First Results from the Fermi Large Area Telescope

摘要

There s only one newcomer to the physics Top Ten in this period, and it joins at #10 on the grid. The paper tells us what the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is seeing, and it is highly cited because this is the first new look at the gamma-ray sky in more than a decade. Gamma-rays are only produced by extremely energetic objects, hence the appeal of a new telescope to spy on the most explosive events in the universe. The Fermi spacecraft, launched into a near-earth orbit on June 11, 2008, stalks the cosmic zoo in search of pulsars, interacting binary stars, supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, and active galactic nuclei. Paper #10 lists 205 gamma-ray sources detected in the first three months of observations at energies above 100 MeV.