Fermi Large Area Telescope Bright Gamma-ray Source List
arXiv:0902.1340 · doi:10.1088/0067-0049/183/1/46
Abstract
Following its launch in June 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) began a sky survey in August. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on Fermi in 3 months produced a deeper and better-resolved map of the gamma-ray sky than any previous space mission. We present here initial results for energies above 100 MeV for the 205 most significant (statistical significance greater than ~10-sigma) gamma-ray sources in these data. These are the best-characterized and best-localized point-like (i.e., spatially unresolved) gamma-ray sources in the early-mission data.
Accepted by ApJS. Many helpful comments by referee incorporated 57 pages, 12 figures