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The Fermi-LAT has observed new gamma-ray flares from the blazar B0218+357 during July 2014. While no significant change in the gamma-ray spectrum has been previously observed through the flaring phase in late-2012, during this recent high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 S. Buson , C. C. Cheung , S. Larsson , J. D. Scargle

The Fermi LAT has released a list of the most significant 205 sources with three months of Fermi data (Bright Source List). The Milagro Gamma-Ray Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays above 100 GeV with a peak sensitivity between 10 and 30…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-22 Andrew J. Smith

Using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), we report the first clear gamma-ray measurement of a delay between flares from the gravitationally lensed images of a blazar. The delay was detected in B0218+357, a known double-image…

We present a multi-wavelength study of the FSRQ CTA 102 using Fermi-LAT and simultaneous Swift-XRT/UVOT observations. The Fermi-LAT telescope detected one of the brightest flares from this object during Sep, 2016 to Mar, 2017. In the 190…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Raj Prince , Gayathri Raman , Joachim Hahn , Nayantara Gupta , Pratik Majumdar

We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of long-term $\gamma$-ray transient sources (1FLT). This comprises sources that were detected on monthly time intervals during the first decade of Fermi-LAT operations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 L. Baldini , J. Ballet , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , A. Berretta , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , S. Chen , G. Chiaro , D. Ciangottini , S. Ciprini , P. Cristarella Orestano , M. Crnogorcevic , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , F. Dirirsa , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , H. Fleischhack , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , S. Griffin , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , R. Imazawa , G. Jóhannesson , M. Kerr , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , H. Matake , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Nagasawa , M. Negro , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , M. Palatiello , V. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , K. Wood , M. Yassine , G. Zaharijas

The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a population of these high-energy objects. This catalog summarizes…

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

Solar flares are regularly detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi satellite, however no gamma-ray emission from other stellar eruptions has ever been captured. The Swift detection in April 2014 of a powerful outburst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Alan Loh , Stéphane Corbel , Guillaume Dubus

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 report on the Fermi-LAT detection of high-energy emission from the behind-the-limb (BTL) solar flares that occurred on 2013 October 11, and 2014 January 6 and September 1. The Fermi-LAT observations are associated with flares from active…

We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission in the energy range from 50 MeV to 1 TeV, it is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 LAT collaboration

The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a daily quicklook analysis and review of the high-energy gamma-ray sky seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The duty offers alerts for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 S. Ciprini , D. Gasparrini , D. Bastieri , J. Chiang , G. Tosti

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi, launched on 2008 June 11, is a space telescope to explore the high energy gamma-ray universe. The instrument covers the energy range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with greatly improved sensitivity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-18 Damien Parent

We report the first detection of >100 MeV gamma rays associated with a behind-the-limb solar flare, which presents a unique opportunity to probe the underlying physics of high-energy flare emission and particle acceleration. On 2013 October…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Nicola Omodei , Vahe' Petrosian , Wei Liu , Fatima Rubio da Costa , Alice Allafort , Qingrong Chen

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 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

We search the Fermi-LAT photon database for an extended gamma-ray emission which could be associated with any of the 581 previously detected gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) visible to the Fermi-LAT. For this purpose we compare the number of photons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-08 G. I. Rubtsov , M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov

The first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalogue of sources (1FHL) emitting at high energies (above 10 GeV) reports the details of 514 objects detected in the first three years of the Fermi mission. Of these, 71 were reported as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Landi , L. Bassani , J. B. Stephen , N. Masetti , A. Malizia , P. Ubertini

We search for transient gamma-ray emission in the energy range from 0.1-10 GeV using data from the Fermi-LAT telescope in coincidence with magnetar flares. For our analysis, we look for coincidence with 15 distinct flares from 11 magnetars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Vyaas Ramakrishnan , Shantanu Desai

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

In the first 3.5 years of operations the Fermi LAT detected several sources with daily fluxes brighter than F(E>100MeV) > 10^{-6} ph/cm^2/s, the threshold set by the Fermi Collaboration for issuing an Astronomer Telegram. We focus the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-13 S. Buson , D. Bastieri , F. D'Ammando , G. Tosti