26–29 Aug 2013
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering
US/Pacific timezone

The Fermi bubbles: foreground subtraction and energy spectrum

29 Aug 2013, 14:00
24m
Auditorium (Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering)

Auditorium

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

Speaker

Dmitry Malyshev

Description

The Fermi bubbles are a spectacular remnant of a past activity in or around the Galactic center. I will describe our analysis of the Fermi bubbles using 50 months of the Fermi-LAT data (pass7 reprocessed). One of the main challenges in the analysis is the separation of the Fermi bubbles from the other components of the Galactic diffuse emission. I will talk about two different methods to subtract the foreground emission. Results on the Fermi bubbles energy spectrum will be presented.

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