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1. A neural network classifier for electron identification on the DAMPE experiment

Author: Francesca Alemanno, Dimitrios Kyratzis, D. Droz, Margherita Di Santo, Enrico Catanzani, Stephan Zimmer, Giovanni Ambrosi, Andrii Tykhonov, and Xin Wu
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Proton, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Electron, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle detector, Particle identification, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Positron, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic-ray observatory, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Mathematical Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, COSMIC cancer database, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Computational physics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-borne particle detector and cosmic ray observatory in operation since 2015, designed to probe electrons and gamma rays from a few GeV to 10 TeV energy, as well as cosmic protons and nuclei up to 100 TeV. Among the main scientific objectives is the precise measurement of the cosmic electron+positron flux, which due to the very large proton background in orbit requires a powerful particle identification method. In the past decade, the field of machine learning has provided us the needed tools. This paper presents a neural network based approach to cosmic electron identification and proton rejection and showcases its performances based on simulated Monte Carlo data. The neural network reaches significantly lower background than the classical, cut-based method for the same detection efficiency, especially at highest energies. A good matching between simulations and real data completes the picture., 19 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of Instrumentation (JINST)
Published: 2021
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2. Relativistic protons in the Coma galaxy cluster: first gamma-ray constraints ever on turbulent reacceleration

Author: Stephan Zimmer, Fabio Zandanel, G. Brunetti, and GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI)
Subjects: Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Electron, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Parameter space, 01 natural sciences, Magnetic field, Radio halo, Space and Planetary Science, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Coma Cluster, Halo, 010306 general physics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster
Abstract: The Fermi-LAT collaboration recently published deep upper limits to the gamma-ray emission of the Coma cluster, a cluster that hosts the prototype of giant radio halos. In this paper we extend previous studies and use a formalism that combines particle reacceleration by turbulence and the generation of secondary particles in the intracluster medium to constrain relativistic protons and their role for the origin of the radio halo. We conclude that a pure hadronic origin of the radio halo is clearly disfavoured as it would require magnetic fields that are too strong. For instance $B_0 > 21 ��$G is found in the cluster center assuming that the magnetic energy density scales with thermal density, to be compared with $B_0 \sim 4-5 ��$G as inferred from Rotation Measures (RM) under the same assumption. However secondary particles can still generate the observed radio emission if they are reaccelerated. For the first time the deep gamma-ray limits allow us to derive meaningful constraints if the halo is generated during phases of reacceleration of relativistic protons and their secondaries by cluster-scale turbulence. In this paper we explore a relevant range of parameter-space of reacceleration models. Within this parameter space a fraction of model configurations is already ruled out by current gamma-ray limits, including the cases that assume weak magnetic fields in the cluster core, $B \leq 2-3 ��$G. Interestingly, we also find that the flux predicted by a large fraction of model configurations that assume a magnetic field consistent with RM is not far from the limits. This suggests that a detection of gamma rays from the cluster might be possible in the near future, provided that the electrons generating the radio halo are secondaries reaccelerated and the magnetic field in the cluster is consistent with that inferred from RM., 22 pages, 12 figures, submitted
Published: 2017

3. A Search for Cosmic-ray Proton Anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: Eleonora Troja, Soebur Razzaque, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Giacomo Principe, F. Piron, G. Chiaro, M. Kuss, Abhishek Desai, Kazuhiko Hayashi, Regina Caputo, T. A. Porter, E. Orlando, Dario Gasparrini, Hiroyasu Tajima, Keith Bechtol, S. Maldera, Stefano Ciprini, Ioannis Liodakis, E. J. Siskind, Francesco Longo, G. Martí-Devesa, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Matthew Meehan, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, V. S. Paliya, D. Serini, Diego F. Torres, M. Razzano, Yasushi Fukazawa, Filippo D'Ammando, A. Reimer, Justin Vandenbroucke, G. Jóhannesson, F. de Palma, Manuel Meyer, Alessandro Cuoco, Guido Barbiellini, P. Fusco, I. Mereu, T. J. Brandt, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Seth Digel, David A. Green, S. J. Fegan, Elizabeth Hays, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, D. J. Suson, S. Cutini, J. W. Hewitt, Eric Nuss, Sina Chen, Massimo Persic, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, G. Spandre, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, Mn Mazziotta, D. Costantin, Stephan Zimmer, David Paneque, Luca Latronico, P. de la Torre Luque, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Stefan Funk, Denis Bastieri, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Roger Blandford, Nicola Omodei, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, M. Orienti, L. Di Venere, F. Loparco, Nicola Giglietto, Aaron Dominguez, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, M. Yassine, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, P. Lubrano, S. Buson, J. Li, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, Warit Mitthumsiri, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, F. Gargano, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Fermi-LAT, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bruel, P., Buson, S., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Cavazzuti, E., Chen, S., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Costantin, D., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D’Ammando, F., de la Torre Luque, P., de Palma, F., Desai, A., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Venere, L., Domínguez, A., Fegan, S. J., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hayashi, K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Kuss, M., Latronico, L., Li, J., Liodakis, I., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Martí-Devesa, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Meehan, M., Mereu, I., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Paliya, V. S., Paneque, D., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Principe, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Serini, D., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Vandenbroucke, J., Yassine, M., Zimmer, S., Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Fermi-Lat Collaboration, T., D'Ammando, F., De La Torre Luque, P., De Palma, F., Dominguez, A., Johannesson, G., Marti-Devesa, G., Raino, S., Sgro, C., ITA, and USA
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Proton, High-energy astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Galactic cosmic rays, High-energy astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, cosmic radiation: anisotropy, GLAST, Galactic cosmic ray, law.invention, Telescope, Primary (astronomy), law, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear Experiment, Anisotropy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: primary, p: energy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, p: cosmic radiation, anisotropy: dipole, ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has amassed a large data set of primary cosmic-ray protons throughout its mission. The LAT's wide field of view and full-sky survey capabilities make it an excellent instrument for studying cosmic-ray anisotropy. As a space-based survey instrument, the LAT is sensitive to anisotropy in both right ascension and declination, while ground-based observations only measure the anisotropy in right ascension. We present the results of the first ever proton anisotropy search using Fermi LAT. The data set uses eight years of data and consists of approximately 179 million protons above 78 GeV, enabling it to probe dipole anisotropy below an amplitude of $10^{-3}$, resulting in the most stringent limits on the declination dependence of the dipole to date. We measure a dipole amplitude $\delta = 3.9\pm1.5 \times 10^{-4}$ with a p-value of 0.01 (pre-trials) for protons with a minimum energy of 78 GeV. We discuss various systematic effects that could give rise to a dipole excess and calculate upper limits on the dipole amplitude as a function of minimum energy. The 95% CL upper limit on the dipole amplitude is $\delta_{UL}=1.3\times 10^{-3}$ for protons with a minimum energy of 78 GeV and $\delta_{UL}=1.2 \times 10^{-3}$ for protons with a minimum energy of 251 GeV., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, Contact authors: Matthew Meehan (mrmeehan@wisc.edu) and Justin Vandenbroucke (justin.vandenbroucke@wisc.edu)
Published: 2019
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4. Search for features in the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectrum measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: M. N. Mazziotta, Stephan Zimmer, F. Gargano, F. Loparco, F. Costanza, Alessandro Cuoco, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP/Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP)
Subjects: exotic, 95.85.Ry, Cosmic rays, dark matter, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, energy spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, GLAST, law.invention, thermal, cross section: annihilation, Telescope, S030DMA, Positron, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, Dark Matter, 010306 general physics, Cosmic rays, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), electron positron, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, dark matter: mass, dark matter: decay, electron: cosmic radiation, dark matter: annihilation, Galaxy, Cosmic-ray Electrons and Positrons, 95.35.+d, galaxy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], signature, positron: cosmic radiation, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has collected the largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events. Possible features in their energy spectrum could be a signature of the presence of nearby astrophysical sources, or of more exotic sources, such as annihilation or decay of dark matter (DM) particles in the Galaxy. In this paper for the first time we search for a delta-like line feature in the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectrum. We also search for a possible feature originating from DM particles annihilating into electron-positron pairs. Both searches yield negative results, but we are able to set constraints on the line intensity and on the velocity-averaged DM annihilation cross section. Our limits extend up to DM masses of 1.7 $TeV/c^2$, and exclude the thermal value of the annihilation cross-section for DM lighter than 150 $GeV/c^2$., Comment: Matches the version accepted by PRD; the limit has been extended up to 1.7 TeV overlapping most of the region covered by DAMPE and CALET ; 10 pages and 9 figures
Published: 2018
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5. An algorithm to resolve {\gamma}-rays from charged cosmic rays with DAMPE

Author: Ya-Peng Zhang, Stephan Zimmer, Meng Su, M. M. Salinas, Shi-Jun Lei, Yun-Feng Liang, Kai-Kai Duan, Z. Xu, Tie-Kuang Dong, Xiang Li, Dongya Guo, Yunlong Zhang, Chuan Yue, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Jing-Jing Zang, S. Garrappa, Qiang Yuan, Wei Jiang, F. Gargano, V. Vagelli, and M. N. Mazziotta
Subjects: Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Electron, 01 natural sciences, Calculation methods, Charged particle, Particle detector, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Pulsar, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Scintillation counter, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Lepton
Abstract: The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), also known as Wukong in China, launched on December 17, 2015, is a new high energy cosmic ray and {\gamma}-ray satellite-borne observatory in space. One of the main scientific goals of DAMPE is to observe GeV-TeV high energy {\gamma}-rays with accurate energy, angular, and time resolution, to indirectly search for dark matter particles and for the study of high energy astrophysics. Due to the comparatively higher fluxes of charged cosmic rays with respect to {\gamma}-rays, it is challenging to identify {\gamma}-rays with sufficiently high efficiency minimizing the amount of charged cosmic ray contamination. In this work we present a method to identify {\gamma}-rays in DAMPE data based on Monte Carlo simulations, using the powerful electromagnetic/hadronic shower discrimination provided by the calorimeter and the veto detection of charged particles provided by the plastic scintillation detector. Monte Carlo simulations show that after this selection the number of electrons and protons that contaminate the selected {\gamma}-ray events at $\sim10$ GeV amounts to less than 1% of the selected sample. Finally, we use flight data to verify the effectiveness of the method by highlighting known {\gamma}-ray sources in the sky and by reconstructing preliminary light curves of the Geminga pulsar., Comment: 15 pages,16 figures
Published: 2017

6. The DArk Matter Particle Explorer mission

Author: M. M. Ma, Y.L. Xin, Shengxia Zhang, Y. Y. Huang, Y. Z. Gong, H.Y. Zhao, P. Fusco, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Peidong Yang, Zhao-Min Wang, Yuan Zhu Wang, Maria Ionica, Jie Kong, Yun Long Zhang, F. Loparco, Dan Jiang, J.N. Dong, Y. L. Li, X. Y. Peng, J. L. Chen, H. S. Chen, S. C. Wen, Y. F. Dong, Jinglai Duan, P. Azzarello, N. H. Liao, X. L. Wang, M. M. Salinas, M. Caragiulo, Ya Peng Zhang, M. Pohl, V. Gallo, W. Zhang, Andrii Tykhonov, Niu Xiaoyang, Hai Tao Xu, X. X. Li, Shi-Jun Lei, G. Marsella, Wei Jiang, Min Gao, M. S. Cai, X. Zhu, Z. X. Dong, Yong Zhou, S. Y. Ma, Wei Liang Li, A. De Benedittis, Q. An, Sha Wu, Deng Yi Chen, Y. F. Wei, J.B. Zhang, T.T. Miao, G. F. Xue, Chuan Yue, Z.L. Yang, Y.F. Liang, P. Bernardini, Yifan Yang, Laiyu Zhang, Jianyi Yang, W. X. Peng, Z. M. Zhang, Giacinto Donvito, L. G. Wang, J. G. Lu, Y. J. Zhang, R. Qiao, Shan-Shan Gao, Zi-Qing Xia, Hui Jun Yao, Zhi-Yu Sun, Fang Fang, Yi-Zhong Fan, S. Vitillo, Jie Liu, S. Li, J. J. Wei, R. R. Fan, Lei Feng, Y. Zhu, K. Xi, A. D'Amone, Peng-Xiong Ma, Ping Zhang, Xun Feng Zhao, Jianli Zhang, M. N. Mazziotta, H. Su, Di Wu, Y. M. Hu, Da Ming Wei, Chang Yi Zhou, A. Surdo, Yang Liu, Yen-Po Wang, D. Droz, D. D'Urso, W. Chen, Jian Wu, Jin Zhou Wang, F. Zhang, Q. Wang, Jian Hua Guo, M. Duranti, X. J. Teng, Tie-Kuang Dong, I. De Mitri, Xiao Yong Ma, W. H. Shen, X.B. Tian, Chao Zhang, Z. T. Shen, Hong Yun Zhao, Z. Xu, Chang Qing Feng, T. S. Cui, Chunjie Wang, Ju-Xian Song, G. Ambrosi, Q.Z. Liu, Xiaohui Wang, Haiyan Wang, Y. Zhang, X.Q. Ma, Meng Su, D. Mo, Yan Fang Wang, R. Asfandiyarov, Yao Ming Liang, B. Bertucci, Stephan Zimmer, Guang Shun Huang, Yang Haibo, X. Jin, Zhenyu Zhang, M. Di Santo, Tao Ma, Xin Wu, M. Y. Cui, Yongjie Zhang, Yu-Hong Yu, H. Liu, J. N. Rao, Qiang Yuan, S. B. Liu, Jilong Zhang, Chi Wang, W.Q. Gan, Wenqiang Liu, V. Vagelli, Zi Zong Xu, Jin Chang, F. J. Gan, F. Gargano, D.L. Zhang, H. W. Wang, Kai-Kai Duan, K. Gong, G. Z. Shang, Shu Xin Wang, J. J. Zang, Chang, J., Ambrosi, G., An, Q., Asfandiyarov, R., Azzarello, P., Bernardini, P., Bertucci, B., Cai, M. S., Caragiulo, M., Chen, D. Y., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. L., Chen, W., Cui, M. Y., Cui, T. S., D'Amone, A., DE BENEDITTIS, Antonio, De Mitri, I., DI SANTO, Margherita, Dong, J. N., Dong, T. K., Dong, Y. F., Dong, Z. X., Donvito, G., Droz, D., Duan, K. K., Duan, J. L., Duranti, M., D'Urso, D., Fan, R. R., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, F., Feng, C. Q., Feng, L., Fusco, P., Gallo, V., Gan, F. J., Gan, W. Q., Gao, M., Gao, S. S., Gargano, F., Gong, K., Gong, Y. Z., Guo, J. H., Hu, Y. M., Huang, G. S., Huang, Y. Y., Ionica, M., Jiang, D., Jiang, W., Jin, X., Kong, J., Lei, S. J., Li, S., Li, X., Li, W. L., Li, Y., Liang, Y. F., Liang, Y. M., Liao, N. H., Liu, Q. Z., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, S. B., Liu, W. Q., Liu, Y., Loparco, F., Lã¼, J., Ma, M., Ma, P. X., Ma, S. Y., Ma, T., Ma, X. Q., Ma, X. Y., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mo, D., Miao, T. T., Niu, X. Y., Pohl, M., Peng, X. Y., Peng, W. X., Qiao, R., Rao, J. N., Salinas, M. M., Shang, G. Z., Shen, W. H., Shen, Z. Q., Shen, Z. T., Song, J. X., Su, H., Su, M., Sun, Z. Y., Surdo, A., Teng, X. J., Tian, X. B., Tykhonov, A., Vagelli, V., Vitillo, S., Wang, C., Wang, Chi, Wang, H., Wang, H. Y., Wang, J. Z., Wang, L. G., Wang, Q., Wang, S., Wang, X. H., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Y. P., Wang, Y. Z., Wen, S. C., Wang, Z. M., Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. F., Wu, D., Wu, J., Wu, S. S., Wu, X., Xi, K., Xia, Z. Q., Xin, Y. L., Xu, H. T., Xu, Z. L., Xu, Z. Z., Xue, G. F., Yang, H. B., Yang, J., Yang, P., Yang, Y. Q., Yang, Z. L., Yao, H. J., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, C., Zang, J. J., Zhang, C., Zhang, D. L., Zhang, F., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. Y., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, L., Zhang, P. F., Zhang, S. X., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. Q., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, H., Zhao, H. Y., Zhao, X. F., Zhou, C. Y., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y., Zimmer, S., DE BENEDITTIS, ANTONIO, DI SANTO, MARGHERITA, and LÃ¼, J.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Satellite launches, Gamma ray observatories, Astrophysics, Galactic cosmic rays, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), Observatory, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, Cosmic rays , dark matter , space experiments, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, physics.ins-det, Space science missions, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), astro-ph.HE, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Cosmology, Galaxies, Gamma rays, Tellurium compounds, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dark matter particles, Explorer missions, Galactic cosmic rays, Gamma ray observatories, Satellite launches, Scientific objectives, Space science missions, Cosmic rays, Space Science, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Particle Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics and Astronomy, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, dark matter, Tellurium compounds, 0103 physical sciences, Cosmic rays, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, Gamma rays, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies, Chinese academy of sciences, Galaxy, Scientific objectives, Dark matter particles, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Satellite, space experiments, Explorer missions, astro-ph.IM
Abstract: The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), one of the four scientific space science missions within the framework of the Strategic Pioneer Program on Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a general purpose high energy cosmic-ray and gamma-ray observatory, which was successfully launched on December 17th, 2015 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. The DAMPE scientific objectives include the study of galactic cosmic rays up to $\sim 10$ TeV and hundreds of TeV for electrons/gammas and nuclei respectively, and the search for dark matter signatures in their spectra. In this paper we illustrate the layout of the DAMPE instrument, and discuss the results of beam tests and calibrations performed on ground. Finally we present the expected performance in space and give an overview of the mission key scientific goals., 45 pages, including 29 figures and 6 tables. Published in Astropart. Phys
Published: 2017

7. A Parameterized Energy Correction Method for Electromagnetic Showers in BGO-ECAL of DAMPE

Author: Zhiyong Zhang, Jing-Jing Zang, Daming Wei, Chuan Yue, Tie-Kuang Dong, Yunlong Zhang, Xiang Li, Wei Jiang, and Stephan Zimmer
Subjects: Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Primary energy, Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), 0103 physical sciences, Detectors and Experimental Techniques, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, physics.ins-det, Physics, Large Hadron Collider, Calorimeter (particle physics), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, hep-ex, Resolution (electron density), Detector, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Linearity, Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det), Cathode ray, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Energy (signal processing), Particle Physics - Experiment
Abstract: DAMPE is a space-based mission designed as a high energy particle detector measuring cosmic-rays and $\gamma-$rays which was successfully launched on Dec.17, 2015. The BGO electromagnetic calorimeter is one of the key sub-detectors of DAMPE for energy measurement of electromagnetic showers produced by $e^{\pm}/{\gamma}$. Due to energy loss in dead material and energy leakage outside the calorimeter, the deposited energy in BGO underestimates the primary energy of incident $e^{\pm}/{\gamma}$. In this paper, based on detailed MC simulations, a parameterized energy correction method using the lateral and longitudinal information of electromagnetic showers has been studied and verified with data of electron beam test at CERN. The measurements of energy linearity and resolution are significantly improved by applying this correction method for electromagnetic showers., Comment: 10 figures, to be published in Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A
Published: 2017

8. The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter

Author: Dario Gasparrini, J. Ballet, Francesco Longo, Elisabetta Bissaldi, L. Latronico, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, K. Tanaka, P. Bruel, A. S. Johnson, S. W. Digel, T. Ohsugi, M. Orienti, M. Ackermann, Eric Charles, Eleonora Troja, D. Malyshev, Yasunobu Uchiyama, T. H. Burnett, Soebur Razzaque, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, Warit Mitthumsiri, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, John W. Hewitt, T. Jogler, G. Barbiellini, M. Kuss, M. Di Mauro, F. de Palma, D. J. Suson, W. B. Focke, T. J. Brandt, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Frederic Piron, Alice K. Harding, Diego F. Torres, Giacomo Principe, Alessandro Cuoco, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Matthew Wood, E. Orlando, L. Tibaldo, Jingcheng Li, James Chiang, Andrea Chiappo, Francesco Giordano, Nicola Giglietto, R. Desiante, Roger Blandford, M. Caragiulo, R. A. Cameron, P. Spinelli, R. Buehler, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Giacomo Vianello, Matteo Negro, A. Morselli, M. N. Lovellette, J. Bregeon, P. A. Caraveo, R. Bonino, Nestor Mirabal, Massimo Persic, Persis S. Drell, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, K. S. Wood, Olaf Reimer, D. Horan, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, S. Rainò, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Elliott D. Bloom, Claudia Cecchi, Sylvain Guiriec, Andrea Albert, F. Spada, R. Caputo, F. Gargano, Hiroyasu Tajima, S. J. Fegan, Jan Conrad, Stefan Larsson, C. Favuzzi, G. La Mura, E. J. Siskind, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Gustafsson, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierrick Martin, J. D. Magill, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, Anna Franckowiak, Tsunefumi Mizuno, A. Reimer, E. Hays, Stephan Zimmer, G. Chiaro, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, D. Kocevski, T. Glanzman, F. Loparco, M. E. Monzani, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Denis Bastieri, S. Ciprini, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, J. F. Ormes, P. Fusco, Stefan Funk, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, D. Simone, David Paneque, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, L. Guillemot, E. Nuss, L. Di Venere, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Burnett, T. H., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiappo, A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Conrad, J., Costanza, F., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Gomez-Vargas, G. A., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Johnson, A. S., Kamae, T., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Martin, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Persic, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Principe, G., Raino, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sanchez-Conde, M., Sgro, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Tanaka, K., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Zimmer, S., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier ( LUPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace ( LPC2E ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay ( USN ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université d'Orléans ( UO ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), D’Ammando, F., Palma, F. de, Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Gomez Vargas, G. A., Mura, G. La, Longo, Francesco, Pesce Rollins, M., Rainò, S., Sánchez Conde, M., Sgrò, C., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ITA
Subjects: [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy: bulge, propagation, gamma ray: flux, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, cosmic ray, Physics, general [ISM], Galaxy: center, Galactic Center, center [Galaxy], gamma ray: emission, cosmic radiation, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, bulge [Galaxy], Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic rays, Galaxy: halo, gamma rays: general, ISM: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, cross section: annihilation, Galactic halo, gas, 0103 physical sciences, conservation law, halo [Galaxy], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, bubble, Astronomy, dark matter: annihilation, Galactic plane, Galaxy, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The region around the Galactic center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and catalogs of known gamma-ray sources. We study the GeV excess using 6.5 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We characterize the uncertainty of the GC excess spectrum and morphology due to uncertainties in cosmic-ray source distributions and propagation, uncertainties in the distribution of interstellar gas in the Milky Way, and uncertainties due to a potential contribution from the Fermi bubbles. We also evaluate uncertainties in the excess properties due to resolved point sources of gamma rays. The Galactic center is of particular interest as it would be expected to have the brightest signal from annihilation of weakly interacting massive dark matter particles. However, control regions along the Galactic plane, where a dark-matter signal is not expected, show excesses of similar amplitude relative to the local background. Based on the magnitude of the systematic uncertainties, we conservatively report upper limits for the annihilation cross section as function of particle mass and annihilation channel., Comment: Contact authors: A. Albert, E. Charles, A. Franckowiak, D. Malyshev, L. Tibaldo. 63 pages, 34 figures. Published in ApJ
Published: 2017
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9. On the Connection between Turbulent Motions and Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Clusters

Author: Stephan Zimmer, Franco Vazza, Fabio Gastaldello, A. Tramacere, Stéphane Paltani, Stefano Ettori, Massimo Gaspari, Dominique Eckert, Eckert, D., Gaspari, M., Vazza, F., Gastaldello, F., Tramacere, A., Zimmer, S., Ettori, S., and Paltani, S.
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, radio continuum: general, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particle, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, turbulence, Velocity dispersion, Astronomy and Astrophysics, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Particle acceleration, Amplitude, Radio halo, galaxies: clusters: general, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Halo, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Giant radio halos are Mpc-scale diffuse radio sources associated with the central regions of galaxy clusters. The most promising scenario to explain the origin of these sources is that of turbulent re-acceleration, in which MeV electrons injected throughout the formation history of galaxy clusters are accelerated to higher energies by turbulent motions mostly induced by cluster mergers. In this Letter, we use the amplitude of density fluctuations in the intracluster medium as a proxy for the turbulent velocity and apply this technique to a sample of 51 clusters with available radio data. Our results indicate a segregation in the turbulent velocity of radio halo and radio quiet clusters, with the turbulent velocity of the former being on average higher by about a factor of two. The velocity dispersion recovered with this technique correlates with the measured radio power through the relation $P_{\rm radio}\propto\sigma_v^{3.3\pm0.7}$, which implies that the radio power is nearly proportional to the turbulent energy rate. Our results provide an observational confirmation of a key prediction of the turbulent re-acceleration model and possibly shed light on the origin of radio halos., Comment: Submitted to ApJ Letters
Published: 2017
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10. Direct detection of a break in the teraelectronvolt cosmic-ray spectrum of electrons and positrons

Author: J. N. Rao, D. M. Wei, P. Azzarello, Peng-Xiong Ma, Y. H. Yu, Shan-Shan Gao, Chi Wang, Q. An, L. G. Wang, YM Liang, Dong Ya Guo, Min Gao, Z. X. Dong, Jie Liu, Tianxiao Ma, Donghong Chen, Wei Liu, Yifan Yang, Zhihua Zhang, Jun-jun Guo, Y. F. Liang, S. Wang, Huan Zhao, D.L. Zhang, X.Q. Ma, Maria Ionica, Jie Kong, G. Ambrosi, Luzhao Feng, Yu-Sa Wang, Fang Fang, N. H. Liao, D. Mo, Niu Xiaoyang, Yaping Wang, R. Qiao, Qiuju Yuan, I. De Mitri, X.B. Tian, Z. Z. Xu, Zheng Wang, Michael Ma, R. Asfandiyarov, X. X. Li, Y. M. Hu, M. S. Cai, Guangshun Huang, M. Di Santo, H. Liu, J.N. Dong, Z.-Q. Shen, Zhongjie Yang, W. X. Peng, Peidong Yang, Jialong Chen, Stephan Zimmer, Y. F. Wei, K. Xi, Laiyu Zhang, Zhi-Yu Sun, W. Li, F. Loparco, X. L. Wang, Chao Zhang, Y. J. Zhang, Y. Z. Gong, Jindong Zhang, X. Y. Ma, M. Duranti, Kai-Kai Duan, Y. Zhang, Yun-Zhi Zhang, R. R. Fan, Valerio Vagelli, Xixian Wang, Ju-Xian Song, G. Marsella, Meng Su, Yaohui Zhang, Xian-Min Jin, S.X. Li, S. B. Liu, Huijun Yao, Andrii Tykhonov, J. J. Wei, Lihui Wu, X. Y. Peng, H. T. Xu, Yujuan Liu, Hong Yun Zhao, Jie Zhang, S. Y. Ma, Z. Q. Xia, Dan Jiang, Yali Zhou, X. J. Teng, Tie-Kuang Dong, S. C. Wen, Y. Li, A. D'Amone, Yi-Zhong Fan, K. Gong, J. Z. Wang, Yugang Zhang, H. S. Chen, Chengrui Zhou, Giacinto Donvito, Yang Haibo, Zhoubin Zhang, P. Bernardini, W. H. Shen, M. Y. Cui, G. Z. Shang, Chuan Yue, Jindan Zhang, Di Wu, Xin-Fu Zhao, Y. Y. Huang, Z. T. Shen, Qian Wang, P. Fusco, Shumei Wu, J. J. Zang, Y. F. Dong, Jinfei Wu, C. Q. Feng, Jinglai Duan, Huaguang Wang, B. Bertucci, Jin Chang, F. J. Gan, F. Gargano, M. N. Mazziotta, H. Su, Haiqiong Wang, Fengtao Zhang, Z. Xu, Pengchao Zhang, Xin Wu, Y. F. Wang, S. Vitillo, D. Droz, T. S. Cui, V. Gallo, W. Zhang, Wei Jiang, G. F. Xue, S. Garrappa, Yu-Xuan Zhu, D. D'Urso, Shi-Jun Lei, M. M. Salinas, Y.L. Xin, Xi Zhu, Shengxia Zhang, A. Surdo, A. De Benedittis, Wangli Chen, Ambrosi, G., An, Q., Asfandiyarov, R., Azzarello, P., Bernardini, P., Bertucci, B., Cai, M. S., Chang, J., Chen, D. Y., Chen, H. F., Chen, J. L., Chen, W., Cui, M. Y., Cui, T. S., D’Amone, A., De Benedittis, A., De Mitri, I., Di Santo, M., Dong, J. N., Dong, T. K., Dong, Y. F., Dong, Z. X., Donvito, G., Droz, D., Duan, K. K., Duan, J. L., Duranti, M., D’Urso, D., Fan, R. R., Fan, Y. Z., Fang, F., Feng, C. Q., Feng, L., Fusco, P., Gallo, V., Gan, F. J., Gao, M., Gao, S. S., Gargano, F., Garrappa, S., Gong, K., Gong, Y. Z., Guo, D. Y., Guo, J. H., Hu, Y. M., Huang, G. S., Huang, Y. Y., Ionica, M., Jiang, D., Jiang, W., Jin, X., Kong, J., Lei, S. J., Li, S., Li, X., Li, W. L., Li, Y., Liang, Y. F., Liang, Y. M., Liao, N. H., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, S. B., Liu, W. Q., Liu, Y., Loparco, F., Ma, M., Ma, P. X., Ma, S. Y., Ma, T., Ma, X. Q., Ma, X. Y., Marsella, G., Mazziotta, M. N., Mo, D., Niu, X. Y., Peng, X. Y., Peng, W. X., Qiao, R., Rao, J. N., Salinas, M. M., Shang, G. Z., H. Shen, W., Shen, Z. Q., Shen, Z. T., Song, J. X., Su, H., Su, M., Sun, Z. Y., Surdo, A., Teng, X. J., Tian, X. B., Tykhonov, A., Vagelli, V., Vitillo, S., Wang, C., Wang, H., Wang, H. Y., Wang, J. Z., Wang, L. G., Wang, Q., Wang, S., Wang, X. H., Wang, X. L., Wang, Y. F., Wang, Y. P., Wang, Y. Z., Wen, S. C., Wang, Z. M., Wei, D. M., Wei, J. J., Wei, Y. F., Wu, D., Wu, J., Wu, L. B., Wu, S. S., Wu, X., Xi, K., Xia, Z. Q., Xin, Y. L., Xu, H. T., Xu, Z. L., Xu, Z. Z., Xue, G. F., Yang, H. B., Yang, P., Yang, Y. Q., Yang, Z. L., Yao, H. J., Yu, Y. H., Yuan, Q., Yue, C., Zang, J. J., Zhang, C., Zhang, D. L., Zhang, F., Zhang, J. B., Zhang, J. Y., Zhang, J. Z., Zhang, L., Zhang, P. F., Zhang, S. X., Zhang, W. Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y. J., Zhang, Y. Q., Zhang, Y. L., Zhang, Y. P., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z. Y., Zhao, H., Zhao, H. Y., Zhao, X. F., Zhou, C. Y., Zhou, Y., Zhu, X., Zhu, Y., and Zimmer, S.
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Electron, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Nuclear physics, High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex), High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Positron, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Cherenkov radiation, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, cosmic rays , dark matter , electrons , space experiments, Multidisciplinary, Annihilation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Spectrum (functional analysis), electrons, Galaxy, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics::Experiment, space experiments, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: High energy cosmic ray electrons plus positrons (CREs), which lose energy quickly during their propagation, provide an ideal probe of Galactic high-energy processes and may enable the observation of phenomena such as dark-matter particle annihilation or decay. The CRE spectrum has been directly measured up to $\sim 2$ TeV in previous balloon- or space-borne experiments, and indirectly up to $\sim 5$ TeV by ground-based Cherenkov $\gamma$-ray telescope arrays. Evidence for a spectral break in the TeV energy range has been provided by indirect measurements of H.E.S.S., although the results were qualified by sizeable systematic uncertainties. Here we report a direct measurement of CREs in the energy range $25~{\rm GeV}-4.6~{\rm TeV}$ by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) with unprecedentedly high energy resolution and low background. The majority of the spectrum can be properly fitted by a smoothly broken power-law model rather than a single power-law model. The direct detection of a spectral break at $E \sim0.9$ TeV confirms the evidence found by H.E.S.S., clarifies the behavior of the CRE spectrum at energies above 1 TeV and sheds light on the physical origin of the sub-TeV CREs., Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, Nature in press, doi:10.1038/nature24475
Published: 2017

11. Erratum: 'Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from the Coma Cluster with Six Years of Fermi-LAT Data' (2016, ApJ, 819, 149)

Author: Luca Latronico, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Igor V. Moskalenko, Hiroyasu Tajima, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Francesco Longo, L. Di Venere, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, Gloria Spandre, Jan Conrad, Olaf Reimer, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, T. Ohsugi, Johan Bregeon, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Ronaldo Bellazzini, M. Orienti, G. Chiaro, S. Cutini, C. Favuzzi, Diego F. Torres, Yasushi Fukazawa, G. Jóhannesson, Eric Charles, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, E. J. Siskind, S. Maldera, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, P. Fusco, Giacomo Vianello, S. J. Fegan, G. Godfrey, Jean Ballet, W. B. Atwood, M. Caragiulo, E. Nuss, F. Loparco, J. W. Hewitt, D. Horan, L. Tibaldo, Markus Ackermann, Nicola Giglietto, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Vahé Petrosian, Stefano Ciprini, E. Troja, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, R. Buehler, M. N. Lovellette, F. de Palma, P. A. Caraveo, Seb. Funk, R. Bonino, Persis S. Drell, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Andrea Albert, F. Gargano, E. Orlando, P. Lubrano, Jingcheng Li, J. F. Ormes, Roger Blandford, A. Reimer, J. M. Casandjian, K. S. Wood, Stephan Zimmer, Luca Baldini, M. E. Monzani, Sylvain Guiriec, Mn Mazziotta, Yoel Rephaeli, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, T. A. Porter, Denis Bastieri, Seth Digel, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, E. Hays, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Dario Gasparrini, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, F. Spada, Stefan Larsson, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Keith Bechtol, A. Chekhtman, Warit Mitthumsiri, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, R. Desiante, A. Morselli, Claudia Cecchi, ITA, USA, FRA, and DEU
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Coma Cluster, ddc:520, 010306 general physics, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We present results from $\gamma$-ray observations of the Coma cluster incorporating six years of Fermi-LAT data and the newly released "Pass 8" event-level analysis. Our analysis of the region reveals low-significance residual structures within the virial radius of the cluster that are too faint for a detailed investigation with the current data. Using a likelihood approach that is free of assumptions on the spectral shape we derive upper limits on the $\gamma$-ray flux that is expected from energetic particle interactions in the cluster. We also consider a benchmark spatial and spectral template motivated by models in which the observed radio halo is mostly emission by secondary electrons. In this case, the median expected and observed upper limits for the flux above 100 $\mathrm{MeV}$ are 1.7 × $10^{−9} ph$ $cm^{−2} s^{−1}$ and 5.2 × $10^{−9} ph$ $cm^{−2} s^{−1}$ respectively (the latter corresponds to residual emission at the level of 1.8$\sigma$). These bounds are comparable to or higher than predicted levels of hadronic gamma-ray emission in cosmic-ray (CR) models with or without reacceleration of secondary electrons, although direct comparisons are sensitive to assumptions regarding the origin and propagation mode of CRs and magnetic field properties. The minimal expected $\gamma$-ray flux from radio and star-forming galaxies within the Coma cluster is roughly an order of magnitude below the median sensitivity of our analysis.
Published: 2018
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12. Resolving the Extragalactic γ-Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: Seb. Funk, Nicola Omodei, Luca Latronico, Soebur Razzaque, G. Godfrey, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, W. B. Atwood, Roger W. Romani, J. S. Perkins, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, F. de Palma, J. D. Magill, E. Hays, André Schulz, Nicola Giglietto, Diego F. Torres, S. J. Fegan, R. J. Britto, G. Jóhannesson, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Francesco Longo, A. A. Moiseev, Eric Charles, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, D. J. Suson, Luca Baldini, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, A. De Angelis, Jean Ballet, E. J. Siskind, M. Caragiulo, Sylvain Guiriec, Warit Mitthumsiri, Mn Mazziotta, T. A. Porter, G. Chiaro, A. Reimer, Yasushi Fukazawa, F. Loparco, A. Franckowiak, Stefano Ciprini, P. Spinelli, E. Troja, R. Desiante, R. Bonino, M. Di Mauro, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Francesco Giordano, M. Mayer, Markus Ackermann, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, P. Fusco, Elliott D. Bloom, R. A. Cameron, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Giacomo Vianello, G. La Mura, P. Bruel, Dario Gasparrini, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, G. Iafrate, E. Orlando, R. Buehler, D. Simone, E. Nuss, F. Spada, C. Okada, David Paneque, Jingcheng Li, Claudia Cecchi, Seth Digel, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. Kuss, Benoit Lott, J. F. Ormes, D. Horan, Johan Bregeon, F. Gargano, T. Reposeur, L. R. Cominsky, Igor V. Moskalenko, Matteo Negro, Olaf Reimer, M. Yassine, A. Morselli, Vahé Petrosian, Keith Bechtol, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, Stefan Larsson, C. Favuzzi, S. Cutini, Andrea Albert, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephan Zimmer, M. E. Monzani, T. Ohsugi, J. Schmid, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, Denis Bastieri, Paolo Giommi, Alberto Manfreda, S. Maldera, F. Costanza, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Tibaldo, L. Di Venere, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, Aaron Dominguez, T. Jogler, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M, Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bregeon, J., Britto, R. J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Domínguez, A., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Godfrey, G., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Horan, D., Iafrate, G., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kuss, M., La Mura, G., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Madejski, G. M., Magill, J., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Okada, C., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Romani, R. W., Sánchez Conde, M., Schmid, J., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Yassine, M., Zimmer, S., ITA, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier ( LUPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ) -Université de Montpellier ( UM ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan ( CENBG ), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bregeon J, Britto RJ, Bruel P, Buehler R, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Dominguez A, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Godfrey G, Green D, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Hays E, Horan D, Iafrate G, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Kuss M, La Mura G, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Magill J, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Okada C, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reposeur T, Romani RW, Sanchez-Conde M, Schmid J, Schulz A, Sgro C, Simone D, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Troja E, Vianello G, Yassine M, Zimmer S, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cherenkov Telescope Array, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Population, General Physics and Astronomy, Flux, Astrophysics, photon: fluctuation, Euclidean, 01 natural sciences, GLAST, law.invention, Telescope, blazar: energy spectrum, Physics and Astronomy (all), law, Physics and Astronomy, Gamma Ray, Active Galactic Nuclei, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, Source counts, extragalactic gamma-ray background, Fermi-LAT, Blazar, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Monte Carlo, flux: energy dependence, Physics, education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, Astronomy, Galaxy, gamma ray: emission, angular resolution, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, acceptance
Abstract: Physical review letters 116(15), 151105(2016). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.151105, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis, which significantly improves the acceptance and angular resolution of the instrument. Most of the 2FHL sources at high Galactic latitude are blazars. Using detailed Monte Carlo simulations, we measure, for the first time, the source count distribution, dN/dS, of extragalactic γ-ray sources at E>50 GeV and find that it is compatible with a Euclidean distribution down to the lowest measured source flux in the 2FHL (∼8×10$^{−12}$ ph cm$^{−2}$ s$^{−1}$). We employ a one-point photon fluctuation analysis to constrain the behavior of dN/dS below the source detection threshold. Overall, the source count distribution is constrained over three decades in flux and found compatible with a broken power law with a break flux, Sb, in the range [8×10$^{−12}$,1.5×10$^{−11}$] ph cm$^{−2}$ s$^{−1}$ and power-law indices below and above the break of $\alpha_2$∈[1.60,1.75] and $\alpha_1$=2.49±0.12, respectively. Integration of dN/dS shows that point sources account for at least 86$^{+16}_{−14}$% of the total extragalactic γ-ray background. The simple form of the derived source count distribution is consistent with a single population (i.e., blazars) dominating the source counts to the minimum flux explored by this analysis. We estimate the density of sources detectable in blind surveys that will be performed in the coming years by the Cherenkov Telescope Array., Published by APS, College Park, Md.
Published: 2016
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13. FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS of HIGH-ENERGY γ-RAY EMISSION TOWARD the GALACTIC CENTER

Author: J. D. Magill, W. B. Atwood, M. Ohno, Nicola Giglietto, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Andrea Albert, R. Desiante, Paolo Giommi, R. A. Cameron, F. Spada, R. Caputo, Hiroyasu Tajima, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, Jan Conrad, Nicola Omodei, J. F. Ormes, Stefan Larsson, P. Bruel, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, T. J. Brandt, Johan Bregeon, G. Jóhannesson, A. Morselli, Stephan Zimmer, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Liang Li, Keith Bechtol, G. Godfrey, F. de Palma, F. Piron, Denis Bastieri, M. Gustafsson, M. E. Monzani, C. Karwin, Guido Barbiellini, D.J. Suson, A. A. Moiseev, Alice K. Harding, Jingcheng Li, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, F. Loparco, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, P. M. Saz Parkinson, R. Buehler, M. Razzano, G. Chiaro, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Filippo D'Ammando, A. Reimer, G. Pivato, E. J. Siskind, M. N. Lovellette, D. Malyshev, H. Takahashi, D.F. Torres, D. Horan, R. Bonino, P. Fusco, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, P. A. Caraveo, T. Glanzman, S. Maldera, A. S. Johnson, S. Cutini, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Y. Uchiyama, T. Kamae, Claudia Cecchi, Francesco Longo, Persis S. Drell, Steven Ritz, T. A. Porter, E. Orlando, L. R. Cominsky, Igor V. Moskalenko, Luca Latronico, Olaf Reimer, A. Chekhtman, Sylvain Guiriec, John W. Hewitt, M. Caragiulo, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, D.A. Smith, Warit Mitthumsiri, Mn Mazziotta, P. Lubrano, C. Favuzzi, G. Zaharijas, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, T. Jogler, Dario Gasparrini, K. S. Wood, B.L. Winer, S. Buson, Stefano Ciprini, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, F. Gargano, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, Jürgen Knödlseder, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, I. A. Grenier, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Gloria Spandre, A. B. Hill, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ITA, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Carave PA, Cecchi C, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Ferrara EC, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Gomez-Vargas GA, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Gustafsson M, Harding AK, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Johnson AS, Kamae T, Karwin C, Knodlseder J, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Magill J, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Ritz S, Sanchez-Conde M, Parkinson PMS, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Uchiyama Y, Vianello G, Winer BL, Wood KS, Zaharijas G, Zimmer S, Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cecchi, C., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Di Venere, L., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Ferrara, E. C., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Gomez Vargas, G. A., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Harding, A. K., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Kamae, T., Karwin, C., Knödlseder, J., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Magill, J., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Ritz, S., Sánchez Conde, M., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Vianello, G., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., Zaharijas, G., and Zimmer, S.
Subjects: cosmic rays, Galaxy: center, gamma-rays: general, gamma-rays: ISM, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, cosmic rays, Galaxy: center, gamma-rays: general, gamma-rays: ISM, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, law.invention, law, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Emission spectrum, ISM [gamma-rays], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, cosmic ray, Physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Galactic Center, Gamma ray, center [Galaxy], non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], particle: interaction, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, gamma ray: emission, cosmic radiation, electron: interaction, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma-rays], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, GLAST, emission: model, Telescope, gas, 0103 physical sciences, structure, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, background, scattering, nucleus, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Interstellar medium, flux, [PHYS.HPHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Phenomenology [hep-ph], ddc:520, galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 819(1), 44 (2016). doi:10.3847/0004-637X/819/1/44, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission toward the Galactic center (GC) in high-energy γ-rays. This paper describes the analysis of data taken during the first 62 months of the mission in the energy range 1–100 GeV from a 15° × 15° region about the direction of the GC. Specialized interstellar emission models (IEMs) are constructed to enable the separation of the γ-ray emissions produced by cosmic ray particles interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation fields in the Milky Way into that from the inner ~1 kpc surrounding the GC, and that from the rest of the Galaxy. A catalog of point sources for the 15° × 15° region is self-consistently constructed using these IEMs: the First Fermi-LAT Inner Galaxy Point Source Catalog (1FIG). The spatial locations, fluxes, and spectral properties of the 1FIG sources are presented, and compared with γ-ray point sources over the same region taken from existing catalogs. After subtracting the interstellar emission and point-source contributions a residual is found. If templates that peak toward the GC are used to model the positive residual the agreement with the data improves, but none of the additional templates tried account for all of its spatial structure. The spectrum of the positive residual modeled with these templates has a strong dependence on the choice of IEM., Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2016
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14. Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with six years of Fermi-LAT observations

Author: T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Olaf Reimer, W. B. Atwood, T. J. Brandt, Jean Ballet, F. Piron, Andrea Albert, C. Favuzzi, Nicola Giglietto, Stefano Ciprini, P. Martin, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, J. F. Ormes, M. Razzano, Stephan Zimmer, T. A. Porter, James Chiang, Filippo D'Ammando, Dario Gasparrini, Alice K. Harding, E. J. Siskind, P. A. Caraveo, Denis Bastieri, Jingcheng Li, Persis S. Drell, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, S. Rainò, Roger W. Romani, R. A. Cameron, A. Chekhtman, Tsunefumi Mizuno, D. Horan, P. Lubrano, André Schulz, M. E. Monzani, David A. Smith, G. Chiaro, F. Loparco, M. N. Mazziotta, R. Desiante, A. Reimer, Markus Ackermann, Seth Digel, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Elisabetta Bissaldi, S. Maldera, G. Pivato, A. Morselli, Eric Charles, E. Orlando, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, D. J. Suson, I. A. Grenier, F. Gargano, S. Cutini, E. Cavazzuti, Luca Latronico, R. Bonino, Gloria Spandre, Claudia Cecchi, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, M.-H. Grondin, S. Murgia, W. B. Focke, G. A. Caliandro, P. Spinelli, F. Spada, Francesco Giordano, Stefan Larsson, Luca Baldini, Lucas Guillemot, Sylvain Guiriec, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, M. Orienti, Matthew Wood, P. Fusco, Francesco Longo, L. Tibaldo, M. Caragiulo, G. Godfrey, F. de Palma, Diego F. Torres, Pascal Bruel, R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, J. B. Thayer, A. Franckowiak, A. B. Hill, Johan Bregeon, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, Jürgen Knödlseder, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Zeuthen] (DESY), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), University of California [Santa Cruz] (UCSC), University of California-University of California, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Stanford University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari (INFN, sezione di Bari), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), GSFC Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Pisa] (INFN), Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm] (KTH ), Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC-CSIC), Hansen Experimental Physics Lab [Stanford] (HEPL), Hiroshima University, ITA, University of California [Santa Cruz] (UC Santa Cruz), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Ackermann M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Ferrara EC, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Grondin MH, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Harding AK, Hill AB, Horan D, Johannesson G, Knodlseder J, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lubrano P, Maldera S, Martin P, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Romani RW, Sanchez-Conde M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Wood M, Zimmer S, Ackermann, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Grondin, M. H., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jóhannesson, G., Knödlseder, J., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Martin, P., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Romani, R. W., Sánchez Conde, M., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, M., Zimmer, S., Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University [Stanford], National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), GFSC Astrophysics Science Division, and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)
Subjects: [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Magellanic Cloud, Population, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, cosmic rays, 0103 physical sciences, Magellanic Clouds, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Large Magellanic Cloud, education, Supernova remnant, gamma rays: galaxies / Magellanic Clouds / cosmic rays, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, education.field_of_study, Line-of-sight, galaxie [Gamma rays], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic rays, Gamma rays: galaxies, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, ddc:520, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Context. The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in γ-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100 GeV as an extended source with CGRO/EGRET and using early observations with the Fermi-LAT. The emission was found to correlate with massive star-forming regions and to be particularly bright towards 30 Doradus. Aims: Studies of the origin and transport of cosmic rays (CRs) in the Milky Way are frequently hampered by line-of-sight confusion and poor distance determination. The LMC offers a complementary way to address these questions by revealing whether and how the γ-ray emission is connected to specific objects, populations of objects, and structures in the galaxy. Methods: We revisited the γ-ray emission from the LMC using about 73 months of Fermi-LAT P7REP data in the 0.2-100 GeV range. We developed a complete spatial and spectral model of the LMC emission, for which we tested several approaches: a simple geometrical description, template-fitting, and a physically driven model for CR-induced interstellar emission. Results: In addition to identifying PSR J0540-6919 through its pulsations, we find two hard sources positionally coincident with plerion N 157B and supernova remnant N 132D, which were also detected at TeV energies with H.E.S.S. We detect an additional soft source that is currently unidentified. Extended emission dominates the total flux from the LMC. It consists of an extended component of about the size of the galaxy and additional emission from three to four regions with degree-scale sizes. If it is interpreted as CRs interacting with interstellar gas, the large-scale emission implies a large-scale population of ~1-100 GeV CRs with a density of ~30% of the local Galactic value. On top of that, the three to four small-scale emission regions would correspond to enhancements of the CR density by factors 2 to 6 or higher, possibly more energetic and younger populations of CRs compared to the large-scale population. An alternative explanation is that this is emission from an unresolved population of at least two dozen objects, such as pulsars and their nebulae or supernova remnants. This small-scale extended emission has a spatial distribution that does not clearly correlate with known components of the LMC, except for a possible relation to cavities and supergiant shells. Conclusions: The Fermi-LAT GeV observations allowed us to detect individual sources in the LMC. Three of the newly discovered sources are associated with rare and extreme objects. The 30 Doradus region is prominent in GeV γ-rays because PSR J0540-6919 and N 157B are strong emitters. The extended emission from the galaxy has an unexpected spatial distribution, and observations at higher energies and in radio may help to clarify its origin. FITS file of Fig. 1 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/586/A71">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/586/A71
Published: 2016
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15. Fermi large area telescope detection of extended gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Fornax A

Author: P. Lubrano, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, Giacomo Vianello, M. Caragiulo, G. Godfrey, K. S. Wood, Ronaldo Bellazzini, J. D. Magill, F. de Palma, Gudlaugur Johannesson, R. Bonino, Seth Digel, A. B. Hill, J. Schmid, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Roger Blandford, A. Reimer, Liang Li, M. N. Mazziotta, Igor V. Moskalenko, E. Orlando, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Guido Barbiellini, Olaf Reimer, S. Kensei, R. Buehler, S. Maldera, Matteo Negro, T. Jogler, A. Morselli, Eric Charles, T. J. Brandt, Dario Gasparrini, S. Rainò, Marco Ajello, Francesco Longo, Tsunefumi Mizuno, J. B. Thayer, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, M. Orienti, C. Favuzzi, W. McConville, G. Chiaro, F. Piron, F. Costanza, Masanori Ohno, Yasushi Fukazawa, Jean Ballet, S. Cutini, Diego F. Torres, J. W. Hewitt, C. C. Cheung, Markos Georganopoulos, F. Gargano, Stefano Ciprini, Stephan Zimmer, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, Jingcheng Li, Johan Bregeon, M. Di Mauro, Stefan Funk, Sara Buson, Julie McEnery, E. J. Siskind, S. J. Fegan, T. A. Porter, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Hays, D. Simone, E. Nuss, David Paneque, P. Fusco, M. E. Monzani, F. Loparco, M. Kuss, D. J. Thompson, Markus Ackermann, Luca Latronico, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Claudia Cecchi, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, I. A. Grenier, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, E. Cavazzuti, David H. Green, R. Desiante, Gloria Spandre, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, S. Murgia, G. A. Caliandro, J. F. Ormes, A. Chekhtman, Warit Mitthumsiri, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, R. A. Cameron, P. Bruel, J. M. Cohen, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, F. Spada, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, Stefan Larsson, P. A. Caraveo, Denis Bastieri, Łukasz Stawarz, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, Alberto Manfreda, David S. Davis, Matthew Wood, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Fermi-LAT, Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen, J. M., Cohen Tanugi, J., Costanza, F., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Davis, D. S., De Angelis, A., De Palma, F., Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Di Lalla, N., Di Mauro, M., Di Venere, L., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Georganopoulos, M., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Godfrey, G., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kensei, S., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lubrano, P., Magill, J. D., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcconville, W., Mcenery, J. E., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Schmid, J., Sgrò, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stawarz, Ł., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zimmer, S., Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen JM, Cohen-Tanugi J, Costanza F, Cutini S, DAmmando F, Davis DS, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Focke WB, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Georganopoulos M, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Godfrey G, Green D, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Hays E, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Jogler T, Johnnesson G, Kensei S, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lubrano P, Magill JD, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McConville W, McEnery JE, Michelson PF, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohno M, Ohsugi T, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Schmid J, Sgro C, Simone D, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Stawarz L, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Wood KS, Wood M, Zimmer S, ITA, Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques ( UM2 ), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet ( LLR ), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -École polytechnique ( X ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), and Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112))
Subjects: Radio galaxy, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, jets [galaxies], galaxies: individual, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Galaxy merger, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, galaxies: individual (Fornax A), galaxies: jets, gamma rays: galaxies, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, individual: Fornax A [galaxies], law, 0103 physical sciences, galaxie [gamma rays], Brightest cluster galaxy, Interacting galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Dwarf galaxy, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, individual (Fornax A) [galaxies], Astronomy, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, non-thermal [radiation mechanisms], galaxies: active – galaxies: individual (Fornax A) – galaxies: jets – gamma rays: galaxies – radiation mechanisms: non-thermal, jet [galaxies], active [galaxies], galaxies [gamma rays], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 826(1), 1 (2016). doi:10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/1, We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of extended γ-ray emission from the lobes of the radio galaxy Fornax A using 6.1 years of Pass 8 data. After Centaurus A, this is now the second example of an extended γ-ray source attributed to a radio galaxy. Both an extended flat disk morphology and a morphology following the extended radio lobes were preferred over a point-source description, and the core contribution was constrained to be $\lt 14$% of the total γ-ray flux. A preferred alignment of the γ-ray elongation with the radio lobes was demonstrated by rotating the radio lobes template. We found no significant evidence for variability on ~0.5 year timescales. Taken together, these results strongly suggest a lobe origin for the γ-rays. With the extended nature of the $\gt 100\;{\rm{MeV}}$ γ-ray emission established, we model the source broadband emission considering currently available total lobe radio and millimeter flux measurements, as well as X-ray detections attributed to inverse Compton (IC) emission off the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Unlike the Centaurus A case, we find that a leptonic model involving IC scattering of CMB and extragalactic background light (EBL) photons underpredicts the γ-ray fluxes by factors of about ~2–3, depending on the EBL model adopted. An additional γ-ray spectral component is thus required, and could be due to hadronic emission arising from proton–proton collisions of cosmic rays with thermal plasma within the radio lobes., Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2016
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16. Sensitivity Projections for Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Author: Brandon Anderson, Elliott D. Bloom, Stephan Zimmer, M. Razzano, Alessandro Cuoco, E. Charles, Matthew Wood, Keith Bechtol, Gabrijela Zaharijas, J. Gaskins, Regina Caputo, M. Gustafsson, Andrea Albert, L. Tibaldo, M. Di Mauro, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Manuel Meyer, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Nestor Mirabal, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Luca Baldini, F. Ceraudo, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, Seth Digel, Marco Ajello, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Faculty of Science, and GRAPPA (ITFA, IoP, FNWI)
Subjects: dark matter: interaction, Physics beyond the Standard Model, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, dark matter: density, Physics and Astronomy(all), Fermi-LAT, Gamma-ray observations, Physics and Astronomy (all), 01 natural sciences, GLAST, law.invention, thermal, Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 0103 physical sciences, axion: coupling, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Axion, Dwarf galaxy, Physics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, new physics, background, photon, dark matter: decay, dark matter: annihilation, stability, sensitivity, Galaxy, galaxy, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], statistical, up: mass, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The nature of dark matter is a longstanding enigma of physics; it may consist of particles beyond the Standard Model that are still elusive to experiments. Among indirect search techniques, which look for stable products from the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles, or from axions coupling to high-energy photons, observations of the $\gamma$-ray sky have come to prominence over the last few years, because of the excellent sensitivity of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. The LAT energy range from 20 MeV to above 300 GeV is particularly well suited for searching for products of the interactions of dark matter particles. In this report we describe methods used to search for evidence of dark matter with the LAT, and review the status of searches performed with up to six years of LAT data. We also discuss the factors that determine the sensitivities of these searches, including the magnitudes of the signals and the relevant backgrounds, considering both statistical and systematic uncertainties. We project the expected sensitivities of each search method for 10 and 15 years of LAT data taking. In particular, we find that the sensitivity of searches targeting dwarf galaxies, which provide the best limits currently, will improve faster than the square root of observing time. Current LAT limits for dwarf galaxies using six years of data reach the thermal relic level for masses up to 120 GeV for the $b\bar{b}$ annihilation channel for reasonable dark matter density profiles. With projected discoveries of additional dwarfs, these limits could extend to about 250 GeV. With as much as 15 years of LAT data these searches would be sensitive to dark matter annihilations at the thermal relic cross section for masses to greater than 400 GeV (200 GeV) in the $b\bar{b}$ ($\tau^+ \tau^-$) annihilation channels., Comment: Updated with a few additional and corrected references; otherwise, text is identical to previous version. Submitted on behalf of the Fermi-LAT collaboration. Accepted for publication in Physics Reports, 59 pages, 34 figures; corresponding author: Eric Charles (echarles@slac.stanford.edu)
Published: 2016
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17. FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS of the LIGO EVENT GW150914

Author: Denis Bastieri, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, Andrea Albert, J. L. Racusin, M. N. Mazziotta, Roger W. Romani, S. Maldera, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, Eric Charles, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Steven Ritz, R. J. Britto, D. J. Suson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Marelli, Stephan Zimmer, Gudlaugur Johannesson, M. Caragiulo, M. Giomi, T. H. Burnett, T. J. Brandt, M. E. Monzani, Lucas Guillemot, David A. Smith, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Liang Li, R. Bonino, Guido Barbiellini, A. Reimer, J. Becerra González, Nestor Mirabal, Dario Gasparrini, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, S. Kensei, Matteo Negro, N. Di Lalla, Luca Baldini, L. S. Rochester, A. Morselli, T. Glanzman, Seth Digel, P. Fusco, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, T. Reposeur, Matthew G. Baring, Sara Buson, Sylvain Guiriec, R. A. Cameron, Jean Ballet, E. Hays, A. Franckowiak, G. Godfrey, Brandon Anderson, J. G. Thayer, Stefano Ciprini, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, Stefan Funk, T. A. Porter, D. Dumora, S. Rainò, J. D. Magill, Daniel Kocevski, Paolo Giommi, F. de Palma, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, G. Chiaro, F. Loparco, M. Orienti, F. Piron, G. M. Madejski, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, Marco Ajello, R. Dubois, J. B. Thayer, J. W. Hewitt, Manuel Meyer, Jonathan Granot, J. F. Ormes, Alice K. Harding, D. Horan, E. Orlando, E. Moretti, F. Costanza, T. Kamae, P. Spinelli, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, B. Condon, R. Desiante, Daniela Hadasch, Soebur Razzaque, Makoto Arimoto, Jingcheng Li, I. A. Grenier, K. S. Wood, L. Tibaldo, Francesco Giordano, Johan Bregeon, Nicola Omodei, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, A. B. Hill, E. Cavazzuti, Matthew Wood, Julie McEnery, D. Simone, E. Nuss, David Paneque, S. J. Fegan, M. Kuss, J. M. Casandjian, L. R. Cominsky, P. Bruel, Igor V. Moskalenko, Olaf Reimer, N. Gehrels, D. J. Thompson, C. Favuzzi, Tonia M. Venters, Giacomo Vianello, G. La Mura, Ronaldo Bellazzini, F. Gargano, Luca Latronico, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, E. J. Siskind, Magnus Axelsson, Markus Ackermann, Diego F. Torres, R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, F. Spada, R. Caputo, Hiroyasu Tajima, Stefan Larsson, Filippo D'Ammando, Alessandro Cuoco, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Francesco Longo, T. Jogler, Sylvia J. Zhu, Aaron Dominguez, Yasunobu Uchiyama, M. Di Mauro, David H. Green, Gloria Spandre, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, L. Di Venere, M.-H. Grondin, S. Murgia, G. A. 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CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Anderson, B., Arimoto, M., Atwood, W. B., Axelsson, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Baring, M. G., Bastieri, D., Gonzalez, J. Becerra, Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Britto, R. J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Burnett, T. H., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Casandjian, J. M., Cavazzuti, E., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cominsky, L. R., Condon, B., Costanza, F., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Lalla, N. Di, Mauro, M. Di, Venere, L. Di, Domnguez, A., Drell, P. S., Dubois, R., Dumora, D., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Gehrels, N., Giglietto, N., Giomi, M., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Gomez Vargas, G. A., Granot, J., Green, D., Grenier, I. A., Grondin, M. H., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Hadasch, D., Harding, A. K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kamae, T., Kensei, S., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Mura, G. La, Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lemoine Goumard, M., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Madejski, G. M., Magill, J., Maldera, S., Manfreda, A., Marelli, M., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Meyer, M., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monzani, M. E., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Negro, M., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Racusin, J. L., Rain, S., Rando, R., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Ritz, S., Rochester, L. S., Romani, R. W., Parkinson, P. M. Saz, Sgr, C., Simone, D., Siskind, E. J., Smith, D. A., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Thayer, J. G., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Torres, D. F., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Venters, T. M., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Zhu, S., Zimmer, S., Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Anderson B, Arimoto M, Atwood WB, Axelsson M, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Baring MG, Bastieri D, Gonzalez JB, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Blandford RD, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Britto RJ, Bruel P, Buehler R, Burnett TH, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Cavazzuti E, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Cominsky LR, Condon B, Costanza F, Cuoco A, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Lalla N, Di Mauro M, Di Venere L, Dominguez A, Drell PS, Dubois R, Dumora D, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Gehrels N, Giglietto N, Giomi M, Giommi P, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Gomez-Vargas GA, Granot J, Green D, Grenier IA, Grondin MH, Grove JE, Guillemot L, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Harding AK, Hays E, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Kamae T, Kensei S, Kocevski D, Kuss M, La Mura G, Larsson S, Latronico L, Lemoine-Goumard M, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Madejski GM, Magill J, Maldera S, Manfreda A, Marelli M, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McEnery JE, Meyer M, Michelson PF, Mirabal N, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monzani ME, Moretti E, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Negro M, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Racusin JL, Raino S, Rando R, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reposeur T, Ritz S, Rochester LS, Romani RW, Parkinson PMS, Sgro C, Simone D, Siskind EJ, Smith DA, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Suson DJ, Tajima H, Thayer JG, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Torres DF, Troja E, Uchiyama Y, Venters TM, Vianello G, Wood KS, Wood M, Zaharijas G, Zhu S, Zimmer S, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome]-Institut Pasteur, Fondation Cenci Bolognetti - Istituto Pasteur Italia, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' [Rome]-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP)-Institut Pasteur, Fondation Cenci Bolognetti - Istituto Pasteur Italia, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, and École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Subjects: gamma-ray burst: general, gamma-rays: general, gravitational waves, methods: observational, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, gamma-ray burst: general, observational [methods], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, general [gamma-ray burst], 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, ravitational waves, law, Observatory, gamma-ray burst: general – gamma-rays: general – gravitational waves – methods: observational, 0103 physical sciences, gravitational wave, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, gamma-rays: general, gravitational waves, methods: observational, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, gamma rays: general, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Gamma-ray burst: general, LIGO, Black hole, Interferometry, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], ddc:520, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, general [gamma-rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal / 2 823(1), L2(2016). doi:10.3847/2041-8205/823/1/L2, The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view (FoV) covering $\sim 1/5$ of the sky and it completes a survey of the entire sky in high-energy gamma-rays every 3 hr. It enables searches for transient phenomena over timescales from milliseconds to years. Among these phenomena could be electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) sources. In this paper, we present a detailed study of the LAT observations relevant to Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) event GW150914, which is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and has been interpreted as being due to the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The localization region for GW150914 was outside the LAT FoV at the time of the GW signal. However, as part of routine survey observations, the LAT observed the entire LIGO localization region within ~70 minutes of the trigger and thus enabled a comprehensive search for a γ-ray counterpart to GW150914. The study of the LAT data presented here did not find any potential counterparts to GW150914, but it did provide limits on the presence of a transient counterpart above 100 MeV on timescales of hours to days over the entire GW150914 localization region., Published by Institute of Physics Publ., London
Published: 2016
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18. Development of the Model of Galactic Interstellar Emission for Standard Point-Source Analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

Author: Xian Hou, S. Rainò, Soebur Razzaque, J. F. Ormes, Matthew Wood, Katsuhiro Hayashi, E. D. Bloom, Gabrijela Zaharijas, Michael Werner, D. Horan, Hiromitsu Takahashi, F. Spada, D. Hadasch, Andrea Albert, T. Kamae, Frederic Piron, Dario Gasparrini, R. Desiante, S. Cutini, S. J. Fegan, Hiroyasu Tajima, Francesco Longo, Jean Ballet, Tsunefumi Mizuno, A. Franckowiak, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Johan Bregeon, L. Latronico, Stefano Ciprini, M. Caragiulo, S. Maldera, Julie McEnery, G. Chiaro, E. Cavazzuti, Q. Remy, T. Jogler, Diego F. Torres, F. Loparco, John W. Hewitt, P. Martin, Eric Charles, M. Kuss, Stefan Funk, D. Landriu, N. Renault, W. B. Focke, Gino Tosti, Gloria Spandre, Olaf Reimer, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Marco Ajello, D. J. Suson, Michael Mayer, Eleonora Troja, Seth Digel, A. Reimer, M. N. Mazziotta, M. Schaal, D. Paneque, Dmitry Malyshev, Liang Li, Guido Barbiellini, P. Fusco, M. Tinivella, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Nicola Omodei, T. J. Brandt, Francesco Giordano, T. Ohsugi, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, M. Ackermann, S. Buson, R. Claus, G. A. Caliandro, Eric Nuss, L. Di Venere, K. S. Wood, E. Orlando, L. Tibaldo, A. De Angelis, G. Godfrey, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, D. J. Thompson, R. Bonino, F. Gargano, Nestor Mirabal, A. Chekhtman, M. Orienti, J. M. Casandjian, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, C. Cecchi, T. Glanzman, Luca Baldini, Nicola Giglietto, Alice K. Harding, Jingcheng Li, E. J. Siskind, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Giacomo Vianello, F. de Palma, M. N. Lovellette, A. B. Hill, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Janet Conrad, A. Morselli, Stephan Zimmer, I. A. Grenier, M. E. Monzani, J. B. Thayer, Fabio Acero, P. Spinelli, R. A. Cameron, P. Lubrano, Denis Bastieri, Sylvain Guiriec, J. Chiang, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Andrew W. Strong, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Alessandro Cuoco, Pascal Bruel, R. Buehler, A. Schulz, Elizabeth Hays, G. Pivato, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, C. Favuzzi, Eugenio Bottacini, Stefan Larsson, Alberto Manfreda, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Fermi-LAT, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ITA, Acero, F., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Casandjian, J. M., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen Tanugi, J., Conrad, J., Cuoco, A., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Angelis, A. De, Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Venere, L. Di, Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Hadasch, D., Harding, A. K., Hayashi, K., Hays, E., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Hou, X., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Kamae, T., Kuss, M., Landriu, D., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Martin, P., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcenery, J. E., Michelson, P. F., Mirabal, N., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Pesce Rollins, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Remy, Q., Renault, N., Sánchez Conde, M., Schaal, M., Schulz, A., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Strong, A. W., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Tinivella, M., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Werner, M., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., Zimmer, S., Acero F, Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiang J, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Conrad J, Cuoco A, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, de Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Grenier IA, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Harding AK, Hayashi K, Hays E, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Hou X, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Kamae T, Kuss M, Landriu D, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Martin P, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, McEnery JE, Michelson PF, Mirabal N, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Pesce-Rollins M, Piron F, Pivato G, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Remy Q, Renault N, Sanchez-Conde M, Schaal M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Strong AW, Suson DJ, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Tinivella M, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Werner M, Wood KS, Wood M, Zaharijas G, and Zimmer S
Subjects: gamma rays: diffuse background – gamma rays: general – gamma rays: ISM, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, emission, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, gamma rays: diffuse background, gamma rays: general, gamma rays: ISM, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, p: spectrum, Galactic Center, photon, nucleon, Gamma rays: diffuse background, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Compton scattering, Point source, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxy: model, FOS: Physical sciences, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, p: density, GLAST, emission: model, Telescope, ISM [gamma rays], diffuse background [gamma rays], gas, 0103 physical sciences, structure, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, bubble, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Galaxy, Interstellar medium, gamma ray, p: cosmic radiation, ddc:520, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal / Supplement series 223(2), 26(2016). doi:10.3847/0067-0049/223/2/26, Most of the celestial γ rays detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope originate from the interstellar medium when energetic cosmic rays interact with interstellar nucleons and photons. Conventional point-source and extended-source studies rely on the modeling of this diffuse emission for accurate characterization. Here, we describe the development of the Galactic Interstellar Emission Model (GIEM), which is the standard adopted by the LAT Collaboration and is publicly available. This model is based on a linear combination of maps for interstellar gas column density in Galactocentric annuli and for the inverse-Compton emission produced in the Galaxy. In the GIEM, we also include large-scale structures like Loop I and the Fermi bubbles. The measured gas emissivity spectra confirm that the cosmic-ray proton density decreases with Galactocentric distance beyond 5 kpc from the Galactic Center. The measurements also suggest a softening of the proton spectrum with Galactocentric distance. We observe that the Fermi bubbles have boundaries with a shape similar to a catenary at latitudes below 20° and we observe an enhanced emission toward their base extending in the north and south Galactic directions and located within ~4° of the Galactic Center., Published by Univ. of Chicago Press11033, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2016
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19. Search for Gamma-Ray Lines towards Galaxy Clusters with the Fermi-LAT

Author: Stephan Zimmer, Brandon Anderson, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Jan Conrad, Regina Caputo, and M. Gustafsson
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Structure formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Virgo Cluster, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Intracluster medium, 0103 physical sciences, Coma Cluster, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We report on a search for monochromatic $\gamma$-ray features in the spectra of galaxy clusters observed by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe that are bound by dark matter (DM), making them an important testing ground for possible self-interactions or decays of the DM particles. Monochromatic $\gamma$-ray lines provide a unique signature due to the absence of astrophysical backgrounds and are as such considered a smoking-gun signature for new physics. An unbinned joint likelihood analysis of the sixteen most promising clusters using five years of data at energies between 10 and 400 GeV revealed no significant features. For the case of self-annihilation, we set upper limits on the monochromatic velocity-averaged interaction cross section. These limits are compatible with those obtained from observations of the Galactic Center, albeit weaker due to the larger distance to the studied clusters., Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; minor changes to match version to appear in JCAP, corresponding authors: B. Anderson & S. Zimmer
Published: 2015

20. SEARCH for EXTENDED GAMMA-RAY EMISSION from the VIRGO GALAXY CLUSTER with FERMI-LAT

Author: R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Hiromitsu Takahashi, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Kuss, Johan Bregeon, F. Spada, R. Caputo, D. Horan, M. Orienti, A. Morselli, Stefan Larsson, D. Malyshev, Dario Gasparrini, E. Orlando, Andrea Albert, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, Stefano Ciprini, J. M. Casandjian, Marco Ajello, Francesco Longo, Tesla E. Jeltema, J. B. Thayer, M. N. Mazziotta, L. Di Venere, E. Troja, Seth Digel, Igor V. Moskalenko, Hiroyasu Tajima, Olaf Reimer, Liang Li, Jan Conrad, G. A. Gomez-Vargas, S. Buson, R. Bonino, F. Loparco, Guido Barbiellini, M. Gustafsson, M. Mayer, Elliott D. Bloom, S. Murgia, F. Gargano, Luca Latronico, G. A. Caliandro, A. Franckowiak, I. A. Grenier, M. Caragiulo, S. Maldera, Claudia Cecchi, Ronaldo Bellazzini, S. Rainò, Diego F. Torres, C. Favuzzi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Eric Charles, J. F. Ormes, E. Cavazzuti, J. Li, K. S. Wood, R. A. Cameron, G. Chiaro, Stefan Funk, T. Ohsugi, Gloria Spandre, Yasushi Fukazawa, T. J. Brandt, A. S. Johnson, S. Cutini, P. Fusco, R. Desiante, Gabrijela Zaharijas, A. De Angelis, John W. Hewitt, G. Tosti, E. J. Siskind, G. Godfrey, T. Jogler, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Matthew Wood, P. Bruel, Giacomo Vianello, Markus Ackermann, F. de Palma, A. B. Hill, Vahé Petrosian, Luca Baldini, Sylvain Guiriec, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, A. Reimer, Eugenio Bottacini, Alberto Manfreda, Elisabetta Bissaldi, G. Pivato, T. Glanzman, Denis Bastieri, T. A. Porter, M. Razzano, Filippo D'Ammando, Keith Bechtol, André Schulz, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, Stephan Zimmer, M. E. Monzani, Emma Storm, S. J. Fegan, F. Piron, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Fermi-LAT, Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Albert A, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bissaldi E, Bloom ED, Bonino R, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Bruel P, Buehler R, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caputo R, Caragiulo M, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Cavazzuti E, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chekhtman A, Chiaro G, Ciprini S, Cohen-Tanugi J, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Angelis A, De Palma F, Desiante R, Digel SW, Di Venere L, Drell PS, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Focke WB, Franckowiak A, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Gomez-Vargas GA, Grenier A, Guiriec S, Gustafsson M, Hewitt JW, Hill AB, Horan D, Jeltema TE, Jogler T, Johnson AS, Kuss M, Larsson S, Latronico L, Li J, Li L, Longo F, Loparco F, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Mayer M, Mazziotta MN, Michelson PF, Mizuno T, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Petrosian V, Piron F, Pivato G, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Reimer A, Reimer O, Sanchez-Conde M, Schulz A, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Spada F, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Storm E, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Thayer JB, Torres DF, Tosti G, Troja E, Vianello G, Wood KS, Wood M, Zaharijas G, Zimmer S, Pinzke A, ITA, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Albert, A., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bissaldi, E., Bloom, E. D., Bonino, R., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caputo, R., Caragiulo, M., Caraveo, P. A., Casandjian, J. M., Cavazzuti, E., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Chiaro, G., Ciprini, S., Cohen Tanugi, J., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., Angelis, A. De, Palma, F. De, Desiante, R., Digel, S. W., Venere, L. Di, Drell, P. S., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Focke, W. B., Franckowiak, A., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Gomez Vargas, G. A., Grenier, I. A., Guiriec, S., Gustafsson, M., Hewitt, J. W., Hill, A. B., Horan, D., Jeltema, T. E., Jogler, T., Johnson, A. S., Kuss, M., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Li, J., Li, L., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Maldera, S., Malyshev, D., Manfreda, A., Mayer, M., Mazziotta, M. N., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Petrosian, V., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Porter, T. A., Rainó, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Sánchez Conde, M., Schulz, A., Sgró, C., Siskind, E. J., Spada, F., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Storm, E., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Thayer, J. B., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Vianello, G., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Zaharijas, G., and Zimmer, S.
Subjects: galaxies: clusters: individual, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, galaxies: clusters: individual (Virgo), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, gamma-rays: galaxies: cluster, background: model, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmic radiation: interaction, GLAST, cross section: annihilation, emission: model, Galactic halo, pressure, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), galaxy: halo, dark matter: halo, galaxies: cluster [gamma-rays], gamma-rays: galaxies: clusters, gamma-rays: general, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, dark matter: angular distribution, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, Annihilation, clusters: individual (Virgo) [galaxies], flux: enhancement, Gamma ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, dark matter: annihilation, star: model, Dark matter halo, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, VIRGO, gamma ray: emission, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, galaxy: cluster, Halo, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], general [gamma-rays], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross sections for DM annihilation channels, these signals might be detectable by the latest generation of $\gamma$-ray telescopes. Here we use three years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data, which are the most suitable for searching for very extended emission in the vicinity of nearby Virgo galaxy cluster. Our analysis reveals statistically significant extended emission which can be well characterized by a uniformly emitting disk profile with a radius of 3\deg that moreover is offset from the cluster center. We demonstrate that the significance of this extended emission strongly depends on the adopted interstellar emission model (IEM) and is most likely an artifact of our incomplete description of the IEM in this region. We also search for and find new point source candidates in the region. We then derive conservative upper limits on the velocity-averaged DM pair annihilation cross section from Virgo. We take into account the potential $\gamma$-ray flux enhancement due to DM sub-halos and its complex morphology as a merging cluster. For DM annihilating into $b\overline{b}$, assuming a conservative sub-halo model setup, we find limits that are between 1 and 1.5 orders of magnitude above the expectation from the thermal cross section for $m_{\mathrm{DM}}\lesssim100\,\mathrm{GeV}$. In a more optimistic scenario, we exclude $\langle \sigma v \rangle\sim3\times10^{-26}\,\mathrm{cm^{3}\,s^{-1}}$ for $m_{\mathrm{DM}}\lesssim40\,\mathrm{GeV}$ for the same channel. Finally, we derive upper limits on the $\gamma$-ray-flux produced by hadronic cosmic-ray interactions in the inter cluster medium. We find that the volume-averaged cosmic-ray-to-thermal pressure ratio is less than $\sim6\%$., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ; corresponding authors: T. Jogler, S. Zimmer & A. Pinzke
Published: 2015
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21. Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Author: Ullrich Schwanke, Stephan Zimmer, Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos, Tarek M. Hassan, A. Stamerra, A. Gonzalez-Munoz, H.-S. Zechlin, M. K. Daniel, Simon Henry Connell, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, G. Spengler, Aion Viana, J. Bolmont, Jose Luis Contreras, Juan Abel Barrio, Pierre Brun, E. Birsin, Heidi Sandaker, Mattia Fornasa, S. Colafrancesco, Nestor Mirabal, Daniel Nieto, Emmanuel Moulin, C. Jahn, Abelardo Moralejo, Jan Conrad, J. F. Glicenstein, M. Gaug, Dieter Horns, Rachid Mazini, Joachim Ripken, A. Jacholkowska, Michele Doro, M., Doro, J., Conrad, D., Emmanoulopoulo, M. A., Sanchez Conde, J. A., Barrio, E., Birsin, J., Bolmont, P., Brun, S., Colafrancesco, S. H., Connell, J. L., Contrera, M. K., Daniel, M., Fornasa, M., Gaug, J. F., Glicenstein, A., Gonzalez Munoz, T., Hassan, D., Horn, A., Jacholkowska, C., Jahn, R., Mazini, N., Mirabal, A., Moralejo, E., Moulin, D., Nieto, J., Ripken, H., Sandaker, U., Schwanke, G., Spengler, A., Stamerra, A., Viana, H. . ., S., S., Zimmer, Cta, Consortium, Acharya, B. S., Actis, M., Aghajani, T., and Bissaldi, Elisabetta
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cold dark matter, Magnetic monopoles, Milky Way, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Fysikk: 430::Astrofysikk, astronomi: 438 [VDP], FOS: Physical sciences, Galaxy clusters, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Lorentz invariance violations, 01 natural sciences, dark matter, law.invention, High-energy astrophysics instrumentation, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, Gravitational waves, Telescope, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), law, Dwarf satellite galaxies, Galactic centre, Galactic halo, galaxy clusters, 0103 physical sciences, Neutrino, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Axion, Axion-like particles, Physics, CTA, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dwarf satellite galaxie, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Galaxy, Extragalactic background light, 13. Climate action, Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Physics: 430::Astrophysics, astronomy: 438 [VDP], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a project for a next-generation observatory for very high energy (GeV-TeV) ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, currently in its design phase, and foreseen to be operative a few years from now. Several tens of telescopes of 2-3 different sizes, distributed over a large area, will allow for a sensitivity about a factor 10 better than current instruments such as H.E.S.S, MAGIC and VERITAS, an energy coverage from a few tens of GeV to several tens of TeV, and a field of view of up to 10. In the following study, we investigate the prospects for CTA to study several science questions that can profoundly influence our current knowledge of fundamental physics. Based on conservative assumptions for the performance of the different CTA telescope configurations currently under discussion, we employ a Monte Carlo based approach to evaluate the prospects for detection and characterisation of new physics with the array.First, we discuss CTA prospects for cold dark matter searches, following different observational strategies: in dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, which are virtually void of astrophysical background and have a relatively well known dark matter density; in the region close to the Galactic Centre, where the dark matter density is expected to be large while the astrophysical background due to the Galactic Centre can be excluded; and in clusters of galaxies, where the intrinsic flux may be boosted significantly by the large number of halo substructures. The possible search for spatial signatures, facilitated by the larger field of view of CTA, is also discussed. Next we consider searches for axion-like particles which, besides being possible candidates for dark matter may also explain the unexpectedly low absorption by extragalactic background light of gamma-rays from very distant blazars. We establish the axion mass range CTA could probe through observation of long-lasting flares in distant sources. Simulated lightcurves of flaring sources are also used to determine the sensitivity to violations of Lorentz invariance by detection of the possible delay between the arrival times of photons at different energies. Finally, we mention searches for other exotic physics with CTA. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Published: 2013

22. ERRATUM: 'FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE STUDY OF COSMIC-RAYS AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IN NEARBY MOLECULAR CLOUDS' (2012, ApJ, 755, 22)

Author: P. Lubrano, Denis Bastieri, Hartmut Sadrozinski, Sho Nishino, J. Lande, Sylvain Guiriec, Charles D. Dermer, F. Gargano, Rodrigo Nemmen, A. Chekhtman, D. Horan, Tadayuki Takahashi, M. Tinivella, M. Roth, Francesco Longo, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, W. B. Focke, P. Spinelli, Pierrick Martin, Francesco Giordano, Igor V. Moskalenko, I. A. Grenier, Olaf Reimer, A. Tramacere, E. J. Siskind, Takaaki Tanaka, C. Favuzzi, Stephan Zimmer, J. H. Panetta, Alice Allafort, Gloria Spandre, Markus Ackermann, R. A. Cameron, T. J. Brandt, P. Bruel, S. Murgia, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, T. L. Usher, Hiromitsu Takahashi, F. Piron, T. A. Porter, G. Busetto, Brian L Winer, G. A. Caliandro, J. M. Casandjian, Yasunobu Uchiyama, M. Razzano, Y. Hanabata, Masanori Ohno, A. Morselli, V. Vasileiou, V. Vitale, Stefan Funk, M. E. Monzani, E. Orlando, Zhenwei Yang, G. Pivato, A. A. Moiseev, R. Claus, J. Bregeon, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, E. Nuss, David Paneque, X. Hou, M. Kuss, T. Kamae, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Miranda Jackson, Alice K. Harding, A. W. Borgland, A. De Angelis, T. Uehara, L. Falletti, G. Tosti, Eugenio Bottacini, Daniel Sánchez, S. J. Fegan, B. Berenji, M. H. Grondin, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Seth Digel, F. Loparco, Giacomo Vianello, O. Tibolla, W. Mitthumsiri, M. Naumann-Godo, Claudia Cecchi, Jürgen Knödlseder, Justin Vandenbroucke, R. E. Hughes, Eric Charles, Andrew W. Strong, Guido Barbiellini, Alex Drlica-Wagner, K. Hayashi, D. J. Suson, Nicola Giglietto, Keith Bechtol, Shiu-Hang Lee, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, Dario Gasparrini, A. P. Waite, M. Ozaki, C. Monte, Ronaldo Bellazzini, T. Glanzman, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, P. Wang, Nicola Omodei, D. J. Thompson, M. Brigida, Emanuele Bonamente, T. Sada, Jun Kataoka, S. Germani, K. S. Wood, A. S. Johnson, S. Larsson, Jay P. Norris, James Chiang, Roger Blandford, S. Rainò, Tsunefumi Mizuno, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, P. Fusco, Hiroaki Yamamoto, A. Reimer, J. F. Ormes, J. G. Thayer, J. Mehault, Carla Sbarra, Julie McEnery, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, L. Tibaldo, S. Buson, D. Parent, Yasuo Fukui, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Luca Baldini, M. Pierbattista, Diego F. Torres, Mn Mazziotta, C. Romoli, E. Do Couto E Silva, Jean Ballet, Stefano Ciprini, Elliott D. Bloom, R. Buehler, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Hideaki Katagiri, F. D'Ammando, Akira Okumura, Daniela Hadasch, Jan Conrad, G. Godfrey, F. de Palma, and Ryosuke Itoh
Subjects: Physics, Molecular cloud, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, law.invention, Interstellar medium, Telescope, Space and Planetary Science, law, ddc:520, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 778(1), 82 (2013). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/778/1/82, This is an Erratum for the article 2012 ApJ 755 22, Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2013
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23. Determination of the Point-spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei

Author: G. Busetto, Brian L Winer, S. Cutini, A. A. Moiseev, Katsuaki Asano, Francesco Longo, Gudlaugur Johannesson, F. Loparco, E. Do Couto E Silva, W. Mitthumsiri, T. A. Porter, A. P. Waite, T. J. Brandt, Jean Ballet, Stefan Funk, Daniel Sánchez, Claudia Lavalley, Sho Nishino, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Justin Vandenbroucke, T. E. Stephens, A. Morselli, V. Vitale, Jeffrey D. Scargle, P. Fusco, Stefano Ciprini, Igor V. Moskalenko, Matthew Kerr, A. W. Borgland, I. A. Grenier, S. Germani, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Miranda Jackson, Nicola Omodei, Guido Barbiellini, S. J. Fegan, Olaf Reimer, Zhenwei Yang, Elliott D. Bloom, G. Godfrey, Kent S. Wood, T. Jogler, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Soebur Razzaque, Jay P. Norris, M. Razzano, P. Fortin, L. S. Rochester, C. Favuzzi, V. Vasileiou, R. Claus, Matthew Wood, Stephan Zimmer, J. F. Ormes, N. Gehrels, James Chiang, Hiroyasu Tajima, Gino Tosti, Jan Conrad, F. de Palma, R. E. Hughes, E. Wallace, Dario Gasparrini, Patrick Weltevrede, E. Nuss, Paola Grandi, P. Lubrano, Hiromitsu Takahashi, M. Brigida, Sylvain Chaty, A. Chekhtman, David Paneque, Claudia Cecchi, S. Rainò, J. G. Thayer, T. Kamae, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Randall P. Johnson, Rodrigo Nemmen, R. Dubois, E. Orlando, J. M. Casandjian, D. Horan, F. D'Ammando, W. B. Focke, M. Kuss, C. Monte, M. E. Monzani, Gloria Spandre, P. Spinelli, M. N. Mazziotta, Jun Kataoka, Pascal Bruel, J. Mehault, Emanuele Bonamente, R. Buehler, J. E. Grove, S. Larsson, T. L. Usher, Francesco Giordano, D. J. Thompson, Daniela Hadasch, M. Roth, Yasushi Fukazawa, T. H. Burnett, A. S. Johnson, M. Orienti, S. Murgia, O. Tibolla, Benoit Lott, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Takaaki Tanaka, F. Piron, A. Snyder, Keith Bechtol, Johan Bregeon, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Alice Allafort, Roberto Mignani, Eric Charles, Julie McEnery, Morihiro Hayashida, E. Hays, Steven Ritz, D. J. Suson, C. C. Cheung, W. McConville, L. C. Reyes, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, M. Naumann-Godo, L. Tibaldo, W. B. Atwood, J. S. Perkins, Nicola Giglietto, F. Gargano, Luca Latronico, G. A. Caliandro, H. Poon, S. Colafrancesco, M. N. Lovellette, P. A. Caraveo, Persis S. Drell, M. Tinivella, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, V. Pelassa, E. J. Siskind, J. H. Panetta, Markus Ackermann, A. N. Cillis, R. A. Cameron, Luca Baldini, M. Pierbattista, Denis Bastieri, A. von Kienlin, C. Romoli, J. Lande, Sylvain Guiriec, A. Reimer, S. Buson, P. M. Saz Parkinson, Suk-Han Lee, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, T. Glanzman, Jürgen Knödlseder, G. Pivato, Eugenio Bottacini, Charles D. Dermer, X. Hou, Giacomo Vianello, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Bari (INFN, sezione di Bari), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), GLAST, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Allafort, A., Asano, K., Atwood, W. B., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., BARBIELLINI AMIDEI, Guido, Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Bloom, E. D., Bonamente, E., Borgland, A. W., Bottacini, E., Brandt, T. J., Bregeon, J., Brigida, M., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Burnett, T. H., Busetto, G., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Casandjian, J. M., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chaty, S., Chekhtman, A., Cheung, C. C., Chiang, J., Cillis, A. N., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen Tanugi, J., Colafrancesco, S., Conrad, J., Cutini, S., D'Ammando, F., de Palma, F., Dermer, C. D., Silva, E. do Couto e., Drell, P. S., Drlica Wagner, A., Dubois, R., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Fortin, P., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Gehrels, N., Germani, S., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Grandi, P., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guiriec, S., Hadasch, D., Hayashida, M., Hays, E., Horan, D., Hou, X., Hughes, R. E., Jackson, M. S., Jogler, T., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, R. P., Johnson, A. S., Kamae, T., Kataoka, J., Kerr, M., Knödlseder, J., Kuss, M., Lande, J., Larsson, S., Latronico, L., Lavalley, C., Lee, S. H., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Mcconville, W., Mcenery, J. E., Mehault, J., Michelson, P. F., Mignani, R. P., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monte, C., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Naumann Godo, M., Nemmen, R., Nishino, S., Norris, J. P., Nuss, E., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orienti, M., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Panetta, J. H., Pelassa, V., Perkins, J. S., Pesce Rollins, M., Pierbattista, M., Piron, F., Pivato, G., Poon, H., Porter, T. A., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Razzaque, S., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reyes, L. C., Ritz, S., Rochester, L. S., Romoli, C., Roth, M., Sanchez, D. A., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Scargle, J. D., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Snyder, A., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stephens, T. E., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, T., Thayer, J. G., Thayer, J. B., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Tibolla, O., Tinivella, M., Tosti, G., Troja, E., Usher, T. L., Vandenbroucke, J., Vasileiou, V., Vianello, G., Vitale, V., von Kienlin, A., Waite, A. P., Wallace, E., Weltevrede, P., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., Wood, M., Yang, Z., Zimmer, S., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ackermann M, Ajello M, Allafort A, Asano K, Atwood WB, Baldini L, Ballet J, Barbiellini G, Bastieri D, Bechtol K, Bellazzini R, Bloom ED, Bonamente E, Borgland AW, Bottacini E, Brandt TJ, Bregeon J, Brigida M, Bruel P, Buehler R, Burnett TH, Busetto G, Buson S, Caliandro GA, Cameron RA, Caraveo PA, Casandjian JM, Cecchi C, Charles E, Chaty S, Chekhtman A, Cheung CC, Chiang J, Cillis AN, Ciprini S, Claus R, Cohen-Tanugi J, Colafrancesco S, Conrad J, Cutini S, DAmmando F, de Palma F, Dermer CD, Silva EDE, Drell S, Drlica-Wagner A, Dubois R, Favuzzi C, Fegan SJ, Ferrara EC, Focke WB, Fortin P, Fukazawa Y, Funk S, Fusco P, Gargano F, Gasparrini D, Gehrels N, Germani S, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giroletti M, Glanzman T, Godfrey G, Grandi P, Grenier IA, Grove JE, Guiriec S, Hadasch D, Hayashida M, Hays E, Horan D, Hou X, Hughes RE, Jackson MS, Jogler T, Johannesson G, Johnson RP, Johnson AS, Kamae T, Kataoka J, Kerr M, Knodlseder J, Kuss M, Lande J, Larsson S, Latronico L, Lavalley C, Lee SH, Longo F, Loparco F, Lott B, Lovellette MN, Lubrano P, Mazziotta MN, McConville W, McEnery JE, Mehault J, Michelson PF, Mignani RP, Mitthumsiri W, Mizuno T, Moiseev AA, Monte C, Monzani ME, Morselli A, Moskalenko IV, Murgia S, Naumann-Godo M, Nemmen R, Nishino S, Norris JP, Nuss E, Ohsugi T, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlando E, Ormes JF, Paneque D, Panetta JH, Pelassa V, Perkins JS, Pesce-Rollins M, Pierbattista M, Piron F, Pivato G, Poon H, Porter TA, Raino S, Rando R, Razzano M, Razzaque S, Reimer A, Reimer O, Reyes LC, Ritz S, Rochester LS, Romoli C, Roth M, Sanchez DA, Parkinson PMS, Scargle JD, Sgro C, Siskind EJ, Snyder A, Spandre G, Spinelli P, Stephens TE, Suson DJ, Tajima H, Takahashi H, Tanaka T, Thayer JG, Thayer JB, Thompson DJ, Tibaldo L, Tibolla O, Tinivella M, Tosti G, Troja E, Usher TL, Vandenbroucke J, Vasileiou V, Vianello G, Vitale V, von Kienlin A, Waite AP, Wallace E, Weltevrede P, Winer BL, Wood KS, Wood M, Yang Z, Zimmer S, National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), and Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Ciencias Físicas, EXTRAGALACTIC MAGNETIC-FIELDS, halo [galaxies], galaxies: halos, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, galaxies, [gamma rays], law.invention, Spitzer Space Telescope, law, 1ES 0229+200, SPACE-TELESCOPE, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, TEV BLAZARS, detector [instrumentation], [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, detectors, intergalactic medium [instrumentation], VHE GAMMA-RAYS, galaxies: active – galaxies: halos – gamma rays: galaxies – instrumentation: detectors – intergalactic medium, halos [galaxies], active [galaxies], intergalactic medium, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS, Point spread function, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Active galactic nucleus, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, galaxies: active, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Telescope, 0103 physical sciences, gamma rays: galaxies, instrumentation: detectors, galaxie [gamma rays], Blazar, SOURCE CATALOG, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, BACKGROUND LIGHT, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, CONSTRAINTS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, PULSAR, Galaxy, DISCOVERY, Astronomía, Space and Planetary Science, ddc:520, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: The astrophysical journal 765(1), 54 (2013). doi:10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/54, The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to detect photons with energies from ≈20 MeV to >300 GeV. The pre-launch response functions of the LAT were determined through extensive Monte Carlo simulations and beam tests. The point-spread function (PSF) characterizing the angular distribution of reconstructed photons as a function of energy and geometry in the detector is determined here from two years of on-orbit data by examining the distributions of γ rays from pulsars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Above 3 GeV, the PSF is found to be broader than the pre-launch PSF. We checked for dependence of the PSF on the class of γ-ray source and observation epoch and found none. We also investigated several possible spatial models for pair-halo emission around BL Lac AGNs. We found no evidence for a component with spatial extension larger than the PSF and set upper limits on the amplitude of halo emission in stacked images of low- and high-redshift BL Lac AGNs and the TeV blazars 1ES0229+200 and 1ES0347–121, Published by Univ.11032, Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
Published: 2013
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24. NEW FERMI-LAT EVENT RECONSTRUCTION REVEALS MORE HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA RAYS FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

Author: T. L. Usher, Soebur Razzaque, Francesco Longo, P. Bruel, W. B. Atwood, Jonathan Granot, Stephan Zimmer, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, A. Chekhtman, L. S. Rochester, Carmelo Sgrò, Luca Baldini, Johan Bregeon, Nicola Omodei, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, M. Tinivella, W. B., Atwood, L., Baldini, J., Bregeon, P., Bruel, A., Chekhtman, J., Cohen Tanugi, A., Drlica Wagner, J., Granot, Longo, Francesco, N., Omodei, M., Pesce Rollin, S., Razzaque, L. S., Rochester, C., Sgrò, M., Tinivella, T. L., Usher, and S., Zimmer
Subjects: Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, astroparticle physics, cosmology: observations, gamma rays: general, methods: data analysis, symbols.namesake, data analysis [methods], Event reconstruction, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, GRB 080916C, Gamma ray, astroparticle physic, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Lorentz factor, Extragalactic background light, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Gamma-ray burst, general [gamma rays], observation [cosmology], Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: Based on the experience gained during the four and a half years of the mission, the Fermi -LAT collaboration has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the event-level analysis going under the name of Pass 8. Although it is not yet finalized, we can test the improvements in the new event reconstruction with the special case of the prompt phase of bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), where the signal to noise ratio is large enough that loose selection cuts are sufficient to identify gamma- rays associated with the source. Using the new event reconstruction, we have re-analyzed ten GRBs previously detected by the LAT for which an x-ray/optical follow-up was possible and found four new gamma rays with energies greater than 10 GeV in addition to the seven previously known. Among these four is a 27.4 GeV gamma-ray from GRB 080916C, which has a redshift of 4.35, thus making it the gamma ray with the highest intrinsic energy (147 GeV) detected from a GRB. We present here the salient aspects of the new event reconstruction and discuss the scientific implications of these new high-energy gamma rays, such as constraining extragalactic background light models, Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) tests, the prompt emission mechanism and the bulk Lorentz factor of the emitting region., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, accepted by ApJ
Published: 2013

25. FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUPERNOVA REMNANT G8.7-0.1

Author: Hartmut Sadrozinski, R. A. Cameron, Stefano Ciprini, Marco Ajello, J. B. Thayer, Sho Nishino, Jay P. Norris, Akira Okumura, T. A. Porter, Pascal Bruel, T. Ohsugi, Eleonora Troja, Gloria Spandre, Gudlaugur Johannesson, Elliott D. Bloom, Alex Drlica-Wagner, K. Hayashi, D. Parent, S. Buson, E. Hays, R. Buehler, Luca Latronico, T. Glanzman, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, S. Murgia, Stephan Zimmer, Roger Blandford, F. Piron, Peter F. Michelson, Marcello Giroletti, Justin Vandenbroucke, M. Roth, Guido Barbiellini, Nicola Omodei, G. Godfrey, Zhenwei Yang, Carmelo Sgrò, Riccardo Rando, Yasuo Fukui, A. De Angelis, G. Tosti, R. Dubois, W. B. Focke, V. Pelassa, E. Nuss, David Paneque, M. Ohno, M. E. Monzani, M. Kuss, Alice K. Harding, P. Spinelli, Francesco Giordano, Hideaki Katagiri, F. de Palma, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, A. Van Etten, Igor V. Moskalenko, M. Frailis, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, G. A. Caliandro, Jonathan F. Ormes, Olaf Reimer, E. Do Couto E Silva, B. Berenji, Ryo Yamazaki, Giacomo Vianello, A. Morselli, Hiromitsu Takahashi, V. Vitale, D. Hadasch, Keith Bechtol, S. Rainò, M. Brigida, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hajimu Yasuda, Francesco Longo, C. Favuzzi, Jürgen Knödlseder, E. Orlando, Takeshi Nakamori, J. M. Casandjian, A. Tramacere, R. Claus, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Hiroyasu Tajima, J. Bregeon, Ryosuke Itoh, Nicola Giglietto, P. L. Nolan, J. E. Grove, Yasushi Fukazawa, Takaaki Tanaka, A. P. Waite, S. Germani, Brian L Winer, Shiu-Hang Lee, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Andrea Lionetto, M. N. Lovellette, Dario Gasparrini, Diego F. Torres, Hidetoshi Kubo, P. A. Caraveo, Alice Allafort, P. Fusco, Persis S. Drell, Paolo Giommi, C. Monte, T. Kamae, V. Vasileiou, J. G. Thayer, T. L. Usher, A. A. Moiseev, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Jun Kataoka, S. J. Fegan, J. Mehault, Luca Baldini, A. Reimer, M. Naumann-Godo, Charles D. Dermer, E. J. Siskind, M. Pierbattista, A. S. Johnson, S. Cutini, Claudia Cecchi, F. Loparco, P. Wang, Denis Bastieri, Emanuele Bonamente, J. Lande, Sylvain Guiriec, K. S. Wood, L. Tibaldo, O. Tibolla, N. Vilchez, Y. Hanabata, F. Gargano, P. D. Smith, T. Reposeur, A. W. Borgland, T. Uehara, M. Ziegler, M. N. Mazziotta, A. Chekhtman, P. Lubrano, Eric Charles, D. J. Suson, Jean Ballet, Ajello, M., Allafort, A., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Berenji, B., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonamente, E., Borgland, A. W., Bregeon, J., Brigida, M., Bruel, P., Buehler, R., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Casandjian, J. M., Cecchi, C., Charles, E., Chekhtman, A., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen Tanugi, J., Cutini, S., Angelis, A., Palma, F., Dermer, C. D., E. d. C., Drell, P. S., Drlica Wagner, A., Dubois, R., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Ferrara, E. C., Focke, W. B., Frailis, M., Fukazawa, Y., Fukui, Y., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Germani, S., Giglietto, N., Giommi, P., Giordano, F., Giroletti, M., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Grove, J. E., Guiriec, S., Hadasch, D., Hanabata, Y., Harding, A. K., Hayashi, K., Hays, E., Itoh, R., Johannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Kamae, T., Katagiri, H., Kataoka, J., Kn\odlseder, J., Kubo, H., Kuss, M., Lande, J., Latronico, L., Lee, S., Lionetto, A. M., Longo, Francesco, Loparco, F., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Mazziotta, M. N., Mehault, J., Michelson, P. F., Mizuno, T., Moiseev, A. A., Monte, C., Monzani, M. E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nakamori, T., Naumann Godo, M., Nishino, S., Nolan, P. L., Norris, J. P., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Okumura, A., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paneque, D., Parent, D., Pelassa, V., Pesce Rollins, M., Pierbattista, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Rain\`o, S., Rando, R., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Roth, M., Sadrozinski, H. F., Sgr\`o, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, P. D., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, T., Thayer, J. G., Thayer, J. B., Tibaldo, L., Tibolla, O., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Tramacere, A., Troja, E., Uchiyama, Y., Uehara, T., Usher, T. L., Vandenbroucke, J., Etten, A., Vasileiou, V., Vianello, G., Vilchez, N., Vitale, V., Waite, A. P., Wang, P., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., Yamamoto, H., Yamazaki, R., Yang, Z., Yasuda, H., Ziegler, M., Zimmer, S., Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GLAST, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Cosmic ray, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, acceleration of particles, cosmic rays, gamma rays, ISM, ISM: individual objects (G8.7–0.1, HESS J1804–216), ISM: supernova remnants, Spectral line, Particle decay, individual objects: G8.7{\ndash}0.1 HESS J1804{\ndash}216 [ISM], gamma rays: ISM, ISM: individual objects (G8.7?0.1, ISM [gamma rays], ISM: individual objects (G8.7?0.1, HESS J1804?216), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, 14. Life underwater, Supernova remnant, ISM: individual objects (G8.7-0.1, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, acceleration of particle, cosmic ray, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Acceleration of particles, ISM: individual objects (G8.7-0.1, HESS J1804-216), Physics, Spectral index, HESS J1804-216), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], supernova remnants [ISM], Astronomy, Gamma-ray astronomy, ISM: individual objects: G8.7{\ndash}0.1 HESS J1804{\ndash}216, Interstellar medium, HESS J1804?216), High Energy Physics::Experiment, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: We present a detailed analysis of the GeV gamma-ray emission toward the supernova remnant (SNR) G8.7-0.1 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An investigation of the relationship among G8.7-0.1 and the TeV unidentified source HESS J1804-216 provides us with an important clue on diffusion process of cosmic rays if particle acceleration operates in the SNR. The GeV gamma-ray emission is extended with most of the emission in positional coincidence with the SNR G8.7-0.1 and a lesser part located outside the western boundary of G8.7-0.1. The region of the gamma-ray emission overlaps spatially-connected molecular clouds, implying a physical connection for the gamma-ray structure. The total gamma-ray spectrum measured with LAT from 200 MeV--100 GeV can be described by a broken power-law function with a break of 2.4 $\pm$ 0.6 (stat) $\pm$ 1.2 (sys) GeV, and photon indices of 2.10 $\pm$ 0.06 (stat) $\pm$ 0.10 (sys) below the break and 2.70 $\pm$ 0.12 (stat) $\pm$ 0.14 (sys) above the break. Given the spatial association among the gamma rays, the radio emission of G8.7$-$0.1, and the molecular clouds, the decay of $\pi^{0}$s produced by particles accelerated in the SNR and hitting the molecular clouds naturally explains the GeV gamma-ray spectrum. We also find that the GeV morphology is not well represented by the TeV emission from HESS J1804$-$216 and that the spectrum in the GeV band is not consistent with the extrapolation of the TeV gamma-ray spectrum. The spectral index of the TeV emission is consistent with the particle spectral index predicted by a theory that assumes energy-dependent diffusion of particles accelerated in an SNR. We discuss the possibility that the TeV spectrum originates from the interaction of particles accelerated in G8.7$-$0.1 with molecular clouds, and we constrain the diffusion coefficient of the particles., Comment: 42 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. Corresponding authors: Y. Hanabata, H. Katagiri
Published: 2012
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26. DIRAC framework evaluation for theFermi-LAT and CTA experiments

Author: Matvey Sapunov, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, Stephan Zimmer, Luisa Arrabito, Frederic Piron, M. Renaud, Michael Kuss, Vincent Rolland, Ricardo Graciani Diaz, Francesco Longo, Andrei Tsaregorodtsev, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), D.L. Groep (ed.) , D. Bonacorsi (ed.), Arrabito, L., Cohen Tanugi, J., Diaz, R. Graciani, Longo, Francesco, Kuss, M., Piron, F., Renaud, M., Rolland, V., Sapunov, M., Tsaregorodtsev, A., Zimmer, S., and Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, History, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Large Hadron Collider, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Distributed computing, Dirac (software), DIRAC Framework, Cherenkov Telescope Array, Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, Monte Carlo, GRID, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Context (language use), Astrophysics, Grid, 7. Clean energy, Computer Science Applications, Education, Workflow, DIRAC Framework, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, GRID, Monte Carlo, Workflow management system, Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Abstract: International audience; DIRAC (Distributed Infrastructure with Remote Agent Control) is a general framework for the management of tasks over distributed heterogeneous computing environments. It has been originally developed to support the production activities of the LHCb (Large Hadron Collider Beauty) experiment and today is extensively used by several particle physics and biology communities. Current (Fermi Large Area Telescope – LAT) and planned (Cherenkov Telescope Array – CTA) new generation astrophysical/cosmological experiments, with very large processing and storage needs, are currently investigating the usability of DIRAC in this context. Each of these use cases has some peculiarities: Fermi-LAT will interface DIRAC to its own workflow system to allow the access to the grid resources, while CTA is using DIRAC as workflow management system for Monte Carlo production and analysis on the grid. We describe the prototype effort that we lead toward deploying a DIRAC solution for some aspects of Fermi-LAT and CTA needs. 1. Introduction The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is the primary instrument on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission, launched on June 11, 2008. It is the product of an international collaboration between DOE, NASA and academic US institutions as well as international partners in France, Italy, Japan and Sweden. The LAT is a pair-conversion detector of high-energy gamma rays covering the energy range from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV [1]. It has been designed to detect gamma rays in a broad energy range, with good position resolution (
Published: 2014
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2. Relativistic protons in the Coma galaxy cluster: first gamma-ray constraints ever on turbulent reacceleration

3. A Search for Cosmic-ray Proton Anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

4. Search for features in the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectrum measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

5. An algorithm to resolve {\gamma}-rays from charged cosmic rays with DAMPE

6. The DArk Matter Particle Explorer mission

7. A Parameterized Energy Correction Method for Electromagnetic Showers in BGO-ECAL of DAMPE

8. The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter

9. On the Connection between Turbulent Motions and Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Clusters

10. Direct detection of a break in the teraelectronvolt cosmic-ray spectrum of electrons and positrons

11. Erratum: 'Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from the Coma Cluster with Six Years of Fermi-LAT Data' (2016, ApJ, 819, 149)

12. Resolving the Extragalactic γ-Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

13. FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS of HIGH-ENERGY γ-RAY EMISSION TOWARD the GALACTIC CENTER

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16. Sensitivity Projections for Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

17. FERMI-LAT OBSERVATIONS of the LIGO EVENT GW150914

18. Development of the Model of Galactic Interstellar Emission for Standard Point-Source Analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

19. Search for Gamma-Ray Lines towards Galaxy Clusters with the Fermi-LAT

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23. Determination of the Point-spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei

24. NEW FERMI-LAT EVENT RECONSTRUCTION REVEALS MORE HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA RAYS FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

25. FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUPERNOVA REMNANT G8.7-0.1

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