Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.1007h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #10.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.670
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. The observatory scans the entire sky every three hours and allows a general search for flaring activity on daily timescales. This search is conducted automatically as part of the ground processing of the data and allows a fast response to transient events, typically less than a day. Most of the outbursts detected are spatially associated with known blazars, but in several cases during the first year of observations, gamma-ray flares occurring near the Galactic plane were not associated with any identified counterparts. This prompted follow-up observations in X-ray, optical, and radio to aid in identifying the origin of the emission and to address the question of possible flaring gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy. We will present the gamma-ray and multiwavelength properties of the transients and compare them to the known gamma-ray populations established by the first-year LAT catalog.
Fermi LAT Collaboration
Hays Elizabeth A.
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