The Fermi Large Area Telescope at 3 Years: A Summary of What Has Been Learned About the High-Energy Sky

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Jan 2012

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #200.01

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched on June 11, 2008; within days of full activation, the first Large Area Telescope (LAT) all-sky map of the sky revealed new high-energy sources and since the start of science operations in August 2008, the LAT has been observing the entire sky once every three hours. These observations have revealed more than 1,873 high-energy gamma-ray sources, including several classes of active galaxies, pulsars, pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants, binary sources, high-energy gamma-ray bursts, a nova, the Sun and most recently Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes. The data has revealed not only new sources and source classes, but has taught us unexpected new things about known sources such as the Crab nebula. This talk begins with a brief reminiscence of how Fermi (then known as GLAST) was conceived of, then reviews the science return for the first 3 years, and concludes with a summary of questions about the high-energy sky and other areas of astronomy and physics that remain to be answered and that future observations with the Fermi Observatory can address.

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