Speaker
Dr
Alberto Dominguez
(Clemson University/UC Madrid)
Description
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has been routinely gathering science data since August 2008, surveying the full sky every three hours. The first Fermi-LAT catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV (1FHL) relied on three years of data to characterize the >10 GeV sky. The improved acceptance and point-spread function of the new Pass 8 event reconstruction and classification together with six years of observations now available allow the detection and characterization of sources directly above 50 GeV. This closes the gap between ground-based Cherenkov telescopes, which have excellent sensitivity but small fields of view and duty cycles, and all-sky observations at GeV energies from orbit. In this contribution, we will present the second catalog of hard Fermi-LAT sources detected at >50 GeV. We will discuss the properties of the extragalactic and Galactic source populations with an emphasis on the detection of spatially extended sources in the plane of our Galaxy.
Primary authors
Dr
Alberto Dominguez
(Clemson University/UC Madrid)
Dr
Dario Gasparrini
(ASI Science Data Center)
Mr
Jamie Cohen
(University of Maryland)
Dr
Marco Ajello
(Clemson University)
Dr
Sara Cutini
(ASI Science Data Center)
