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Fermi-LAT results on galactic plane -ray transient sources

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Abstract

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi -ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of -ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 -ray binaries and a microquasar. In addition, it is an adequate telescope to detect other transient sources. The observatory scans the entire sky every three hours and allows a general search for aring activity on daily timescales. This search is con- ducted automatically as part of the ground processing of the data and allows a fast response to transient events, typically less than a day. Most of the outbursts detected are spatially associated with known blazars, but in several cases during the rst years of observations, -ray ares occurring near the Galactic plane did not reveal any initially compelling counterparts. This prompted follow-up observations in X-ray, optical, and radio to attempt to identify the origin of the emission and probe the possible existence of a class of transient -ray sources in the Galaxy. Here we report on these LAT events and the results of the multiwavelength counterpart searches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
PublisherWorld Scientific
Pages1001-1007
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9814374512, 9789814374514
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009 - Paris, France
Duration: 12 Jul 200918 Jul 2009

Publication series

Name12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity

Conference

Conference12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period12/07/0918/07/09

Keywords

  • -ray
  • Fermi-lat
  • Galactic
  • Transient
  • X-ray observations

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