some of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

We apply a number of statistical and machine learning techniques to classify and rank gamma-ray sources from the Third Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Source Catalog (3FGL), according to their likelihood of falling into the two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 P. M. Saz Parkinson , H. Xu , P. L. H. Yu , D. Salvetti , M. Marelli , A. D. Falcone

In its first four years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected 3033 $\gamma$-ray emitting sources. In the Fermi-LAT Third Source Catalogue (3FGL) about 50% of the sources have no clear association with a likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 David Salvetti , Graziano Chiaro , Giovanni La Mura , David J. Thompson

Although not designed primarily as a polarimeter, the \textit{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) has the potential to detect high degrees of linear polarization from some of the brightest gamma-ray sources. To achieve the needed accuracy in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Matteo Giomi , Rolf Bühler , Carmelo Sgrò , Francesco Longo , William Atwood

Solar flares are regularly detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite, however no gamma-ray emission from other stellar eruptions has ever been captured. The Swift detection in April 2014 of a powerful outburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Alan Loh , Stéphane Corbel , Guillaume Dubus

4C+28.07 is a $\gamma$-ray Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) type source. It is often monitored at different frequencies, though long-term multi-wavelength data of this source have not been modelled in detail before. We have analyzed $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Avik Kumar Das , Raj Prince , Nayantara Gupta

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) provides advantages for radio pulsar searches by enabling efficient target selection. We can confidently point radio telescopes to the positions of Fermi unidentified gamma-ray sources that have a high…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board Fermi has detected high-energy gamma rays from the quiet Sun produced by interactions of cosmic-ray nucleons with the solar surface and cosmic-ray electrons with solar photons in the heliosphere. Such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Elena Orlando , Nicola Giglietto

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently reported the detection of pulsed gamma-rays from 6 young pulsars (J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850, and J1718-3825), all exhibiting single-peaked pulse profiles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-23 A. S. Seyffert , C. Venter , O. C. de Jager , A. K. Harding

We report on a detailed investigation of the gamma-ray emission from 18 broad line radio galaxies (BLRGs) based on two years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data. We confirm the previously reported detections of 3C 120 and 3C 111 in the…

The event selection developed for the Fermi Large Area Telescope before launch has been periodically updated to reflect the constantly improving knowledge of the detector and the environment in which it operates. Pass 7, released to the…

The discovery by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi of variable gamma-ray emission from radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies revealed the presence of a possible third class of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti , C. M. Raiteri

We report about the multiwavelength campaign on the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846) performed in 2010 July-September and triggered by high activity as measured by Fermi/LAT. The peak luminosity in the 0.1-100…

We present six-year multi-wavelength monitoring result for broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120. The source was sporadically detected by Fermi-LAT and after the MeV/GeV gamma-ray detection the 43 GHz radio core brightened and a knot ejected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. T. Tanaka , A. Doi , Y. Inoue , C. C. Cheung , L. Stawarz , Y. Fukazawa , M. A. Gurwell , M. Tahara , J. Kataoka , R. Itoh
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