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The Vela pulsar is one of the most exciting gamma-ray sources and has been at the forefront of high-energy pulsar science since the detection of gamma-ray pulsations at the radio period by SAS-2 in 1975. With the unprecedented angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 T. J. Johnson , Ö. Çelik , M. Kerr , A. K. Harding , G. A. Caliandro

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has a point spread function with large tails, consisting of events affected by tracker ineffiencies, inactive volumes, and hard scattering; these tails can make source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-07 Stephen K. N. Portillo , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on board the Fermi satellite consists of a multi-layer silicon-strip tracker interleaved with tungsten converters (TKR), followed by a CsI crystal hodoscopic calorimeter (CAL). Sixteen TKR and CAL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. N. Mazziotta

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected the gamma-ray glow emanating from the giant radio lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A. The resolved gamma-ray image shows the lobes clearly separated from the central active source. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-22 LAT Collaboration

The field of gamma-ray astronomy has experienced impressive progress over the last decade. Thanks to the advent of a new generation of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes (H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS) and thanks to the launch of the Fermi-LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Jürgen Knödlseder

The Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to $55^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above $10^\circ$ in Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-22 LAT Collaboration

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is by far the largest telescope of any kind ever built. FAST produced its first light in September 2016 and it is now under commissioning, with normal operation to commence in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Di Li , John M. Dickey , Shu Liu

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first 3 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. This catalog complements the Second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 David Paneque , Jean Ballet , Toby Burnett , Seth Digel , Pascal Fortin , Juergen Knoedlseder

A modified version of the folded aplanatic Gregory telescope equipped with a spherical two-lens corrector is proposed for observations requiring a high signal-to-noise ratio. The basic telescope model has an aperture of 400 mm (f/3.0), its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 V. Yu. Terebizh

FERMI-LAT is performing an all-sky gamma-ray survey from 30 MeV to $>$300 GeV with unprecedented sensitivity and angular resolution. FERMI has detected high-energy gamma rays from the Moon and Sun since the first weeks of data taking. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 N. Giglietto

The Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), scheduled to be launched in fall 2007, is the next generation satellite for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The Large Area Telescope (LAT), GLAST main instrument, with a wide field of view…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 E. Nuss

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission, scheduled for launch by NASA in 2007, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jan Conrad

Detailed simulations of the gamma-ray sky played an important role before the launch of Fermi. Pre-launch simulation campaigns aided the development of new analysis tools and the assessment of the expected Fermi-LAT science performance.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Razzano

Gamma-ray studies are an essential tool in our search for the origin of cosmic rays. Instruments like the Fermi-LAT, H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS have revolutionized our understanding of the high energy Universe. This paper describes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-23 Stefan Funk

This Letter presents the first results from the observations of LSI +61 303 using Large Area Telescope data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope between 2008 August and 2009 March. Our results indicate variability that is consistent…

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

The main goal for the GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope mission is to perform a sensitive search for signatures of dark matter particles in high-energy gamma-ray emission. Measurements will also concern the following scientific goals: detailed…

Launched on the 11th of June 2008, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has made several outstanding scientific contributions to the high energy astrophysics community. One of these contributions was the high statistics measurement of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Melissa Pesce-Rollins

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

Context: GeV gamma-ray pulsations from over 140 pulsars have been characterized using the Fermi Large Area Telescope, enabling improved understanding of the emission regions within the neutron star magnetospheres, and the contributions of…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), Fermi's main instrument, is providing a new view of the local energetic pulsar population. In addition to identifying a pulsar origin of a large fraction of the bright unidentified Galactic EGRET sources, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 G. A. Caliandro , E. C. Ferrara , D. Parent , R. W. Romani