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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

Since its launch in 2008, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allowed us to peek into the extremely energetic side of the Universe with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. The tools available for analyzing Fermi-LAT data are the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-24 Raniere de Menezes

DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control) is a general framework for the management of tasks over distributed heterogeneous computing environments. It has been originally developed to support the production activities of…

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

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

Four years into the mission, the understanding of the performance of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and data analysis have increased enormously since launch. Thanks to a careful analysis of flight data, we were able to trace back some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 J. Bregeon , E. Charles , M. Wood

With the advent of the Large Array Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite, a new window on the Universe has been opened. Publicly available, the Fermi-LAT data come together with an analysis software named ScienceTools (ST,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 D. A. Sanchez , C. Deil

Fermipy is an open-source python framework that facilitates analysis of data collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Fermipy is built on the Fermi Science Tools, the publicly available software suite provided by NASA for the LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Wood , Regina Caputo , Eric Charles , Mattia Di Mauro , Jeffrey Magill , Jeremy Perkins

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 Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on 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 20…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 LAT Collaboration

The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Denys Malyshev , Lars Mohrmann

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope was launched in June 2008 and the onboard Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been collecting data since August of that same year. The LAT is currently being used to study a wide range of science topics in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 P. D. Smith , R. E. Hughes , B. L. Winer , T. W. Wood

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 Gamma-Ray Space Telescope was launched in June 2008 and the onboard Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been collecting data since August of that same year. The LAT is currently being used to study a wide range of science topics in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 P. D. Smith , R. E. Hughes , B. L. Winer , T. W. Wood

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…

Detailed simulations of the gamma-ray sky played an important role before the launch of Fermi. Pre-launch simulation campaigns aided the development of new analysis tools and the assessment of the expected Fermi-LAT science performance.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Razzano

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission towards the Galactic centre (GC) in high-energy gamma-rays. This paper describes the analysis of data taken during the first 62 months of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope regularly surveys the entire sky in the energy range between 0.3 and 100 GeV with an homogeneous coverage. This makes Fermi a very useful guide for ground-based Cherenkov-telescope arrays like VERITAS,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Errando , M. Orr , E. Kara

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on--board the Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope began its on--orbit operations on June 23, 2008. Calibrations, defined in a generic sense, correspond to synchronization of trigger signals, optimization of delays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

(Abridged) The Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , W. B. Atwood
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