The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission
W. B. Atwood,A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,W. Althouse,Brandon Anderson,Magnus Axelsson,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,David L. Band,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,J. Bartelt,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,B. M. Baughman,Keith Bechtol,D. Bédérède,F. Bellardi,Ronaldo Bellazzini,B. Berenji,Giovanni F. Bignami,Dario Bisello,Dario Bisello,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,J. R. Bogart,Emanuele Bonamente,Emanuele Bonamente,Jerry T. Bonnell,A. W. Borgland,A. Bouvier,Johan Bregeon,Alessandro Brez,M. Brigida,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,T. H. Burnett,G. Busetto,G. Busetto,G. A. Caliandro,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,P. A. Caraveo,Staffan Carius,P. Carlson,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,M. Ceccanti,C. Cecchi,C. Cecchi,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,R. Chipaux,A. N. Cillis,Stefano Ciprini,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,S. Condamoor,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,Robin H. D. Corbet,L. Corucci,L. Costamante,S. Cutini,David S. Davis,David S. Davis,D. Decotigny,M. Deklotz,Charles D. Dermer,A. De Angelis,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,R. Dubois,D. Dumora,D. Dumora,Y. Edmonds,D. Fabiani,Christian Farnier,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,D. L. Flath,P. Fleury,W. B. Focke,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Neil Gehrels,Neil Gehrels,F.-X. Gentit,S. Germani,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,F. Giordano,F. Giordano,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,M.-H. Grondin,M.-H. Grondin,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,L. Guillemot,S. Guiriec,Gunther Haller,Alice K. Harding,P. A. Hart,E. Hays,S. E. Healey,M. Hirayama,M. Hirayama,L. Hjalmarsdotter,R. Horn,R. E. Hughes,Gudlaugur Johannesson,G. Johansson,A. S. Johnson,R. P. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,A. Kavelaars,Nobuyuki Kawai,H. Kelly,Matthew Kerr,Wlodzimierz Klamra,Jürgen Knödlseder,Martin Kocian,N. Komin,N. Komin,F. Kuehn,M. Kuss,D. Landriu,Luca Latronico,B. Lee,Shiu-Hang Lee,Marianne Lemoine-Goumard,Marianne Lemoine-Goumard,Andrea Lionetto,Andrea Lionetto,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,B. Marangelli,B. Marangelli,M.M. Massai,M. N. Mazziotta,Julie McEnery,N. Menon,C. Meurer,Peter F. Michelson,Massimo Minuti,N. Mirizzi,N. Mirizzi,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,C. Monte,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,Elena Moretti,Elena Moretti,A. Morselli,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Takeshi Nakamori,Sho Nishino,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,Eric Nuss,Masanori Ohno,T. Ohsugi,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,Alessandro Paccagnella,Alessandro Paccagnella,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,D. Parent,Mark Pearce,M. Pepe,M. Pepe,A. Perazzo,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,P. Picozza,P. Picozza,L. Pieri,Michele Pinchera,F. Piron,T. A. Porter,L. Poupard,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Robert R. Rando,Robert R. Rando,E. Rapposelli,M. Razzano,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,T. Reposeur,L. C. Reyes,S. Ritz,S. Ritz,L. S. Rochester,A. Y. Rodriguez,Roger W. Romani,M. Roth,J. J. Russell,Felix Ryde,S. Sabatini,S. Sabatini,Hartmut Sadrozinski,David Sanchez,A. Sander,L. Sapozhnikov,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Jeffrey D. Scargle,T. L. Schalk,G. Scolieri,Carmelo Sgrò,Gerald H. Share,Gerald H. Share,M. S. Shaw,Takashi Shimokawabe,Chris Shrader,Agnieszka Sierpowska-Bartosik,E. J. Siskind,David A. Smith,David A. Smith,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,Jean-Luc Starck,T. E. Stephens,M. S. Strickman,Andrew W. Strong,D. J. Suson,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,A. Tenze,S. Tether,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,L. Tibaldo,O. Tibolla,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Gino Tosti,A. Tramacere,M. Turri,T. L. Usher,N. Vilchez,V. Vitale,V. Vitale,P. Wang,K. Watters,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,T. Ylinen,M. Ziegler +292 more
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The Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) as mentioned in this paper is the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from below 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV.Abstract:
(Abridged) The Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from below 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV. This paper describes the LAT, its pre-flight expected performance, and summarizes the key science objectives that will be addressed. On-orbit performance will be presented in detail in a subsequent paper. The LAT is a pair-conversion telescope with a precision tracker and calorimeter, each consisting of a 4x4 array of 16 modules, a segmented anticoincidence detector that covers the tracker array, and a programmable trigger and data acquisition system. Each tracker module has a vertical stack of 18 x,y tracking planes, including two layers (x and y) of single-sided silicon strip detectors and high-Z converter material (tungsten) per tray. Every calorimeter module has 96 CsI(Tl) crystals, arranged in an 8 layer hodoscopic configuration with a total depth of 8.6 radiation lengths. The aspect ratio of the tracker (height/width) is 0.4 allowing a large field-of-view (2.4 sr). Data obtained with the LAT are intended to (i) permit rapid notification of high-energy gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and transients and facilitate monitoring of variable sources, (ii) yield an extensive catalog of several thousand high-energy sources obtained from an all-sky survey, (iii) measure spectra from 20 MeV to more than 50 GeV for several hundred sources, (iv) localize point sources to 0.3 - 2 arc minutes, (v) map and obtain spectra of extended sources such as SNRs, molecular clouds, and nearby galaxies, (vi) measure the diffuse isotropic gamma-ray background up to TeV energies, and (vii) explore the discovery space for dark matter.read more
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The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of sdss-iii
Kyle S. Dawson,David J. Schlegel,Christopher P. Ahn,Scott F. Anderson,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Robert H. Barkhouser,Julian E. Bautista,Alessandra Beifiori,Andreas A. Berlind,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Howard Brewington,Jon Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Frances Cope,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Timothée Delubac,Roland de Putter,Roland de Putter,Saurav Dhital,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Xiaohui Fan,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Andreu Font-Ribera,Andreu Font-Ribera,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Ricardo Genova-Santos,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Daryl Haggard,Patrick B. Hall,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,Ben Harris,David W. Harris,Shirley Ho,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Diana Holder,K. Honscheid,Joe Huehnerhoff,Beatrice Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Khee-Gan Lee,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Marcio A. G. Maia,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Rachel Mandelbaum,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Robert C. Nichol,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Matthew D. Olmstead,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Isabelle Pâris,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Rafael Rebolo,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Lado Samushia,Lado Samushia,Ariel G. Sánchez,Conor Sayres,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Claudia G. Scóccola,Claudia G. Scóccola,Hee-Jong Seo,Alaina Shelden,Erin S. Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Stephanie A. Snedden,Fritz Stauffer,Oliver Steele,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Masayuki Tanaka,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,David A. Wake,M. G. Watson,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Andrew A. West,Martin White,Martin White,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng +184 more
TL;DR: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) as discussed by the authors was designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of large-scale structure.
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Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog
P. L. Nolan,A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Alice Allafort,Elisa Antolini,Elisa Antolini,W. B. Atwood,Magnus Axelsson,Magnus Axelsson,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Andrea Belfiore,Andrea Belfiore,Andrea Belfiore,Ronaldo Bellazzini,B. Berenji,Giovanni F. Bignami,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,Emanuele Bonamente,J. Bonnell,J. Bonnell,A. W. Borgland,Eugenio Bottacini,A. Bouvier,T. J. Brandt,T. J. Brandt,Johan Bregeon,M. Brigida,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,T. H. Burnett,S. Buson,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,Riccardo Campana,B. Canadas,B. Canadas,A. Cannon,A. Cannon,P. A. Caraveo,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,M. Ceccanti,C. Cecchi,C. Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,C. C. Cheung,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,R. Chipaux,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,L. R. Cominsky,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,R. H. D. Corbet,R. H. D. Corbet,S. Cutini,Filippo D'Ammando,David S. Davis,David S. Davis,A. De Angelis,M. E. DeCesar,M. E. DeCesar,M. Deklotz,A. De Luca,P. R. den Hartog,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Charles D. Dermer,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,Alex Drlica-Wagner,R. Dubois,D. Dumora,Teruaki Enoto,L. Escande,D. Fabiani,L. Falletti,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,W. B. Focke,P. Fortin,M. Frailis,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Neil Gehrels,S. Germani,S. Germani,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,Francesco Giordano,Francesco Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,M. H. Grondin,M. H. Grondin,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,Mats Gustafsson,Daniela Hadasch,Y. Hanabata,Alice K. Harding,M. Hayashida,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,A. B. Hill,D. Horan,X. Hou,R. E. Hughes,G. Iafrate,Ryosuke Itoh,Gudlaugur Johannesson,R. P. Johnson,T. E. Johnson,A. S. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,J. Katsuta,Nobuyuki Kawai,Matthew Kerr,Jürgen Knödlseder,Jürgen Knödlseder,D. Kocevski,M. Kuss,J. Lande,D. Landriu,Luca Latronico,Marianne Lemoine-Goumard,Andrea Lionetto,Andrea Lionetto,M. Llena Garde,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,M. Marelli,Enrico Massaro,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,J. Mehault,Peter F. Michelson,Massimo Minuti,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,A. A. Moiseev,M. Mongelli,C. Monte,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Takeshi Nakamori,M. Naumann-Godo,Jay P. Norris,E. Nuss,T. Nymark,T. Nymark,Masanori Ohno,T. Ohsugi,Akira Okumura,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,M. Ozaki,David Paneque,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,D. Parent,J. S. Perkins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,M. Pierbattista,Michele Pinchera,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,Judith Racusin,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,Soebur Razzaque,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Steven Ritz,L. S. Rochester,Roger W. Romani,M. Roth,R. Rousseau,Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,Hartmut Sadrozinski,David Salvetti,Daniel Sánchez,P. M. Saz Parkinson,C. Sbarra,Jeffrey D. Scargle,T. L. Schalk,Carmelo Sgrò,M. S. Shaw,Chris Shrader,E. J. Siskind,David A. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,T. E. Stephens,T. E. Stephens,M. S. Strickman,D. J. Suson,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. G. Thayer,J. B. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,L. Tibaldo,O. Tibolla,F. Tinebra,M. Tinivella,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Gino Tosti,Eleonora Troja,Yasunobu Uchiyama,Justin Vandenbroucke,A. Van Etten,B. van Klaveren,V. Vasileiou,Giacomo Vianello,V. Vitale,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,E. Wallace,P. Wang,Michael Werner,Brian L Winer,D. L. Wood,D. L. Wood,K. S. Wood,Matthew Wood,Zhenwei Yang,Stephan Zimmer +293 more
TL;DR: The second Fermi-LAT catalog (2FGL) as mentioned in this paper includes source location regions, defined in terms of elliptical fits to the 95% confidence regions and spectral fits in terms either power-law, exponentially cutoff power law, or log-normal forms.
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Fermi large area telescope first source catalog
A. A. Abdo,A. A. Abdo,Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Alice Allafort,Elisa Antolini,Elisa Antolini,W. B. Atwood,Magnus Axelsson,Magnus Axelsson,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,B. M. Baughman,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,F. Belli,F. Belli,B. Berenji,Dario Bisello,Dario Bisello,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,Emanuele Bonamente,J. Bonnell,J. Bonnell,A. W. Borgland,A. Bouvier,Johan Bregeon,Alessandro Brez,M. Brigida,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,T. H. Burnett,G. Busetto,G. Busetto,S. Buson,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,Riccardo Campana,B. Canadas,B. Canadas,P. A. Caraveo,S. Carrigan,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,M. Ceccanti,C. Cecchi,C. Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,A. N. Cillis,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,Jan Conrad,R. H. D. Corbet,R. H. D. Corbet,David S. Davis,David S. Davis,M. Deklotz,P. R. den Hartog,Charles D. Dermer,A. De Angelis,A. De Luca,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Seth Digel,M. Dormody,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,R. Dubois,D. Dumora,D. Fabiani,C. Farnier,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,W. B. Focke,P. Fortin,M. Frailis,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Neil Gehrels,S. Germani,S. Germani,Gianluca Giavitto,Gianluca Giavitto,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,F. Giordano,F. Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,M.-H. Grondin,M.-H. Grondin,J. E. Grove,L. Guillemot,Sylvain Guiriec,Mats Gustafsson,D. Hadasch,Y. Hanabata,Alice K. Harding,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,S. E. Healey,A. B. Hill,D. Horan,R. E. Hughes,G. Iafrate,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,R. P. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Nobuyuki Kawai,Matthew Kerr,Jürgen Knödlseder,D. Kocevski,M. Kuss,J. Lande,D. Landriu,Luca Latronico,Shiu-Hang Lee,M. Lemoine-Goumard,Andrea Lionetto,Andrea Lionetto,M. Llena Garde,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,B. Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,A. Makeev,A. Makeev,B. Marangelli,B. Marangelli,M. Marelli,Enrico Massaro,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,Peter F. Michelson,Massimo Minuti,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,A. A. Moiseev,M. Mongelli,C. Monte,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,Elena Moretti,Elena Moretti,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Hiroshi Nakajima,Takeshi Nakamori,M. Naumann-Godo,P. L. Nolan,J. P. Norris,E. Nuss,Masanori Ohno,T. Ohsugi,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,M. Ozaki,Alessandro Paccagnella,Alessandro Paccagnella,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,D. Parent,D. Parent,V. Pelassa,M. Pepe,M. Pepe,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,Michele Pinchera,F. Piron,T. A. Porter,L. Poupard,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,Paul S. Ray,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,Soebur Razzaque,Nanda Rea,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Joachim Ripken,Steven Ritz,L. S. Rochester,A. Y. Rodriguez,Roger W. Romani,M. Roth,Hartmut Sadrozinski,David Salvetti,David Sánchez,A. Sander,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Jeffrey D. Scargle,T. L. Schalk,G. Scolieri,Carmelo Sgrò,M. S. Shaw,E. J. Siskind,David S. Smith,P. D. Smith,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,Jean-Luc Starck,T. E. Stephens,T. E. Stephens,E. Striani,E. Striani,M. S. Strickman,Andrew W. Strong,D. J. Suson,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Tadayuki Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. B. Thayer,J. G. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,O. Tibolla,F. Tinebra,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Gino Tosti,A. Tramacere,Yasunobu Uchiyama,T. L. Usher,A. Van Etten,V. Vasileiou,V. Vasileiou,N. Vilchez,V. Vitale,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,E. Wallace,P. Wang,K. Watters,Brian L Winer,Kent S. Wood,Zhenwei Yang,T. Ylinen,T. Ylinen,M. Ziegler +288 more
TL;DR: The first Fermi-LAT catalog (1FGL) as mentioned in this paper contains 1451 sources detected and characterized in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range, and the threshold likelihood Test Statistic is 25, corresponding to a significance of just over 4 sigma.
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THE fermi gamma-ray burst monitor
Charles A. Meegan,G. G. Lichti,P. N. Bhat,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Michael S. Briggs,Valerie Connaughton,Roland Diehl,Gerald J. Fishman,Jochen Greiner,Andrew S. Hoover,Alexander J. van der Horst,Andreas von Kienlin,R. Marc Kippen,Chryssa Kouveliotou,Sheila McBreen,W. S. Paciesas,Robert B. Preece,Helmut Steinle,Mark S. Wallace,Robert B. Wilson,Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge +20 more
TL;DR: The Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) as mentioned in this paper uses an array of 12 sodium iodide scintillators and two bismuth germanate scintillation detectors to detect gamma rays from 8 keV to 40 MeV over the full unocculted sky.
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Giant gamma-ray bubbles from fermi-lat: active galactic nucleus activity or bipolar galactic wind?
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