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Following its launch in June 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) began a sky survey in August. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi in 3 months produced a deeper and better-resolved map of the gamma-ray sky than any…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-06 A. A. Abdo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi, launched on 2008 June 11, is a space telescope to explore the high energy gamma-ray universe. The instrument covers the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with greatly improved sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-18 Damien Parent

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 {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been routinely gathering science data since August 2008, surveying the full sky every three hours. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV (1FHL) relied on three years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , D. Gasparrini , S. Cutini

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 30 MeV to more than 300 GeV.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. Ajello , W. B. Atwood , M. Axelsson , R. Bagagli , M. Bagni , L. Baldini , D. Bastieri , F. Bellardi , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , M. Ceccanti , S. Chen , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , I. Cognard , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , F. Dirirsa , N. Di Lalla , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , D. Fabiani , E. C. Ferrara , A. Fiori , G. Foglia , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , S. Griffin , M. -H. Grondin , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , E. Hays , D. Horan , G. Jóhannesson , T. J. Johnson , T. Kamae , M. Kerr , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , M. N. Mazziotta , N. Menon , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , P. F. Michelson , M. Minuti , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. Mongelli , M. E. Monzani , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , A. Paccagnella , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pinchera , F. Piron , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , R. Primavera , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , E. Rapposelli , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. J. Russell , N. Saggini , P. M. Saz Parkinson , N. Scolieri , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , J. G. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , J. Valverde , L. Vigiani , G. Zaharijas

After the launch and successful beginning of operations of the FERMI satellite, the topics related to high-energy observations of gamma-ray bursts have obtained a considerable attention by the scientific community. Undoubtedly, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Covino , M. Garczarczyk , N. Galante , M. Gaug , A. Antonelli , D. Bastieri , S. Campana , F. Longo , V. Scapin

The HAWC observatory recently published their second source catalog with 39 very high energy gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of exposure time. Among these, there were 16 sources that are more than one degree away from any known TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Nahee Park

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched more than 13 years ago and since then it has dramatically changed our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. With more than three billions photons from the whole sky, collected in the energy range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-09 Giacomo Principe

Around 160 gamma-ray pulsars were discovered by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since 2008. The most energetic of them, 12 objects with emission above 25 GeV, are suitable candidates for the detection with the current and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 A. Burtovoi , T. Y. Saito , L. Zampieri , T. Hassan

FERMI-LAT is performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey from 20 MeV to >300 GeV with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. FERMI is the only mission able to detect high energy (>20 MeV) emission from the Sun during the new solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 G. Iafrate , F. Longo , N. Giglietto , M. Brigida

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

VERITAS is an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes designed for very high energy gamma ray (E>100,GeV) observations of astrophysical sources. The experiment began its scientific observation program in the 2006/2007 observing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 M. K. Daniel

The ground-based gamma-ray observatory VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) is sensitive to photons of astrophysical origin with energies in the range between $\approx 85$ GeV to $\approx 30$ TeV. The instrument…

In any given 24-hour period, the Fermi-LAT detects photons with energies of order 100 GeV not associated with any known VHE emitter. The RA/Dec of these photons frequently falls into the field of view of VERITAS the following evening. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 David Staszak

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope started nominal operations on August 13, 2008, after about 60 days of instrument checkout and commissioning and is currently performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 R. Rando

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) having relativistic jets aligned within a few degrees of our line-of-sight and form the majority of the AGN detected in the TeV regime. The Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Atreya Acharyya , Alberto C. Sadun

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

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

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. N. Mazziotta

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 Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the most sensitive instrument ever deployed in space for observing gamma-ray emission >100 MeV. This sensitivity has enabled the LAT to detect gamma-ray emission from the Sun during quiescent periods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-04 N. Omodei , V. Petrosian , M. Pesce-Rollins , the Fermi-LAT Collaboration