A New View of the High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

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Jan 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #236.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Following its launch in June 2008, high-energy gamma-ray observations by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have unveiled over 1000 new
sources and opened an important and previously unexplored window on a wide variety of phenomena. These have included the discovery of an
population of pulsars pulsing only in gamma rays; the detection of photons up to 10s of GeV from gamma-ray bursts, enhancing our
understanding of the astrophysics of these powerful explosions; the detection of hundreds of active galaxies; a measurement of the high
energy cosmic-ray electron spectrum which may imply the presence of nearby astrophysical particle accelerators; the determination of the
diffuse gamma-ray emission with unprecedented accuracy and the constraints on phenomena such as supersymmetric dark-matter
annihilations and exotic relics from the Big Bang. Continuous monitoring of the high-energy gamma-ray sky has uncovered numerous
outbursts from active galaxies and the discovery of transient sources in our galaxy. In this talk I will describe the current status of the
Fermi observatory and review the science highlights from Fermi.

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