This paper presents a new and efficient algorithm for finding point sources in the photon event data stream from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. It can rapidly construct about most significant half of the Fermi Third Point Source catalogue (3FGL) with nearly 80% purity from the four years of data used to construct the catalogue. If a higher purity sample is desirable, one can achieve a sample that includes the most significant third of the Fermi 3FGL with only five percent of the sources unassociated with Fermi sources. Outside the galaxy plane, the contamination is essentially negligible. This software allows for rapid exploration of the Fermi data, simulation of the source detection to calculate the selection function of various sources and the errors in the obtained parameters of the sources detected.
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