The Fermi Observatory View of the Gamma-ray Sky

Presented by Dr. Greg Madejski, KIPAC/Stanford University

  Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been operating for nearly five years, and is providing excellent data for celestial gamma-ray sources, but it is also capable of measuring the spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons. This presentation will highlight the recent results from Fermi's Large Area Telescope, and will cover new insights resulting from the measurements of gamma-ray properties of rotating neutron stars (pulsars), supernova remnants, and gamma-ray bursts; it will cover in more detail the new insights gleaned from observations of relativistic jets in active galaxies. In addition, the speaker, a member of the team that recently launched the first imaging hard X-ray observatory NuSTAR, will highlight the first results from that satellite.