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Measurement of the Fermi-LAT Localization Performance

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2009-12-22 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We present results of a study of the localization capability of Fermi-LAT, using a large set of blazars with precise radio locations. Since the width of the PSF decreases with energy, the performance is typically dominated by a few high energy photons, so it is important to properly characterize the high-energy PSF. Using such data, we have found a need to modify the pre-launch high-energy (greater than a few GeV) PSF derived from extensive Monte Carlo simulations of particle interactions in the LAT; the resulting data-based PSF is shown

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@article{arxiv.0912.3855,
  title  = {Measurement of the Fermi-LAT Localization Performance},
  author = {T. H. Burnett and M. Kerr and M. Roth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3855},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, 2009 Fermi Symposium (eConf Proceedings C091122)