A geomagnetic filter for the Fermi-LAT background
arXiv:1912.11674 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stz2994
Abstract
One of the unsolved questions in gamma-ray astronomy is whether the extragalactic gamma-ray background is of the discrete-source origin. To respond to this question, one first needs to reduce the data by differentiating charged particles from gamma rays. This procedure is usually performed on the basis of the detector responses. In this paper, we showed that the geomagnetic shielding effect at GeV energies can, to some extent, be used for this purpose for gamma-ray telescopes in a low Earth orbit. We illustrated this method by applying it to the Fermi-LAT data. To partially decompose the charge-filtered background, we examined the contribution from star-forming galaxies by implying a radio/gamma connection in consideration of next generation radio surveys.
arXiv commentPublished in MNRAS. Updated to address typos
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