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Exploring the Extreme Universe with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space TelescopeIn ways similar to experiments in nuclear and particle physics, high-energy astrophysics usesgamma rays and energetic charged particles toprobe processes that involve large energy transfers.Since its launch in 2008, the international Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has been exploringnatural particle accelerators and the interactionsof high-energy particles in the universe. Withsources ranging from thunderstorms on Earth to galaxies and exploding stars in distant parts of the cosmos, the telescopes subjects of study are almostas diverse as were those of the scientist whose name it bears.
Document ID
20140009227
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
External Source(s)
doi:10.1063/PT.3.1787
Authors
Thompson, David J. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Digel, Seth W. (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Menlo Park, CA, United States)
Racusin, Judith L. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Date Acquired
July 16, 2014
Publication Date
November 1, 2012
Publication Information
Publication: Physics Today
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Volume: 65
Issue: 11
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN9747
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
extreme
universe
telescope

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