The Gamma-ray Sky with Fermi
arXiv:1308.1870 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2013.09.022
Abstract
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 flares, and flaring active galactic nuclei, as well as long-term studies including pulsars, binary systems, supernova remnants, and searches for predicted sources of gamma rays such as clusters of galaxies. Some results include a stringent limit on Lorentz invariance violation derived from a gamma-ray burst, unexpected gamma-ray variability from the Crab Nebula, a huge gamma-ray structure in the direction of the center of our Galaxy, and strong constraints on some Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) models for dark matter.
6 pages, to appear in Proc. 4th International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space (SpacePart12), CERN, Nov. 5-7, 2012, Nucl. Phys. B, ed. Roberto Battiston and Sergio Bertolucci
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