The Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository
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2023-01-04
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This work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.
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The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) light curve repository (LCR) is a publicly available, continually updated library of gamma-ray light curves of variable Fermi-LAT sources generated over multiple
timescales. The Fermi-LAT LCR aims to provide publication-quality light curves binned on timescales
of 3 days, 7 days, and 30 days for 1525 sources deemed variable in the source catalog of the first
10 years of Fermi-LAT observations. The repository consists of light curves generated through full
likelihood analyses that model the sources and the surrounding region, providing fluxes and photon indices for each time bin. The LCR is intended as a resource for the time-domain and multi-messenger
communities by allowing users to quickly search LAT data to identify correlated variability and flaring
emission episodes from gamma-ray sources. We describe the sample selection and analysis employed
by the LCR and provide an overview of the associated data access portal.