Cut-off Characterisation of Energy Spectra of Bright Fermi Sources: Current 
Instrument Limits and Future Possibilities

Romoli, Carlo; Taylor, Andrew M.; Aharonian, F. A.

doi:10.1063/1.4968959

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Cut-off Characterisation of Energy Spectra of Bright Fermi Sources: Current Instrument Limits and Future Possibilities

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Aharonian, F. A.
Division Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann, MPI for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Romoli, C., Taylor, A. M., & Aharonian, F. A. (2017). Cut-off Characterisation of Energy Spectra of Bright Fermi Sources: Current Instrument Limits and Future Possibilities. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1792: 050013. doi:10.1063/1.4968959.

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The cut-off region of the gamma-ray spectrum of astrophysical sources encodes important information about the acceleration processes producing the parent particle population. For bright AGNs the cut-off happens in an energy range around a few tens of GeV, a region where satellites are limited by their effective area and current ground based telescopes by energy threshold. In the attempt to maximise the statistics, we have looked at two of the brightest AGNs seen by the Fermi-LAT (3C 454.3 and 3C 279) during extremely luminous flares. Our analysis showed the difficulty to obtain good constraints on the cut-off parameters when a power-law with modified exponential cut-off was assumed to fit the SEDs. We discuss the potential of future low-threshold Cherenkov telescope arrays, in particular CTA, showing the impact that a much bigger effective area can have on the determination of spectral parameters in the cut-off region. This preliminary study serves as an example, demonstrating the importance of having good wide-energy coverage around 10 GeV.