%0 Generic %1 thompson2022fermi %A Thompson, David J. %A Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A. %D 2022 %K astrophysics hep-ph review %T Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope %U http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12875 %X The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and the Large Area Telescope (LAT), cover 8 orders of magnitude in photon energy. The GBM consists of 12 Sodium Iodide detectors and 2 Bismuth Germinate detectors, covering the 10 keV - 40 MeV energy range, arrayed on two sides of the spacecraft so as to view the entire sky that is not occulted by the Earth. The LAT is a pair production telescope based on silicon strip trackers, a Cesium Iodide calorimeter, and a plastic scintillator anticoincidence system. It covers the energy range from about 20 MeV to more than 500 GeV, with a field of view of about 2.4 steradians. Thanks to their huge fields of view, the instruments can observe the entire sky with a cadence of about an hour for GBM and about three hours for LAT. All gamma-ray data from Fermi become public immediately, enabling a broad range of multiwavelength and multimessenger research. Over 3000 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), including GRB 170817A associated with a neutron star merger detected in gravitational waves, and 5000 high-energy sources, including the blazar TXS 0506+056 associated with high-energy neutrinos, have been detected by the Fermi instruments. The Fermi Science Support Center provides a wide array of resources to enable scientific use of the data, including background models, source catalogs, analysis software, documentation, and a Help Desk.

@misc{thompson2022fermi, abstract = {The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a key mission in multiwavelength and multimessenger studies, has been surveying the gamma-ray sky from its low-Earth orbit since 2008. Its two scientific instruments, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and the Large Area Telescope (LAT), cover 8 orders of magnitude in photon energy. The GBM consists of 12 Sodium Iodide detectors and 2 Bismuth Germinate detectors, covering the 10 keV - 40 MeV energy range, arrayed on two sides of the spacecraft so as to view the entire sky that is not occulted by the Earth. The LAT is a pair production telescope based on silicon strip trackers, a Cesium Iodide calorimeter, and a plastic scintillator anticoincidence system. It covers the energy range from about 20 MeV to more than 500 GeV, with a field of view of about 2.4 steradians. Thanks to their huge fields of view, the instruments can observe the entire sky with a cadence of about an hour for GBM and about three hours for LAT. All gamma-ray data from Fermi become public immediately, enabling a broad range of multiwavelength and multimessenger research. Over 3000 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), including GRB 170817A associated with a neutron star merger detected in gravitational waves, and 5000 high-energy sources, including the blazar TXS 0506+056 associated with high-energy neutrinos, have been detected by the Fermi instruments. The Fermi Science Support Center provides a wide array of resources to enable scientific use of the data, including background models, source catalogs, analysis software, documentation, and a Help Desk.}, added-at = {2023-01-01T13:39:24.000+0100}, author = {Thompson, David J. and Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a00d076371912e46dc291d2cc7592beb/intfxdx}, description = {Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}, interhash = {e9b429397f7c092af64384ab3b5b027b}, intrahash = {a00d076371912e46dc291d2cc7592beb}, keywords = {astrophysics hep-ph review}, note = {cite arxiv:2210.12875Comment: 36 pages, 13 figures. To appear in "Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics" by Springer - Editors in chief: C. Bambi and A. Santangelo}, timestamp = {2023-01-01T13:39:24.000+0100}, title = {Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12875}, year = 2022 }