Detection of Extended Emission from Fornax A and Measurement of the Extragalactic Background Light

Prior to the launch of Fermi in 2008, the radio galaxy Fornax A was identified as one of the few extragalactic objects that might be detected as spatially extended above 100 MeV. However, even though it was detected with high confidence in the first 2 years of the mission, it was not determined to be an extended source. Recently, the Fermi-LAT collaboration developed a new event-level analysis called Pass 8 which yields a larger acceptance, a better angular and energy resolution, as well as smaller systematic uncertainties. The~improvements provided with Pass 8 combined with a longer exposure means that the spatial extension of Fornax A is significantly detected, making it only the second extragalactic gamma-ray source so far to show extent. Details of this measurement will be presented along with~modeling of the emission above 100 MeV.