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The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Bright Source ListJean BalletJean BalletSApSAp, CEA , CEA SaclaySaclayOn behalf of the On behalf of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)CollaborationCollaboration
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The LAT Bright Source List (0FGL)• During the early part of the Fermi mission, the Large Area
Telescope (LAT) team is optimizing calibrations, analysis methods, and background subtraction techniques.
• The brightest sources seen by LAT are less influenced by these ongoing improvements than are weaker sources.
• Releasing information about the brightest sources early has two principal goals:
1. Provide opportunities for multi-λ studies of these sources;
2. Facilitate proposals for the second cycle of Fermi Guest Investigator proposals (US only), due on March 6.
• The release date for the bright source list is February 6 at http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/
• This list is a first step toward the first LAT catalog, due in the Fall of this year.
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ExposureExposure mapmap
Equivalent on-axis observing time, Galactic coordinates, Aitoff projectionMs
• Data used are the first three months of all-sky scanning data, Aug. - Oct. 2008. Total live time is 7.53 Ms
• Scanning scheme makes exposure map very uniform (SAA creates 25% North-South asymmetry)
PRELIMINARY
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Constructing the LAT Bright Source List
• 2.8 M events above 100 MeV with current cuts
• Maximum likelihood analysis was used to determine locations, source significance, fluxes below and above 1 GeV, and variability information, all of which is included in the list.
• Only sources with confidence level greater than 10 σ over 3 months were retained for the bright source list.
• Associations with known sources are provided
• The resulting bright source list is not a catalog:
• Not complete - many more sources at lower significance
• Not flux limited - cut is on confidence level
• Not uniform - sources near the Galactic plane must be brighter because of the strong diffuse background.
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10-7 ph/cm2/sPRELIMINARY
SensitivitySensitivity mapmap
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• Structure is mostly that of the interstellar medium
• Below 10-7 ph/cm2/s outside the Galaxy (|b| > 10°)
Flux > 100 MeV required to reach 10 σ for average E-2.2 spectrum
Galactic coordinates, Aitoff projection
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205 LAT Bright Sources
Front > 200 MeV, Back > 400 MeV
Galactic coordinates, Aitoff projection
PRELIMINARY
Crosses mark source locations, in Galactic coordinates. 1/3 at |b| < 10°. Only 60 clearly associated with 3EG EGRET catalog. The sky changes!
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Source Source localizationlocalization• Alignment slightly adjusted in flight
• Conservative error radii adjusted on known associations
• Conservative 0.04° absolute limit based on bright pulsars
PRELIMINARY
10 100 1000Significance (σ units)
Better than 20’ for bright sources
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The variable Fermi The variable Fermi skysky
1-day snapshots, > 100 MeV, viewed from the poles (orthographic proj). Red is significant.The Sun is clearly visible moving downwards right of the North pole
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Source Source variabilityvariability• Build light curves of all sources on one-week time scale
• Pulsars are stable within 3%
• Bright blazars are very clearly variable
• Variability index: χ2 criterion against constant hypothesis.
Geminga pulsar J0235+164 blazar
Not at same scale!
PRELIMINARY
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Source Source variabilityvariability 22• Flag as variable for probability < 1%
• 1/3 sources flagged as variable
• Not very large fractional variability
Variable sources
PRELIMINARY
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Source Source variabilityvariability 33
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• Many blazars are too faint (even at > 10 σ) to be detected as variable even if they were
• Many fewer variable sources in the plane
Galactic coordinates, Aitoff projection
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Source associationSource association
PRELIMINARY
• 2/3 of the sources at |b|>10°, mostly AGN (hear B. Lott on Wednesday)
• Not that many unassociated outside the plane
• Globular cluster 47 Tuc (plenty of ms pulsars)
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Source association 2Source association 2• Most associated sources in the Galaxy are pulsars (hear
F. Giordano’s talk today and D. Smith on Wednesday)
• Many unassociated sources in the inner regions of the Galaxy
PRELIMINARY
Close-up on the Galactic ridge
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205 Preliminary LAT Bright Sources
Conclusions
• EGRET on the Compton Observatory found only 31 sources above 10 σ in its lifetime.
• Typical 95% error radius is less than 10 arcmin. For the brightest sources, it is less than 3 arcmin. Improvements are expected.
• About 1/3 of the sources show definite evidence of variability.
• 29 pulsars are identified by gamma-ray pulsations.
• Over half the sources are associated positionally with blazars. Some of these are firmly identified as blazars by correlated multiwavelength variability.
• Over 40 sources have no obvious associations with known gamma-ray emitting types of astrophysical objects.
• Additional results on many of these sources at this meeting.
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Fermi-LAT3 monthsFront > 200 MeVBack > 400 MeV
Orthographicprojection