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The contribution of unresolved sources to the diffuse gamma-ray background could produce anisotropies in this emission on small angular scales. Recent studies have considered the angular power spectrum and other anisotropy metrics as tools…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

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

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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi has detected ~150 gamma-ray pulsars, about a third of which were discovered in blind searches of the $\gamma$-ray data. Because the angular resolution of the LAT is relatively poor and blind searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 P. M. Saz Parkinson , A. Belfiore , P. Caraveo , A. De Luca , M. Marelli

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion detector designed to study the gamma-ray sky in the energy range 30 MeV to 300 GeV. Fermi has detected high-energy gamma rays…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Elena Orlando

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

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

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

Gamma rays measured by the Fermi-LAT satellite tell us a lot about the processes taking place in high-energetic astrophysical objects. The fluxes coming from these objects are, however, extremely variable. Hence, gamma-ray light curves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Theo Glauch , Kristian Tchiorniy

We present a catalog of high-energy gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary science instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi), during the first 11 months of the science phase of the mission,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT Collaboration

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Gamma-ray observations give us a direct view into the most extreme environments of the universe. They help us to study astronomical particle accelerators as supernovae remnants, pulsars, active galaxies or gamma-ray bursts and help us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-18 Rolf Buehler

Since 2008 August the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided continuous coverage of the gamma-ray sky yielding more than 5000 gamma-ray sources, but 54% of the detected sources remain with no certain or unknown association with a low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-01 Chiaro G. , Kovacevic M. , La Mura G

The Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) will significantly augment the science return from the Fermi Observatory in the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The primary objective of GBM is to extend the energy range over which bursts are observed…

The analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray data in a given Region Of Interest (RoI) usually consists of performing a binned log-likelihood fit in order to determine the sky model that, after convolution with the instrument…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 P. Bruel

The past decade has presented a revolution in the field of observational high energy gamma-ray astrophysics with the advent of a new generation in ground-based TeV telescopes and subsequent GeV space telescopes. The Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Adam B. Hill , Richard Dubois , Diego F. Torres

For the first time, the Fermi-LAT measured the angular power spectrum (APS) of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background. The data is found to be broadly compatible with a model with contributions from the point sources in the 1-year…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mattia Fornasa , Jesus Zavala , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Francisco Prada , Mark Vogelsberger

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Sylvain Chaty

Fermi LAT (Large Area Telescope) and GBM (Gamma ray Burst Monitor) observations of GRBs are briefly reviewed, keeping in mind EGRET expectations. Using gamma\gamma constraints on outflow Lorentz factors, leptonic models are pitted against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Charles D. Dermer

We present a likelihood profile stacking technique based on the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data to explore the $\gamma$-ray characteristics of {\it Fermi}-LAT undetected astrophysical populations. The pipeline is applied to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-10 Vaidehi S. Paliya , Alberto Dominguez , Marco Ajello , Anna Franckowiak , Dieter Hartmann