A history of extreme explosions GeV flares in Fermi-LAT variable sources

The study of temporal variability of astrophysical sources, particularly flares, is pivotal to understanding the physics that underlies those variations, many of which are not well understood. These variations could be tied to unobservable activities in accreting objects, to the precession of collimated relativistic plasma, the nature of the parent particle population, changes in the field strength or particle acceleration in the emission zone.

Studying the variable emission from gamma-ray cataloged sources can be challenging, since generating mission-long well-sampled light curves is computationally expensive. In this contribution, we make use of the publication-quality, mission-long, continuously updated Fermi-LAT Light Curve Repository data to circumvent this issue, validate it, and, for the first time, extract variability features such as duty cycles, flare duration and baseline behaviors. We present our findings on the characteristics of these flares according to the source type.