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Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \textit{Fermi} mission of diffuse $\gamma$-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude $l$ from $200\arcdeg$ to $260\arcdeg$ and latitude $| b |$ from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 A. A. Abdo

In eight years of operation, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected a large sample of cosmic-ray protons. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky coverage make it an excellent instrument for studying anisotropy in the arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthew Meehan , Justin Vandenbroucke

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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite is the first gamma-ray instrument to discover pulsars directly via their gamma-ray emission. Roughly one third of the 117 gamma-ray pulsars detected by the LAT in its first three years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is currently celebrating its 15th anniversary of operation. Since its launch, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT), the main instrument onboard the Fermi satellite, has remarkably unveiled the sky at GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Giacomo Principe

Models of quantum gravity suggest that the vacuum should be regarded as a medium with quantum structure that may have non-trivial effects on photon propagation, including the violation of Lorentz invariance. Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-24 John Ellis , Rostislav Konoplich , Nikolaos E. Mavromatos , Linh Nguyen , Alexander S. Sakharov , Edward K. Sarkisyan-Grinbaum

In three years of observations since the beginning of nominal science operations in August 2008, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy (>20 MeV) \gamma-ray emission from 35…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 LAT Collaboration

The Sun and the Moon are quiescent gamma-ray sources that are clearly detectable in Fermi-LAT data. While moving through the sky, the Sun and the Moon can be a significant background in the analysis of Fermi-LAT data if they pass through…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Gudlaugur Johannesson , Elena Orlando

We report on measurements of the cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission of Earth's atmosphere by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT has observed the Earth during its commissioning phase and with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 LAT collaboration

A handedness in the arrival directions of high-energy photons from outside our Galaxy can be related to the helicity of an intergalactic magnetic field. Previous estimates by arXiv:1310.4826 and arXiv:1412.3171 showed a hint of a signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-31 Julia Asplund , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Axel Brandenburg

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

Observation of gamma-rays from dwarf galaxies is an effective way to search for particle dark matter. Using 4-year data of Fermi-LAT observations on a series of Milky Way satellites, we develop a general way to search for the signals from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan , Xiaoyuan Huang

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 (\Fermi) shows long-lasting high-energy emission in many gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), similar to X-ray afterglows observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its improved sensitivity relative to previous generation gamma-ray telescopes, is significantly increasing the number of known gamma-ray sources in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 P. M. Saz Parkinson , M. Dormody , M. Ziegler

For over 15 years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has been monitoring the entire high-energy gamma-ray sky, providing the best sampled 0.1 -- $>1$ TeV photons to this day. As a result, the Fermi-LAT has been serving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Janeth Valverde , D. Kocevski , M. Negro , S. Garrappa , A. Brill

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray data from the region of the Galactic Center has been collected by the LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper we argue that it may be able to provide an unambiguous evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Leszek Roszkowski , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Indirect searches for dark matter using dwarf spheroidal galaxies are limited by systematic uncertainties in modeling diffuse gamma-ray backgrounds. We present a likelihood-based comparison of locally constructed empirical background models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 Chance Hoskinson , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

The Fermi satellite has a particular motion during its flight which enables it to catch the gamma-ray bursts mostly well. The side-effect of this favourable feature is that the lightcurves of the GBM detectors are stressed by rapidly and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-14 Dorottya Szecsi , Zsolt Bagoly , Istvan Horvath , Lajos G. Balazs , Peter Veres , Attila Meszaros

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seem to link them to soft gamma repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Giacomo Principe , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Michela Negro , Francesco Longo