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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 LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope is performing an all-sky survey from 20 MeV to 300 GeV with unprecedented statistics and angular resolution. This is providing a wealth of new information on the non-thermal emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. W. Strong

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

Over the past 16 years, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has significantly advanced our view of the GeV gamma-ray sky, yet several key questions remain - such as the composition of the isotropic gamma-ray background, the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-07 Christopher Eckner , Noemi Anau Montel , Florian List , Francesca Calore , Christoph Weniger

The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a quick look and review of the gamma-ray sky observed daily by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The FA-GSW service provides alerts and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefano Ciprini , David J. Thompson

Recent detection of suborbital gamma-ray variability of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is in severe conflict with established models of blazar emission. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Krzysztof Nalewajko

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observatory is a pair conversion telescope sensitive to gamma-rays over more than four energy decades, between 20 MeV and more than 300 GeV. Acting in synergy with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Nicola Omodei

In an attempt to constrain and understand the emission mechanism of gamma rays, we perform a cross-correlation analysis of 15 blazars using light curves in millimetre, optical and gamma rays. We use discrete correlation function and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , M. Tornikoski , K. Nilsson , E. Lindfors , M. Baloković , A. Lähteenmäki , R. Reinthal , L. Takalo

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…

It is widely accepted that cosmic rays (CRs) up to at least PeV energies are Galactic in origin. Accelerated particles are injected into the interstellar medium where they propagate to the farthest reaches of the Milky Way, including a…

The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion detector designed to study the gamma-ray sky in the energy range 30 MeV to 300 GeV. Fermi has detected high-energy gamma rays…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Elena Orlando

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on 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 20…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 LAT Collaboration

The Fermi-LAT collaboration recently confirmed a discrepancy between the observed longitudinal profile of gamma-ray diffuse emission from the Galaxy and that computed with numerical codes assuming that Cosmic Rays (CRs) are produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Daniele Gaggero , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

A majority of blazars exhibit variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, observed over various time scales. In particular, discernible periodic patterns are detected in the $\gamma$-ray light curves of a few blazars, such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 Alba Rico , A. Domínguez , P. Peñil , M. Ajello , S. Buson , S. Adhikari , M. Movahedifar

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti

We perform a blind search for the variability of the gamma-ray sky in the energy range E>1 GeV using 308 weeks of the Fermi-LAT data. We use the technique based on the comparison of the weekly photon counts and exposures in sky pixels by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-22 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

We cross correlate the Fermi 11 months survey catalogue (1FGL) with the 20 GHz Australia Telescope Compact Array radio survey catalogue (AT20G) composed by 5890 sources at declination <0 deg. Among the 738 Fermi sources distributed in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini

Most Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope exhibit a delay of up to about 10 seconds between the trigger time of the hard X-ray signal as measured by the Fermi GBM and the onset of the MeV-GeV counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Gianluca Castignani , Dafne Guetta , Elena Pian , Lorenzo Amati , Simonetta Puccetti , Simone Dichiara

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Sylvain Chaty

Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \textit{Fermi} mission of diffuse $\gamma$-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude $l$ from $200\arcdeg$ to $260\arcdeg$ and latitude $| b |$ from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 A. A. Abdo