Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21361204h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #612.04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been surveying the sky in gamma rays from 20 MeV to >300 GeV since August 2008. The observatory continuously scans the entire sky every three hours with unprecedented sensitivity and source localization in this energy range. This is particularly well-suited to studying transient sources in the Galactic plane. Previous gamma-ray observations made by EGRET suggested a class of variable Galactic sources, but failed to associate most of these with counterparts at longer wavelengths, and the LAT is poised to address the nature of these events. The LAT has indeed reported brightening of several sources in the Galactic plane since beginning survey operations. We will report on the detected gamma-ray transients and rapid multiwavelength follow-up.
Fermi LAT Collaboration
Hays Elizabeth A.
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