Cargando…

Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited

We search for the presence of double gamma-ray line from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources including detailed Monte Carlo simulations to study its global statistical significance. Applying the Su & Finkbeiner selection criteria for high-energy photons we obtain a similar excess over the power-law b...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Hektor, Andi, Raidal, Martti, Tempel, Elmo
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2012
Materias:
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1472407
_version_ 1780925413879447552
author Hektor, Andi
Raidal, Martti
Tempel, Elmo
author_facet Hektor, Andi
Raidal, Martti
Tempel, Elmo
author_sort Hektor, Andi
collection CERN
description We search for the presence of double gamma-ray line from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources including detailed Monte Carlo simulations to study its global statistical significance. Applying the Su & Finkbeiner selection criteria for high-energy photons we obtain a similar excess over the power-law background from 12 unassociated sources. However, the Fermi-LAT energy resolution and the present low statistics does not allow to distinguish a double peak from a single one with any meaningful statistical significance. We study the statistical significance of the fit to data with Monte Carlo simulations and show that the fit agrees almost perfectly with the expectations from random scan over the sky. We conclude that the claimed high-energy gamma-ray excess over the power-law background from unassociated sources is nothing but an artifact of the applied selection criteria and no preference to any excess can be claimed with the present statistics.
id cern-1472407
institution Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear
language eng
publishDate 2012
record_format invenio
spelling cern-14724072019-09-30T06:29:59Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1472407engHektor, AndiRaidal, MarttiTempel, ElmoDouble gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisitedAstrophysics and AstronomyWe search for the presence of double gamma-ray line from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources including detailed Monte Carlo simulations to study its global statistical significance. Applying the Su & Finkbeiner selection criteria for high-energy photons we obtain a similar excess over the power-law background from 12 unassociated sources. However, the Fermi-LAT energy resolution and the present low statistics does not allow to distinguish a double peak from a single one with any meaningful statistical significance. We study the statistical significance of the fit to data with Monte Carlo simulations and show that the fit agrees almost perfectly with the expectations from random scan over the sky. We conclude that the claimed high-energy gamma-ray excess over the power-law background from unassociated sources is nothing but an artifact of the applied selection criteria and no preference to any excess can be claimed with the present statistics.arXiv:1208.1996CERN-PH-TH-2012-221oai:cds.cern.ch:14724072012-08-10
spellingShingle Astrophysics and Astronomy
Hektor, Andi
Raidal, Martti
Tempel, Elmo
Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited
title Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited
title_full Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited
title_fullStr Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited
title_full_unstemmed Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited
title_short Double gamma-ray lines from unassociated Fermi-LAT sources revisited
title_sort double gamma-ray lines from unassociated fermi-lat sources revisited
topic Astrophysics and Astronomy
url http://cds.cern.ch/record/1472407
work_keys_str_mv AT hektorandi doublegammaraylinesfromunassociatedfermilatsourcesrevisited
AT raidalmartti doublegammaraylinesfromunassociatedfermilatsourcesrevisited
AT tempelelmo doublegammaraylinesfromunassociatedfermilatsourcesrevisited