Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012aas...21914918m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #149.18
Physics
Scientific paper
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been surveying the high-energy gamma-ray sky for the past three and a half years. Operating from 20 MeV to over 300 GeV, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) has discovered over a thousand new high-energy gamma-ray sources, uncovered many new classes of gamma-ray emitting objects, observed surprising variable and transient objects and placed limits on potential gamma-ray signatures of new physics. A second instrument, the gamma-ray burst monitor which operates from 8 keV to 40 MeV, has been busy detecting gamma-ray transients from thunderstorms, solar flares, magnetars and gamma-ray bursts. These observations have revolutionized our knowledge of the high energy universe. The mission has operated primarily in a survey observing mode, which enables the LAT to view the entire sky every 3 hours. However as the mission progresses there has been an increasing number of pointed mode observations to enhance the sensitivity at particularly interesting regions of the sky. All gamma-ray data is immediately made publicly available via the Fermi Science Support Center. In this poster, I will summarize the current status of the Fermi mission and operations, and will describe the new opportunities and science prospects with Fermi over the next five years.
Fermi mission Team
McEnery Julie E.
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