Authors
Aous A Abdo, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello, WB Atwood, Magnus Axelsson, Luca Baldini, Jean Ballet, Guido Barbiellini, Denis Bastieri, Milan Battelino, BM Baughman, K Bechtol, R Bellazzini, B Berenji, RD Blandford, Elliott D Bloom, G Bogaert, Emanuele Bonamente, AW Borgland, J Bregeon, A Brez, M Brigida, Pascal Bruel, TH Burnett, GA Caliandro, RA Cameron, PA Caraveo, P Carlson, JM Casandjian, Claudia Cecchi, E Charles, A Chekhtman, CC Cheung, J Chiang, S Ciprini, R Claus, J Cohen-Tanugi, LR Cominsky, J Conrad, S Cutini, CD Dermer, Alessandro de Angelis, F De Palma, SW Digel, G Di Bernardo, E Do Couto E Silva, PS Drell, R Dubois, D Dumora, Y Edmonds, C Farnier, C Favuzzi, WB Focke, M Frailis, Y Fukazawa, S Funk, Piergiorgio Fusco, D Gaggero, F Gargano, D Gasparrini, N Gehrels, S Germani, B Giebels, N Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, T Glanzman, G Godfrey, D Grasso, IA Grenier, M-H Grondin, JE Grove, L Guillemot, S Guiriec, Y Hanabata, AK Harding, RC Hartman, M Hayashida, E Hays, RE Hughes, G Jóhannesson, AS Johnson, RP Johnson, WN Johnson, T Kamae, H Katagiri, J Kataoka, N Kawai, M Kerr, J Knödlseder, D Kocevski, F Kuehn, M Kuss, J Lande, L Latronico, M Lemoine-Goumard, Francesco Longo, Francesco Loparco, B Lott, MN Lovellette, P Lubrano, GM Madejski, A Makeev, MM Massai, MN Mazziotta, W McConville, JE McEnery, C Meurer, PF Michelson, W Mitthumsiri, T Mizuno, AA Moiseev, C Monte, ME Monzani, E Moretti, A Morselli, IV Moskalenko, S Murgia, PL Nolan, JP Norris, E Nuss, T Ohsugi, N Omodei, E Orlando, JF Ormes, M Ozaki, D Paneque, JH Panetta, D Parent, V Pelassa, M Pepe, M Pesce-Rollins, F Piron, M Pohl, TA Porter, S Profumo, Silvia Raino, Riccardo Rando, M Razzano, A Reimer, O Reimer, T Reposeur, S Ritz, LS Rochester, AY Rodriguez, RW Romani, M Roth, F Ryde, HF-W Sadrozinski, D Sanchez, A Sander
Publication date
2009/5/8
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
102
Issue
18
Pages
181101
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
Designed as a high-sensitivity gamma-ray observatory, the Fermi Large Area Telescope is also an electron detector with a large acceptance exceeding at 300 GeV. Building on the gamma-ray analysis, we have developed an efficient electron detection strategy which provides sufficient background rejection for measurement of the steeply falling electron spectrum up to 1 TeV. Our high precision data show that the electron spectrum falls with energy as and does not exhibit prominent spectral features. Interpretations in terms of a conventional diffusive model as well as a potential local extra component are briefly discussed.
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