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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 Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched more than 13 years ago and since then it has dramatically changed our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. With more than three billions photons from the whole sky, collected in the energy range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-09 Giacomo Principe

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

Since its successful launch in June 2008, the {\it Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made important breakthroughs in the understanding of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) phenomemon. The combination of the GBM and the LAT instruments onboard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Frederic Piron , Valerie Connaughton

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 David J. Thompson , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, successfully launched on June 11th, 2008, is the next generation satellite experiment for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The main instrument, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), with a wide field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Christine Meurer

The Large Area Telescope, the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is an imaging, wide field-of-view gamma-ray telescope. After many improvements to the data acquisition and event analysis procedures, it now covers the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 R. Rando

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

In the last decade, neutrino astronomy has taken off with two major breakthroughs, the first observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013 and the first evidence for gamma-rays and neutrinos from a single object published in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Gwenhaël de Wasseige

During its first three years of operation, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided an unprecedented view of the high energy gamma-ray sky, and also performed direct measurements of the cosmic-ray leptons and searches for signals…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 L. Baldini , L. Tibaldo

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

With its excellent sensitivity, large field of view, broad energy coverage, and good per-photon angular resolution, the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite provides us with an unprecedented view of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Jürgen Knödlseder

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

The Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008, has over 16 years of operations providing gamma ray (8 keV to 300 Gev) spectra science observations of cosmic phenomena. It continues to provide invaluable research for the astrophysics…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Wayne Yu , Trevor Williams , Russell Carpenter

The gamma-ray survey of the sky by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope offers both opportunities and challenges for multiwavelength and multi-messenger studies. Gamma-ray bursts, pulsars, binary sources, flaring Active Galactic Nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 D. J. Thompson

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 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly known as Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, GLAST) was successfully launched on June 11 2008. Its main instrument is the Large Area Telescope (LAT), which detects gamma rays from 20 MeV to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Philippe Bruel

In over two years of operation Fermi-LAT has revolutionized our knowledge of the gamma-ray sky. Interstellar gamma rays are part of this new era and allow unprecedented tests for models of cosmic rays in the Galaxy. The extension to lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 A. W. Strong

The Large Area Telescope on the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its large field of view and effective area, combined with its excellent timing capabilities, is poised to revolutionize the field of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 P. M. Saz Parkinson
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