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20082021
most citedThe Fermi Large Area Telescope On Orbit: Event Classification, Instrument Response Functions, and Calibration

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25 papers

astro-ph.HE2021★ 27 cited

Direct Numerical Simulations of Cosmic-ray Acceleration at Dense Circumstellar Medium: Magnetic Field Amplification by Bell Instability and Maximum Energy

Tsuyoshi Inoue, Alexandre Marcowith, Gwenael Giacinti +2

Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnants. However, whether supernova remnants can be Pevatrons is still very unclear. In this work we argue that Pe…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 79 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 71 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 65 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 47 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 394 cited

GeV Observations of Star-forming Galaxies with \textit{Fermi} LAT

Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +127

Recent detections of the starburst galaxies M82 and NGC 253 by gamma-ray telescopes suggest that galaxies rapidly forming massive stars are more luminous at gamma-ray energies comp…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 515 cited

The Fermi Large Area Telescope On Orbit: Event Classification, Instrument Response Functions, and Calibration

LAT Collaboration

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-en…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 29 cited

Simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489 in a high state

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, the Fermi LAT Collaboration, : +345

The high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2005-489 was the target of a multi-wavelength campaign with simultaneous observations in the TeV gamma-ray (H.E.S.S.), GeV gamma-ray (Fe…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 73 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Supernova Remnant G8.7-0.1

LAT Collaboration

We present a detailed analysis of the GeV gamma-ray emission toward the supernova remnant (SNR) G8.7-0.1 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Spac…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 33 cited

Suzaku view of X-ray Spectral Variability of the Radio Galaxy Centaurus A : Partial Covering Absorber, Reflector, and Possible Jet Component

Y. Fukazawa, K. Hiragi, S. Yamazaki +5

We observed a nearby radio galaxy, the Centaurus A (Cen A), three times with Suzaku in 2009, and measured the wide-band X-ray spectral variability more accurately than the previous…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 72 cited

Search for Gamma-ray Emission from X-ray Selected Seyfert Galaxies with Fermi-LAT

LAT Collaboration

We report on a systematic investigation of the gamma-ray properties of 120 hard X-ray-selected Seyfert galaxies classified as `radio-quiet' objects, utilizing the three-year accumu…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 125 cited

Gamma-Ray and Parsec-Scale Jet Properties of a Complete Sample of Blazars From the MOJAVE Program

M. L. Lister, M. Aller, H. Aller +142

We investigate the Fermi LAT gamma-ray and 15 GHz VLBA radio properties of a joint gamma-ray- and radio-selected sample of AGNs obtained during the first 11 months of the Fermi mis…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 16 cited

Improvements in calibration of GSO scintillators in the Suzaku Hard X-ray Detector

Shin'ya Yamada, Kazuo Makishima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa +27

Improvements of in-orbit calibration of GSO scintillators in the Hard X-ray Detector on board Suzaku are reported. To resolve an apparent change of the energy scale of GSO which ap…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 64 cited

The first Fermi multifrequency campaign on BL Lacertae: characterizing the low-activity state of the eponymous blazar

A. A. Abdo

We report on observations of BL Lacertae during the first 18 months of Fermi-LAT science operations and present results from a 48-day multifrequency coordinated campaign from 2008…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 227 cited

Detection of a spectral break in the extra hard component of GRB 090926A

Fermi-LAT, Fermi-GBM collaborations

We report on the observation of the bright, long gamma-ray burst, GRB 090926A, by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) instruments on board the \Fermi\…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 239 cited

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration +6

We report on the gamma-ray activity of the blazar Mrk 501 during the first 480 days of Fermi operation. We find that the average LAT gamma-ray spectrum of Mrk 501 can be well descr…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 121 cited

Fe-K line probing of material around the AGN central engine with Suzaku

Yasushi Fukazawa, Kazuyoshi Hiragi, Motohiro Mizuno +6

We systematically analyzed the high-quality Suzaku data of 88 Seyfert galaxies. We obtained a clear relation between the absorption column density and the equivalent width of the 6…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 111 cited

Constraints on the Cosmic-Ray Density Gradient beyond the Solar Circle from Fermi gamma-ray Observations of the Third Galactic Quadrant

Fermi LAT Collaboration

We report an analysis of the interstellar -ray emission in the third Galactic quadrant measured by the {Fermi} Large Area Telescope. The window encompassing the Galactic plane f…

astro-ph.IM2010★ 57 cited

Soft Gamma-ray Detector for the ASTRO-H Mission

Hiroyasu Tajima, Roger Blandford, Teruaki Enoto +26

ASTRO-H is the next generation JAXA X-ray satellite, intended to carry instruments with broad energy coverage and exquisite energy resolution. The Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) is…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 62 cited

Gamma-ray Spectral Evolution of NGC1275 Observed with Fermi-LAT

J. Kataoka, L. Stawarz, C. C. Cheung +7

We report on a detailed investigation of the high-energy gamma-ray emission from NGC\,1275, a well-known radio galaxy hosted by a giant elliptical located at the center of the near…

astro-ph.GA2010★ 7 cited

Study of the Large-scale Temperature Structure of the Perseus Cluster with Suzaku

Sho Nishino, Yasushi Fukazawa, Katsuhiro Hayashi +2

We report on a study of the large-scale temperature structure of the Perseus cluster with Suzaku, using the observational data of four pointings of 30' offset regions, together wit…

astro-ph.SR2009★ 14 cited

Suzaku Observation of the Metallicity Distribution in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4636

Katsuhiro Hayashi, Yasushi Fukazawa, Miyako Tozuka +4

NGC 4636, an X-ray bright elliptical galaxy, was observed for 70 ks with Suzaku. The low background and good energy resolution of the XIS enable us to estimate the foreground Galac…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 155 cited

The On-orbit Calibrations for the Fermi Large Area Telescope

The Fermi LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on--board the Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope began its on--orbit operations on June 23, 2008. Calibrations, defined in a generic sense, correspond t…

astro-ph.IM2009

Modeling and Reproducibility of Suzaku HXD PIN/GSO Background

Yasushi Fukazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Shin Watanabe +26

Suzaku Hard X-ray Detector (HXD) achieved the lowest background level than any other previously or currently operational missions sensitive in the energy range of 10--600 keV, by u…