Fermi-LAT data reprocessed with updated calibration constants
arXiv:1304.5456
Abstract
Four years into the mission, the understanding of the performance of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and data analysis have increased enormously since launch. Thanks to a careful analysis of flight data, we were able to trace back some of the most significant sources of systematic uncertainties to using non-optimal calibration constants for some of the detectors. In this paper we report on a major effort within the LAT Collaboration to update these constants, to use them to reprocess the first four years of raw data, and to investigate the improvements observed for low- and high-level analysis. The Pass 7 reprocessed data, also known as P7REP data, are still being validated against the original Pass~7 (P7) data by the LAT Collaboration and should be made public, along with the corresponding instrument response functions, in the spring of 2013.
5 pages, 6 figures, prepared for the 2012 Fermi Symposium proceedings - eConf C121028
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