Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2009-12-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
5 pages, 5 figures, 2009 Fermi Symposium eConf Proceedings C091122
Scientific paper
Launched on the 11th of June 2008, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has made several outstanding scientific contributions to the high energy astrophysics community. One of these contributions was the high statistics measurement of the Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) electron + positron spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV. The Fermi satellite is in a nearly circular orbit with an inclination of 25.6 degrees at an altitude of 565 km. Given this orbit it is possible to measure the GCR electrons + positrons down to roughly 5 GeV. However, this lower limit in energy is highly dependent on the orbital position of the LAT in geomagnetic coordinates due to the rigidity cutoff. In order to measure the spectrum down to these energies it is necessary to sample the population of electrons + positrons in several different geomagnetic positions. In this poster we present the analysis performed to extend the lower limit in energy of the GCR electron + positron spectrum measured by the Fermi LAT.
for the Fermi-LAT Collaboration
Pesce-Rollins Melissa
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