2-5 October 2017
Hotel Intourist Kolomenskoye 4*
Europe/Moscow timezone

MEASUREMENTS OF THE COSMIC-RAY ELECTRON AND POSITRON SPECTRUM AND ANISOTROPIES WITH THE FERMI LAT

3 Oct 2017, 16:30
15m
Moskvorechye-2 hall (Hotel Intourist Kolomenskoye 4*)

Moskvorechye-2 hall

Hotel Intourist Kolomenskoye 4*

Kashyrskoye shosse, 39B, Moscow, Russia, 115409
Plenary/section talk Gravitation and cosmology Neutrino and astroparticle physics - 1

Speaker

Dr. Francesco Loparco (Bari University and INFN)

Description

The Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite is a pair-conversion telescope for high-energy gamma rays of astrophysical origin. Although it was designed to be a high-sensitivity gamma-ray telescope, the LAT has proved to be an excellent electron/positron detector. It has been operating in low Earth orbit since June 2008 and has collected more than 16 millions of cosmic-ray electron and positron (CRE) events in its first seven years of operation. The huge data sample collected by the LAT enables a precise measurement of the CRE energy spectrum up to the TeV region. A search for anisotropies in the arrival directions of CREs was also performed. The upper limits on the dipole anisotropies probe the presence of nearby young and middle-aged CRE sources.

Primary author

Dr. Francesco Loparco (Bari University and INFN)

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