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We use joint observations by the Neil Gehrels Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows to investigate the nature of the long-lived high-energy emission observed by Fermi LAT.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

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), 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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events at cosmological distances. They provide unique laboratory to investigate fundamental physical processes under extreme conditions. Due to extreme luminosities, GRBs are detectable at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Poonam Chandra

In the work we search for the $\gamma$-ray signal from M33, one of the biggest galaxies in the Local Group, by using the Pass 8 data of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). No statistically significant gamma-ray emission has been detected in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 Fu Lei , Xia Zi-qing , Shen Zhao-qiang

The statistical distribution of energies among particles responsible for long Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) emission is analyzed in light of recent results of the Fermi Observatory. The allsky flux, $F_{\gamma}$, recorded by the Gamma Ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 David Eichler , Dafne Guetta , Martin Pohl

Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fall below the trigger threshold of GRB detectors, and thus are…

The Gamma ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been providing continuous data to the astronomical community since 2008 August 12. We will present the results of the analysis of the first three years of these…

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 T. A. Porter

GRB 220627A, detected by Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), shows two episodes of gamma-ray emission, which are separated by a {$\sim$700} s long quiescent phase. Due to similar temporal shapes and spectra in the two episodes, GRB 220627A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-29 Yi-Yun Huang , Hai-Ming Zhang , Kai Yan , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

For more than one year the Fermi Large Area Telescope has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. One of the key science targets of the Fermi mission is diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Luigi Tibaldo

Possibly the only unambiguous verification that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are at cosmological distances would be the observation of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed burst. Each images would arrive at a different time, but exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. A. Grossman , M. A. Nowak

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data have confirmed the pulsed emission from all six high-confidence gamma-ray pulsars previously known from the EGRET observations. We report results obtained from the analysis of 13 months of LAT data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite has detected ~120 pulsars above 100 MeV. While most gamma-ray pulsars have spectra that are well modeled by a power law with an exponential cut-off at around a few GeV, some show…

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

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

GRB 090902B, detected by Fermi Large Array Telescope (Fermi/LAT), shows extend high-energy emission (>100 MeV) up to 10^3 s after the burst, which decays with time in a power-law as t^{-1.5}. It has been also observed by several follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

We report on the detailed analysis of the high-energy extended emission from the short Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) 081024B, detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Historically, this represents the first clear detection of temporal…

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

We use nine years of gamma-ray data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to systematically study the light curves of more than two thousand active galactic nuclei (AGN) included in recent Fermi-LAT catalogs. Ten different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 P. Peñil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , J. Otero-Santos , J. A. Barrio , R. Nemmen , S. Cutini , B. Rani , A. Franckowiak , E. Cavazzuti

We present the analysis of 2.1 years of Fermi/LAT data on 491 Seyfert galaxies detected by the Swift/BAT survey. Only the two nearest objects, NGC 1068 and NGC 4945, which were identified in the Fermi First-year Catalog, are detected. Using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Stacy H. Teng , Richard F. Mushotzky , Rita M. Sambruna , David S. Davis , Christopher S. Reynolds

We present gamma-ray observations with the LAT on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus~A. The previous EGRET detection is confirmed, and the localization is improved using data from the first 10 months of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Fermi Collaboration , A. Falcone , H. Hase , C. Pagoni , C. Ploetz