Speaker
Mr
Mitsunari Takahashi
(ICRR)
Description
Above tens of GeV, gamma-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) are often dominated by statistical uncertainties due to the low source flux and the limited acceptance. The newly released Pass 8 analysis extended the acceptance of Fermi-LAT to ~ 2.5 m^2 sr over 100 GeV, and made effective an event class that can improve the acceptance at these very high gamma-ray energies: the “Calorimeter-only (CalOnly)” event class. While the conventional event classes require information from the LAT tracker, the CalOnly event class, which is still under development, can recover ~40-50% of events above 50 GeV without usable tracker information, at the expense of a worse angular resolution and larger cosmic-ray background. In the conference we will describe the working principle, and report on the performance of this new event class using Monte Carlo simulations and real data from astrophysical VHE sources from the recently-released catalog of LAT sources above 50 GeV (2FHL).
Primary author
Mr
Mitsunari Takahashi
(ICRR)
Co-authors
Dr
Carmelo Sgrò
(INFN Sezione di Pisa)
Dr
David Paneque
(Max Planck Institute for Physics)
Dr
Regina Caputo
(University of California Santa Cruz)
