Cosmic-ray electron-positron spectrum from 7 GeV to 2 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Abstract
We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray electron +positron spectrum between 7 GeV and 2 TeV performed with almost seven years of data collected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. We find that the spectrum is well fit by a broken power law with a break energy at about 50 GeV. Above 50 GeV, the spectrum is well described by a single power law with a spectral index of 3.07 ±0.02 (stat +syst )±0.04 (energy measurement) . An exponential cutoff lower than 1.8 TeV is excluded at 95% CL.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- April 2017
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1704.07195
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvD..95h2007A
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. D 95, 082007 (2017)