Recent Results of the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Tune Kamae
Stanford University/SLAC
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) has been surveying all sky since
August 2008 with its main instrument the Large Area Telescope (LAT). In the
first 11 months of data, we found ~1450 sources with 4 sigma or higher
significance. The most populous Galactic and extra-Galactic sources
are gamma-ray pulsars and jet-emitting active galactic nuclei (Blazars)
respectively. This talk will focus on two key topics of the LAT: cosmic
ray acceleration in our Galaxy and search for dark matter signals. We are
closing on gamma-ray emission mechanisms in the rotating neutron pulsars
and supernova remnants. On the dark matter front, consistency between
our gamma-ray observations and the positron and anti-proton fluxes has
been studied. If time allows I will briefly report on the hard X-ray
polarization instrument, PoGOLite.
Date: | Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |
Contact: | Robert Rutledge |
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