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Gamma-ray flaring activity from the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211 observed by Fermi LAT
The Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +126
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope routinely detects the highly dust-absorbed, reddened, and MeV-peaked flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1830…
Inferred cosmic-ray spectrum from -LAT -ray observations of the Earth's limb
LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +150
Recent accurate measurements of cosmic-ray (CR) species by ATIC-2, CREAM, and PAMELA reveal an unexpected hardening in the proton and He spectra above a few hundred GeV, a gradual…
Multifrequency Studies of the Peculiar Quasar 4C +21.35 During the 2010 Flaring Activity
M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort +288
The discovery of rapidly variable Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from 4C +21.35 (PKS 1222+216) by MAGIC on 2010 June 17, triggered by the high activity dete…
Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A
LAT collaboration, GBM collaboration
The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the nature…
The First Pulse of the Extremely Bright GRB 130427A: A Test Lab for Synchrotron Shocks
R. Preece, J. Michael Burgess, A. von Kienlin +156
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine…
Dark Matter Constraints from Observations of 25 Milky Way Satellite Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, A. Albert +119
The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are some of the most dark-matter-dominated objects known. Due to their proximity, high dark matter content, and lack of ast…
Determination of the Point-Spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei
LAT Collaboration
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to detect photons with energies from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV. The pre-laun…
PSR J2021+4026 in the Gamma Cygni region: the first variable gamma-ray pulsar seen by the Fermi LAT
LAT collaboration
Long-term monitoring of PSR J2021+4026 in the heart of the Cygnus region with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unveiled a sudden decrease in flux above 100 MeV over a time scal…
Search for cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission in Galaxy Clusters
M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +123
Current theories predict relativistic hadronic particle populations in clusters of galaxies in addition to the already observed relativistic leptons. In these scenarios hadronic in…
Associating long-term gamma-ray variability with the superorbital period of LS I 61 303
LAT Collaboration
Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamm…
New Fermi-LAT event reconstruction reveals more high-energy gamma rays from Gamma-ray bursts
W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Bregeon +14
Based on the experience gained during the four and a half years of the mission, the Fermi -LAT collaboration has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the event-level analysis goi…
Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Dark Matter Implications
LAT Collaboration
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially mono…
The Second Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars
LAT collaboration
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence > 0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half…
The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis: A list of flaring gamma-ray sources and the search for transients in our Galaxy
LAT Collaboration
In this paper we present the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool to systematically study the variability of the gamma-ray sky measured by the Large Area Telescope (LA…
Impulsive and Long Duration High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission From the Very Bright 2012 March 7 Solar Flares
LAT collaboration
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observed two bright X-class solar flares on 2012 March 7, and detected gamma-rays up to 4 GeV. We detected gamma-rays both during the impulsive…
High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission From Solar Flares: Summary of Fermi LAT Detections and Analysis of Two M-Class Flares
LAT collaboration
We present the detections of 19 solar flares detected in high-energy gamma rays (above 100 MeV) with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first four years of operation.…
The First Fermi LAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
LAT Collaboration
In three years of observations since the beginning of nominal science operations in August 2008, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has obs…
Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants
LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +167
Cosmic rays are particles (mostly protons) accelerated to relativistic speeds. Despite wide agreement that supernova remnants (SNRs) are the sources of galactic cosmic rays, unequi…
Multiwavelength observations of GRB 110731A: GeV emission from onset to afterglow
LAT Collaboration, GBM Collaboration, Swift Collaboration +2
We report on the multiwavelength observations of the bright, long gamma-ray burst \GRB, by the \Fermi and \Swift observatories, and by the MOA and GROND optical telescopes. The ana…
Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovery via Gamma-Ray Pulsations
H. J. Pletsch, L. Guillemot, H. Fehrmann +150
Millisecond pulsars, old neutron stars spun-up by accreting matter from a companion star, can reach high rotation rates of hundreds of revolutions per second. Until now, all such "…
GRB110721A: An extreme peak energy and signatures of the photosphere
The Fermi LAT Collaboration, the GBM Collaboration, A. Pe'er
GRB110721A was observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope using its two instruments the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). The burst consisted o…
Fermi LAT study of cosmic-rays and the interstellar medium in nearby molecular clouds
LAT collaboration
We report an analysis of the interstellar gamma-ray emission from the Chamaeleon, R Coronae Australis (R CrA), and Cepheus and Polaris flare regions with the Fermi Large Area Teles…
Multi-wavelength observations of blazar AO 0235+164 in the 2008-2009 flaring state
M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, J. Ballet +208
The blazar AO 0235+164 (z = 0.94) has been one of the most active objects observed by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since its launch in Summer 2008. In addition to the continuou…
Gamma-ray observations of the Orion Molecular Clouds with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort +142
We report on the gamma-ray observations of giant molecular clouds Orion A and B with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The gamma-ray emis…