Conveners
Exploring Gamma-ray Data: Plenary-3
- Gulli Johannesson
In the last decade, the number of known gamma-ray sources has exploded and gamma-ray astronomy is reaching an era of precision measurements. Wide-field-of-view observatories like Fermi-LAT in the GeV range and HAWC in the TeV range, as well as IACTs like H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS, have amassed a wealth of data. Some of these experiments have made data and analysis tools available to the...
The latest Fermi-LAT source catalog constructed from scratch (4FGL: 5065 sources above 50 MeV) was based on eight years (2008 - 2016) of Pass 8 data. Since neither the event reconstruction (Pass 8) nor the interstellar emission model (gll_iem_v07) has evolved since then, we decided we will provide incremental 4FGL releases at regular intervals of two years, until one of those two key...
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) observes a wide variety of high-energy phenomena, spanning astrophysics, heliophysics, and Earth science. Its all-sky monitoring, broad energy range, fine spectral resolution, and fine time resolution make GBM a promising instrument for many different investigations. The GBM Team developed spectral analysis software, RMfit, for the analysis of onboard...
We present the Fermi LAT light curve repository, consisting of a public library of light curves for variable Fermi LAT sources on a variety of time scales. Based on the successful Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis data portal, the Fermi LAT light curve repository aims to provide publication quality light curves on time scales of days, weeks, and months for over 1500 sources deemed variable in...
The Fermi Masterclass is an international outreach event designed to give high-school students the unique opportunity to discover the world of High-Energy Astrophysics. Since 2017, following analogous experiences previously proposed mostly in France, various Italian universities and research institutes, guided by the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), organized a "full immersion"...
