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130 GeV线路是否真实?Fermi-LAT数据中的系统学研究

Is the 130 GeV Line Real? A Search for Systematics in the Fermi-LAT Data

Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Meng Su, Christoph Weniger

摘要:

我们最近在费米-LAT数据中声称在大约130 GeV处有一个银河系中心特征,这促使了大量论文提出解释,从暗物质湮灭到奇异的脉冲星风。由于这种解释对物理学和天体物理学的重要性,发现不仅需要额外的数据,而且需要对可能的LAT系统进行彻底的调查。虽然我们无法访问每个事件重建的详细信息,但我们确实从公共事件列表和航天器参数文件中获得了有关每个事件的信息。这些数据使我们能够搜索可能表明虚假信号的可疑趋势。我们考虑了几个假设,可能使一个仪器人工制品更明显的银河系中心,并发现他们难以置信。我们还寻找一个仪器签名在地球边缘的光子,它提供了一个平滑的参考光谱为零测试。我们没有发现显着的130 GeV的功能在地球的肢体样本。然而,我们发现一个轻微的显着130 GeV的功能,在地球边缘的光子探测器入射角的范围有限。这引起了人们对130 GeV银河系中心特征的担忧,尽管我们想不出将两者联系起来的合理的仪器行为模型。少量的额外肢体数据将告诉我们肢体特征是否是统计上的侥幸。如果分支特征持续存在,它将引起对E > 100 GeV事件的Pass 7处理的怀疑。目前,我们还没有发现任何仪器系统学可以合理地解释银河系中心在130 GeV处的过量辐射。

英文摘要:

Our recent claims of a Galactic center feature in Fermi-LAT data at approximately 130 GeV have prompted an avalanche of papers proposing explanations ranging from dark matter annihilation to exotic pulsar winds. Because of the importance of such interpretations for physics and astrophysics, a discovery will require not only additional data, but a thorough investigation of possible LAT systematics. While we do not have access to the details of each event reconstruction, we do have information about each event from the public event lists and spacecraft parameter files. These data allow us to search for suspicious trends that could indicate a spurious signal. We consider several hypotheses that might make an instrumental artifact more apparent at the Galactic center, and find them implausible. We also search for an instrumental signature in the Earth limb photons, which provide a smooth reference spectrum for null tests. We find no significant 130 GeV feature in the Earth limb sample. However, we do find a marginally significant 130 GeV feature in Earth limb photons with a limited range of detector incidence angles. This raises concerns about the 130 GeV Galactic center feature, even though we can think of no plausible model of instrumental behavior that connects the two. A modest amount of additional limb data would tell us if the limb feature is a statistical fluke. If the limb feature persists, it would raise doubts about the Pass 7 processing of E > 100 GeV events. At present we find no instrumental systematics that could plausibly explain the excess Galactic center emission at 130 GeV.

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