Published in Astrophysics at Very High Energies, Saas-Fee Advanced Course, Volume 40. ISBN 978-3-642-36133-3. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, p. 225.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2814


SOURCES OF GEV PHOTONS AND THE FERMI RESULTS

Charles D. Dermer

United States Naval Research Laboratory, Code 7653
4555 Overlook Ave., Washington, DC 20375-5352 USA


Abstract: This chapter presents the elaborated lecture notes on Sources of GeV Photons and the Fermi Results given by Charles D. Dermer at the 40th Saas-Fee Advanced Course on "Astrophysics at Very High Energies". The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope made important discoveries and established new results in various areas of astrophysics: from our solar system to remote gamma-ray bursts, from pulsar physics to limits on dark matter and Lorentz invariance violations. The author gives a broad overview of these results by discussing GeV instrumentation and the GeV sky as seen by Fermi, the Fermi catalogs on gamma-ray sources, pulsars and active galactic nuclei, relativistic jet physics and blazars, gamma-rays from cosmic rays in the Galaxy, from star-forming galaxies and from clusters of galaxies, the diffuse extra-galactic gamma-ray background, micro-quasars, radio galaxies, the extragalactic background light, gamma-ray bursts, Fermi acceleration, ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and black holes.


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