Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2010-11-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument onboard, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in high-energy astrophysics and in particular for the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), which are short flashes of -rays associated with the brightest and most distant events ever observed in our universe after the Big Bang. My thesis work focused primarily on the observations of this phenomenon with the LAT (20 MeV - 300 GeV) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (10 keV - 40 MeV) onboard the Fermi satellite. After describing the procedure used for detection and analysis of LAT GRBs, I will provide an overview of the temporal and spectral features observed during the prompt emission of these events after one year and a half of operation for Fermi. GRBs can also be used as a tool to probe interesting physics. My focus will be on the detection of very high energy photons (typically above 10 GeV) associated with LAT GRBs and which were used to set significant constraints both on a possible violation of Lorentz invariance - which postulates that all observers measure exactly the same speed of light in vacuum, independently of photon energy - and on the Optical-Ultraviolet extragalactic background light in the Universe.
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