2009ApJ...697.1071A

Query : 2009ApJ...697.1071A

2009ApJ...697.1071A - Astrophys. J., 697, 1071-1102 (2009/June-1)

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope mission.

ATWOOD W.B., ABDO A.A., ACKERMANN M., ALTHOUSE W., ANDERSON B., AXELSSON M., BALDINI L., BALLET J., BAND D.L., BARBIELLINI G., BARTELT J., BASTIERI D., BAUGHMAN B.M., BECHTOL K., BEDEREDE D., BELLARDI F., BELLAZZINI R., BERENJI B., BIGNAMI G.F., BISELLO D., BISSALDI E., BLANDFORD R.D., BLOOM E.D., BOGART J.R., BONAMENTE E., BONNELL J., BORGLAND A.W., BOUVIER A., BREGEON J., BREZ A., BRIGIDA M., BRUEL P., BURNETT T.H., BUSETTO G., CALIANDRO G.A., CAMERON R.A., CARAVEO P.A., CARIUS S., CARLSON P., CASANDJIAN J.M., CAVAZZUTI E., CECCANTI M., CECCHI C., CHARLES E., CHEKHTMAN A., CHEUNG C.C., CHIANG J., CHIPAUX R., CILLIS A.N., CIPRINI S., CLAUS R., COHEN-TANUGI J., CONDAMOOR S., CONRAD J., CORBET R., CORUCCI L., COSTAMANTE L., CUTINI S., DAVIS D.S., DECOTIGNY D., DEKLOTZ M., DERMER C.D., DE ANGELIS A., DIGEL S.W., DO COUTO E SILVA E., DRELL P.S., DUBOIS R., DUMORA D., EDMONDS Y., FABIANI D., FARNIER C., FAVUZZI C., FLATH D.L., FLEURY P., FOCKE W.B., FUNK S., FUSCO P., GARGANO F., GASPARRINI D., GEHRELS N., GENTIT F.-X., GERMANI S., GIEBELS B., GIGLIETTO N., GIOMMI P., GIORDANO F., GLANZMAN T., GODFREY G., GRENIER I.A., GRONDIN M.-H., GROVE J.E., GUILLEMOT L., GUIRIEC S., HALLER G., HARDING A.K., HART P.A., HAYS E., HEALEY S.E., HIRAYAMA M., HJALMARSDOTTER L., HORN R., HUGHES R.E., JOHANNESSON G., JOHANSSON G., JOHNSON A.S., JOHNSON R.P., JOHNSON T.J., JOHNSON W.N., KAMAE T., KATAGIRI H., KATAOKA J., KAVELAARS A., KAWAI N., KELLY H., KERR M., KLAMRA W., KNODLSEDER J., KOCIAN M.L., KOMIN N., KUEHN F., KUSS M., LANDRIU D., LATRONICO L., LEE B., LEE S.-H., LEMOINE-GOUMARD M., LIONETTO A.M., LONGO F., LOPARCO F., LOTT B., LOVELLETTE M.N., LUBRANO P., MADEJSKI G.M., MAKEEV A., MARANGELLI B., MASSAI M.M., MAZZIOTTA M.N., McENERY J.E., MENON N., MEURER C., MICHELSON P.F., MINUTI M., MIRIZZI N., MITTHUMSIRI W., MIZUNO T., MOISEEV A.A., MONTE C., MONZANI M.E., MORETTI E., MORSELLI A., MOSKALENKO I.V., MURGIA S., NAKAMORI T., NISHINO S., NOLAN P.L., NORRIS J.P., NUSS E., OHNO M., OHSUGI T., OMODEI N., ORLANDO E., ORMES J.F., PACCAGNELLA A., PANEQUE D., PANETTA J.H., PARENT D., PEARCE M., PEPE M., PERAZZO A., PESCE-ROLLINS M., PICOZZA P., PIERI L., PINCHERA M., PIRON F., PORTER T.A., POUPARD L., RAINO S., RANDO R., RAPPOSELLI E., RAZZANO M., REIMER A., REIMER O., REPOSEUR T., REYES L.C., RITZ S., ROCHESTER L.S., RODRIGUEZ A.Y., ROMANI R.W., ROTH M., RUSSELL J.J., RYDE F., SABATINI S., SADROZINSKI H.F.-W., SANCHEZ D., SANDER A., SAPOZHNIKOV L., SAZ PARKINSON P.M., SCARGLE J.D., SCHALK T.L., SCOLIERI G., SGRO C., SHARE G.H., SHAW M., SHIMOKAWABE T., SHRADER C., SIERPOWSKA-BARTOSIK A., SISKIND E.J., SMITH D.A., SMITH P.D., SPANDRE G., SPINELLI P., STARCK J.-L., STEPHENS T.E., STRICKMAN M.S., STRONG A.W., SUSON D.J., TAJIMA H., TAKAHASHI H., TAKAHASHI T., TANAKA T., TENZE A., TETHER S., THAYER J.B., THAYER J.G., THOMPSON D.J., TIBALDO L., TIBOLLA O., TORRES D.F., TOSTI G., TRAMACERE A., TURRI M., USHER T.L., VILCHEZ N., VITALE V., WANG P., WATTERS K., WINER B.L., WOOD K.S., YLINEN T. and ZIEGLER M.

Abstract (from CDS):

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 (FoV), high-energy γ-ray telescope, covering the energy range from below 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV. The LAT was built by an international collaboration with contributions from space agencies, high-energy particle physics institutes, and universities in France, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and the United States. This paper describes the LAT, its preflight 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 eight-layer hodoscopic configuration with a total depth of 8.6 radiation lengths, giving both longitudinal and transverse information about the energy deposition pattern. The calorimeter's depth and segmentation enable the high-energy reach of the LAT and contribute significantly to background rejection. The aspect ratio of the tracker (height/width) is 0.4, allowing a large FoV (2.4 sr) and ensuring that most pair-conversion showers initiated in the tracker will pass into the calorimeter for energy measurement. Data obtained with the LAT are intended to (1) permit rapid notification of high-energy γ-ray bursts and transients and facilitate monitoring of variable sources, (2) yield an extensive catalog of several thousand high-energy sources obtained from an all-sky survey, (3) measure spectra from 20 MeV to more than 50 GeV for several hundred sources, (4) localize point sources to 0.3-2 arcmin, (5) map and obtain spectra of extended sources such as SNRs, molecular clouds, and nearby galaxies, (6) measure the diffuse isotropic γ-ray background up to TeV energies, and (7) explore the discovery space for dark matter.

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Journal keyword(s): cosmic rays - galaxies: active - Galaxy: general - gamma rays: observations - Sun: X-rays, gamma rays - telescopes

Simbad objects: 32

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Number of rows : 32
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2024 		#notes
1 SNR G119.5+10.2 SNR 00 06.6 +72 47           ~ 250 1
2 M 31 AGN 00 42 44.330 +41 16 07.50 4.86 4.36 3.44     ~ 12645 1
3 NAME SMC G 00 52 38.0 -72 48 01   2.79 2.2     ~ 11146 1
4 3B 940217 gB 01 56.3 +04 33           ~ 204 0
5 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 17432 0
6 V* CM Tau Psr 05 34 31.9474694616 +22 00 52.153698024           ~ 5259 0
7 RMC 136 Cl* 05 38 42.396 -69 06 03.36   5.81 5.40     ~ 2019 2
8 NAME Geminga Psr 06 33 54.153 +17 46 12.91           ~ 1222 0
9 GRB 080916C gB 07 59 23.24 -56 38 16.8           ~ 356 0
10 GRB 081215A gB 08 22 +54.0           ~ 55 0
11 NAME Vela Pulsar Psr 08 35 20.65525 -45 10 35.1545     15.10     ~ 2315 1
12 2B 930131 gB 12 08.2 -08 14           ~ 125 0
13 7C 1219+2830 BLL 12 21 31.6904439888 +28 13 58.500308172   16.81 16.11 14.24   ~ 873 1
14 M 87 AGN 12 30 49.42338414 +12 23 28.0436859 10.16 9.59 8.63   7.49 ~ 7193 3
15 3C 279 Bla 12 56 11.16657958 -05 47 21.5251510   18.01 17.75 15.87   ~ 3042 2
16 AX J1418.7-6058 X 14 18 38.6 -60 57 49           ~ 52 0
17 NAME Kookaburra reg 14 19 -60.9           ~ 53 1
18 AX J1420.1-6049 Rad 14 20 07.8 -60 48 56           ~ 25 0
19 PSR J1420-6048 Psr 14 20 08.190 -60 48 14.85           ~ 196 0
20 GRB 080825C gB 15 28.8 -04 54           ~ 67 0
21 1FGL J1711.7-3944c BL? 17 12 27 -39 41.2     12.27     ~ 723 1
22 SNR G348.5+00.1 SNR 17 14 31.780 -38 28 34.50           ~ 220 3
23 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 14414 0
24 GRS G000.90 +00.10 Rad 17 47 21.1 -28 08 19           ~ 19 0
25 PSR J1836+5925 Psr 18 36 13.661 +59 25 29.77           ~ 144 0
26 HD 226868 HXB 19 58 21.6757355952 +35 12 05.784512688 9.38 9.72 8.91 8.42   O9.7Iabpvar 4337 0
27 4B 941017 gB 20 06.2 +09 49           ~ 93 0
28 Fermi bn081024891 gB 21 31 36.00 +21 12 14.4           ~ 89 0
29 QSO B2155-304 BLL 21 58 52.0652249880 -30 13 32.118447792   13.36 13.09 12.62   ~ 1732 1
30 3C 454.3 Bla 22 53 57.7480438728 +16 08 53.561508864   16.57 16.10 15.22   ~ 2847 2
31 NAME Local Group GrG ~ ~           ~ 8389 0
32 NAME Gould Belt PoG ~ ~           ~ 873 1

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