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Since 2008 the Fermi/LAT instrument has delivered highly time-resolved gamma-ray spectra and detailed variability curves for a steadily increasing number of AGN. For detailed AGN studies the Fermi/LAT data have to be combined with, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-05 Lars Fuhrmann

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument on-board, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in the study of high-energy emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). When combined with contemporaneous ground- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 Filippo D'Ammando

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to detect photons with energies from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV. The pre-launch response functions of the LAT were determined through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 LAT Collaboration

Despite the influx of unprecedented-quality data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope that have been collected over nine years of operation, the contribution of normal star-forming galaxies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 I. Komis , V. Pavlidou , A. Zezas

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…

We present the second 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), derived from data taken during the first 24 months of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 LAT Collaboration

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed almost directly at Earth. Blazars are characterized by strong, apparently stochastic flux variability at virtually all observed wavelengths and timescales, from minutes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Aryeh Brill

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a gamma-ray source that is spatially consistent with the location of Eta Carinae. This source has been persistently bright since the beginning of the LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 The Fermi LAT collaboration

In this review the current status of several searches for particle dark matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope instrument is presented. In particular, the current limits on the weakly interacting massive particles, obtained from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 M. N. Mazziotta

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has amassed a large data set of primary cosmic-ray protons throughout its mission. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky survey capabilities make it an excellent instrument for studying cosmic-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-08 LAT Collaboration

We perform two distinct spatio-spectral reconstructions of the gamma-ray sky in the range of 0.56-316 GeV based on Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data. Both describe the sky brightness to be composed of a diffuse-emission and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-13 Lukas I. Platz , Jakob Knollmüller , Philipp Arras , Philipp Frank , Martin Reinecke , Dominik Jüstel , Torsten A. Enßlin

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope routinely detects the highly dust-absorbed, reddened, and MeV-peaked flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1830-211 (z=2.507). Its apparent isotropic gamma-ray luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Allafort , M. A. Amin , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , R. Buehler , D. Bulmash , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , R. H. D. Corbet , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , J. Finke , W. B. Focke , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , R. E. Hughes , Y. Inoue , M. S. Jackson , T. Jogler , G. Jòhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , L. C. Reyes , S. Ritz , C. Romoli , M. Roth , P. M. Saz Parkinson , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , H. Takahashi , Y. Takeuchi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , V. Tronconi , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , M. Werner , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood

Successfully launched in June 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly named GLAST, has been observing the high-energy gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity for more than two years, opening a new window on a wide variety…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Luca Baldini

We report the detection of high-energy gamma rays from the quiescent Sun with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi) during the first 18 months of the mission. These observations correspond to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-08 A. A. Abdo

We present the prospects for a future joint gamma-ray and radio survey of southern hemisphere sources using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the upcoming Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope. ASKAP is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-19 Robert A. Cameron

Over the past 16 years, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has significantly advanced our view of the GeV gamma-ray sky, yet several key questions remain - such as the composition of the isotropic gamma-ray background, the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher Eckner , Noemi Anau Montel , Florian List , Francesca Calore , Christoph Weniger

We present a new method to interpret the $\gamma$-ray data of our inner Galaxy as measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT). We train and test convolutional neural networks with simulated Fermi-LAT images based on models tuned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-29 Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We present an improved background model for the Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) detectors on-board AstroSat. Because of the large collecting area and high pressure, the LAXPC instrument has a large background count rate, which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 H. M. Antia , P. C. Agrawal , Tilak Katoch , R. K. Manchanda , Kallol Mukerjee , Parag Shah

The next large NASA mission in the field of gamma-ray astronomy, GLAST, is scheduled for launch in 2007. Aside from the main instrument LAT (Large-Area Telescope), a gamma-ray telescope for the energy range between 20 MeV and > 100 GeV, a…

Gamma-ray astrophysics depends in many ways on multiwavelength studies. The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has started multiwavelength planning well before the scheduled 2007 launch of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. Reimer , P. F. Michelson , R. A. Cameron , S. W. Digel , D. J. Thompson , K. S. Wood