Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21541913h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #419.13; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.278
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. The observatory scans the entire sky every three hours and allows a general search for flaring activity on daily timescales. This search is conducted automatically as part of the ground processing of the data and allows a fast response to transient events, typically less than a day. Most of the outbursts detected are spatially associated with known blazars, but in several cases during the first year of observations, gamma-ray flares occurring near the Galactic plane did not reveal any initially compelling counterparts. This prompted follow-up observations in X-ray, optical, and radio to attempt to identify the origin of the emission and probe the possible existence of a class of transient gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy. We will report on the details of these LAT events and the results of the multiwavelength counterpart searches.
Fermi LAT Collaboration
Hays Elizabeth A.
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