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Fermi: the gamma-ray large area space telescope mission status
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | McEnery, Julie E. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Following its launch in June 2008, high-energy gamma-ray observations by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have unveiled over 1000 new sources and opened an important and previously unexplored window on a wide variety of phenomena. These have included the discovery of a population of pulsars pulsing only in gamma rays; the detection of photons up to 10s of gigaelectronvolts from gamma-ray bursts, enhancing our understanding of the astrophysics of these powerful explosions; the detection of hundreds of active galaxies; a measurement of the high energy cosmic-ray electron spectrum which may imply the presence of nearby astrophysical particle accelerators; the determination of the diffuse gamma-ray emission with unprecedented accuracy and the constraints on phenomena such as super-symmetric dark-matter annihilations and exotic relics from the Big Bang. Continuous monitoring of the high-energy gamma-ray sky has uncovered numerous outbursts from active galaxies and the discovery of transient sources in our galaxy. In this talk I will describe the current status of the Fermi observatory and review the science highlights from Fermi. |
| File Size | 901024 |
| Page Count | 27 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20150008381 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5jb1598x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2014-12-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Telescope Gamma-ray Fermi Case Histories Astrophysics Data Acquisition Data Processing Field of View Gamma Ray Bursts Stellar Flares Data Products Space Missions Pulsars Sky Surveys Astronomy Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Gamma Ray Astronomy Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Presentation |
