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At least a fraction of Gravitational Wave (GW) progenitors are expected to emit an electromagnetic (EM) signal in the form of a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB). Discovering such a transient EM counterpart is challenging because the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Giacomo Vianello , Nicola Omodei , James Chiang , Seth Digel

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, as an all-sky survey and monitoring mission, is producing daily/weekly sampled gamma-ray light curves for dozens of blazars and other high-energy sources. Highlights on MeV-GeV gamma-ray variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-13 Stefano Ciprini

For over 15 years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has been monitoring the entire high-energy gamma-ray sky, providing the best sampled 0.1 -- $>1$ TeV photons to this day. As a result, the Fermi-LAT has been serving the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Janeth Valverde , D. Kocevski , M. Negro , S. Garrappa , A. Brill

The launch of the Fermi satellite in 2008, with its Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board, has opened a new era for the study of gamma-ray sources at GeV ($10^9$ eV) energies. Similarly, the commissioning of the third generation of imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Denys Malyshev , Lars Mohrmann

Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Fermi Large Area Telescope have prompted theoretical advances and posed big challenges in the understanding of such extreme sources, despite the fact that GRB emission above 100 MeV is a fairly rare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-12 Giacomo Vianello , Nicola Omodei , Fermi/LAT collaboration

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) has opened a new high-energy window in the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Here we present a thorough analysis of GRB 080825C, which triggered the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), and was the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 LAT Collaboration

We present a 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), during the first 11 months of the science phase of the mission,…

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

One of the scientific objectives of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) was designed to detect and localize bursts for the Fermi mission. By means of an…

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

Launched on June 11, 2008, the LAT instrument onboard the $Fermi$ Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided a rare opportunity to study high energy photon emission from gamma-ray bursts. Although the majority of such events (27) have been iden…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Weikang Zheng , Carl W. Akerlof , Shashi B. Pandey , Timothy A. McKay , Binbin Zhang , Bing Zhang , Takanori Sakamoto

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

In 2018, the Fermi mission celebrated its first decade of operation. In this time, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been very successful in detecting the high-energy emission (>100 MeV) from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). The analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-16 Elisabetta Bissaldi , Magnus Axelsson , Nicola Omodei , Giacomo Vianello

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

We report on measurements of the cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission of Earth's atmosphere by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT has observed the Earth during its commissioning phase and with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 LAT collaboration

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most exciting new mysteries of astrophysics. Their origin is still unknown, but recent observations seem to link them to soft gamma repeaters and, in particular, to magnetar giant flares (MGFs). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Giacomo Principe , Niccolò Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Michela Negro , Francesco Longo

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the most sensitive instrument ever deployed in space for observing gamma-ray emission >100 MeV. This sensitivity has enabled the LAT to detect gamma-ray emission from the Sun during quiescent periods…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-04 N. Omodei , V. Petrosian , M. Pesce-Rollins , the Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Gamma rays reveal extreme, nonthermal conditions in the Universe. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been exploring the gamma-ray sky for more than four years, enabling a search for powerful transients like gamma-ray bursts, solar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 D. J. Thompson

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), with its improved sensitivity relative to previous generation gamma-ray telescopes, is significantly increasing the number of known gamma-ray sources in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-13 P. M. Saz Parkinson , M. Dormody , M. Ziegler

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

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to survey the gamma-ray sky from 20 MeV to several hundreds of GeV. In this energy band there are no astronomical sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 The Fermi LAT Collaboration