7–14 mars 2009
La Thuile
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

High energy gamma rays observations with the Fermi gamma-ray Telescope

12 mars 2009, 08:50
20m
La Thuile

La Thuile

Rencontres de Moriond Planibel Hotel - La Thuile Aosta Valley 11016 La Thuile (Aosta), Italy Phone : 39 (0)1 65 88 45 41 Fax : 39 (0)1 65 88 45 35

Orateur

Prof. nicola giglietto (dipartimento di fisica università e politecnico bari - infn bari)

Description

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly called GLAST, is a mission to measure the cosmic gamma-ray flux in the energy range 20 MeV to >300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 8 keV to 30 MeV. In addition to breakthrough capabilities in energy coverage and localization, the very large field of view enables observations of 20% of the sky at any instant, and the entire sky on a timescale of a few hours. With its recent launch on 11 June 2008, Fermi now opens a new and important window on a wide variety of phenomena, including pulsars, black holes and active galactic nuclei, gamma-ray bursts, the origin of cosmic rays and supernova remnants, and searches for hypothetical new phenomena such as supersymmetric dark matter annihilations. This talk will review latest results on many of these items.

Auteur principal

Prof. nicola giglietto (dipartimento di fisica università e politecnico bari - infn bari)

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