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Andrea Albert
Researcher at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Publications - 66
Citations - 10115
Andrea Albert is an academic researcher from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope & Dark matter. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 51 publications receiving 8991 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea Albert include Los Alamos National Laboratory & University of São Paulo.
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Searching for dark matter annihilation from Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data
Markus Ackermann,Andrea Albert,Brandon Anderson,W. B. Atwood,Luca Baldini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,R. Bonino,Eugenio Bottacini,T. J. Brandt,Johan Bregeon,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,R. Caputo,M. Caragiulo,P. A. Caraveo,C. Cecchi,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,James Chiang,G. Chiaro,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,Alessandro Cuoco,S. Cutini,Filippo D'Ammando,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,R. Desiante,Seth Digel,L. Di Venere,Persis S. Drell,Alex Drlica-Wagner,R. Essig,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,W. B. Focke,A. Franckowiak,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Nicola Giglietto,Francesco Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,G. A. Gomez-Vargas,I. A. Grenier,Sylvain Guiriec,M. Gustafsson,E. Hays,John W. Hewitt,D. Horan,T. Jogler,Gudlaugur Johannesson,M. Kuss,Stefan Larsson,Luca Latronico,Jingcheng Li,L. Li,M. Llena Garde,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,P. Lubrano,D. Malyshev,M. Mayer,M. N. Mazziotta,Julie McEnery,Manuel Meyer,Peter F. Michelson,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,S. Murgia,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,M. Orienti,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,David Paneque,J. S. Perkins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,R. Rando,M. Razzano,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Steven Ritz,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,André Schulz,Neelima Sehgal,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,F. Spada,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Louis E. Strigari,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,J. B. Thayer,L. Tibaldo,Diego F. Torres,Eleonora Troja,Giacomo Vianello,Michael David Werner,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,Matthew Wood,Gabrijela Zaharijas,Stephan Zimmer +125 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on γ-ray observations of the Milky-Way satellite galaxies (dSphs) based on six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data processed with the new Pass8 event-level analysis.
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The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV
Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Andrea Albert,W. B. Atwood,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Eugenio Bottacini,T. J. Brandt,Johan Bregeon,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,Sara Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,M. Caragiulo,P. A. Caraveo,E. Cavazzuti,Claudia Cecchi,E. Charles,A. Chekhtman,James Chiang,G. Chiaro,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,Alessandro Cuoco,S. Cutini,F. D'Ammando,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,Charles D. Dermer,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,C. Favuzzi,E. C. Ferrara,W. B. Focke,Anna Franckowiak,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,S. Germani,Nicola Giglietto,P. Giommi,Ferdinando Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,G. Godfrey,G. A. Gomez-Vargas,I. A. Grenier,Sylvain Guiriec,Michael Gustafsson,Daniela Hadasch,K. Hayashi,E. Hays,John W. Hewitt,P. Ippoliti,T. Jogler,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Jun Kataoka,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,Stefan Larsson,Luca Latronico,J. Li,Liang Li,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,B. Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,Alberto Manfreda,Francesco Massaro,M. Mayer,M. N. Mazziotta,Julie McEnery,P. F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Rodrigo Nemmen,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,David Paneque,J.H. Panetta,J. S. Perkins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,R. Rando,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Steven Ritz,R. W. Romani,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,M. Schaal,André Schulz,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Andrew W. Strong,D. J. Suson,Hiromitsu Takahashi,J. G. Thayer,J. B. Thayer,L. Tibaldo,M. Tinivella,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Eleonora Troja,Yasunobu Uchiyama,Giacomo Vianello,Michael David Werner,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,Matthew J.A. Wood,Gabrijela Zaharijas,Shanta M. Zimmer +143 more
TL;DR: The IGRB spectrum shows a significant high-energy cutoff feature, and can be well described over nearly four decades in energy by a power law with exponential cutoff having a spectral index of $2.32\pm0.02$ and a break energy of $(279\pm52)$ GeV using our baseline diffuse Galactic emission model as mentioned in this paper.
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The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV
Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Andrea Albert,W. B. Atwood,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Eugenio Bottacini,T. J. Brandt,Johan Bregeon,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,S. Buson,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,M. Caragiulo,P. A. Caraveo,E. Cavazzuti,Claudia Cecchi,Claudia Cecchi,Eric Charles,A. Chekhtman,A. Chekhtman,James Chiang,G. Chiaro,Stefano Ciprini,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,Alessandro Cuoco,Alessandro Cuoco,Alessandro Cuoco,S. Cutini,S. Cutini,Filippo D'Ammando,Filippo D'Ammando,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,Charles D. Dermer,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,W. B. Focke,A. Franckowiak,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,Dario Gasparrini,S. Germani,S. Germani,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Paolo Giommi,Francesco Giordano,Francesco Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,G. Godfrey,G. A. Gomez-Vargas,G. A. Gomez-Vargas,I. A. Grenier,Sylvain Guiriec,Michael Gustafsson,Daniela Hadasch,Katsuhiro Hayashi,E. Hays,John W. Hewitt,John W. Hewitt,P. Ippoliti,T. Jogler,Gudlaugur Johannesson,A. S. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Jun Kataoka,Jürgen Knödlseder,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,Stefan Larsson,Luca Latronico,J. Li,Liang Li,Liang Li,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,G. M. Madejski,Alberto Manfreda,Francesco Massaro,M. Mayer,M. N. Mazziotta,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,Peter F. Michelson,Warit Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,A. A. Moiseev,A. A. Moiseev,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,Rodrigo Nemmen,Rodrigo Nemmen,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,J. F. Ormes,David Paneque,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,J. S. Perkins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,Steven Ritz,Roger W. Romani,Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde,M. Schaal,M. Schaal,André Schulz,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,Andrew W. Strong,D. J. Suson,Hiromitsu Takahashi,J. G. Thayer,J. B. Thayer,L. Tibaldo,M. Tinivella,Diego F. Torres,Diego F. Torres,Gino Tosti,Gino Tosti,Eleonora Troja,Eleonora Troja,Yasunobu Uchiyama,Giacomo Vianello,Michael David Werner,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,Matthew Wood,Gabrijela Zaharijas,Stephan Zimmer +177 more
TL;DR: The first IGRB measurement with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) used 10 months of sky-survey data and considered an energy range between 200 MeV and 100 GeV.
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Constraining Dark Matter Models from a Combined Analysis of Milky Way Satellites with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Andrea Albert,W. B. Atwood,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,B. Berenji,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,Johan Bregeon,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,T. H. Burnett,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,B. Canadas,P. A. Caraveo,J. M. Casandjian,C. Cecchi,E. Charles,A. Chekhtman,James Chiang,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,S. Cutini,A. De Angelis,F. de Palma,Charles D. Dermer,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,Alex Drlica-Wagner,L. Falletti,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,N. Gehrels,S. Germani,Nicola Giglietto,F. Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,Sylvain Guiriec,Mats Gustafsson,Daniela Hadasch,M. Hayashida,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,R. E. Hughes,Tesla E. Jeltema,Gudlaugur Johannesson,R. P. Johnson,A. S. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,J. Lande,Luca Latronico,Andrea Lionetto,M. Llena Garde,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,Grzegorz Madejski,M. N. Mazziotta,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,J. Mehault,Peter F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,M. Naumann-Godo,Jay P. Norris,E. Nuss,T. Ohsugi,Akira Okumura,Nicola Omodei,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,M. Ozaki,David Paneque,David Paneque,D. Parent,D. Parent,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,M. Pierbattista,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,Stefano Profumo,S. Rainò,M. Razzano,A. Reimer,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Olaf Reimer,Steven Ritz,M. Roth,Hartmut Sadrozinski,Carla Sbarra,Jeffrey D. Scargle,T. Schalk,Carmelo Sgrò,E. J. Siskind,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,Louis E. Strigari,D. J. Suson,H. Tajima,H. Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. G. Thayer,J. B. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,M. Tinivella,Diego F. Torres,Eleonora Troja,Yasunobu Uchiyama,Justin Vandenbroucke,V. Vasileiou,Giacomo Vianello,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,Paul J. Wang,Brian L Winer,K. S. Wood,Matthew Wood,Zhenwei Yang,Stephan Zimmer +156 more
TL;DR: This work presents a search for dark matter consisting of weakly interacting massive particles, applying a joint likelihood analysis to 10 satellite galaxies with 24 months of data of the Fermi Large Area Telescope, and is able to rule out models with the most generic cross section, using gamma rays.
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The fermi large area telescope on orbit: Event classification, instrument response functions, and calibration
Markus Ackermann,Marco Ajello,Andrea Albert,Alice Allafort,W. B. Atwood,Magnus Axelsson,Magnus Axelsson,Luca Baldini,Jean Ballet,Guido Barbiellini,Guido Barbiellini,Denis Bastieri,Denis Bastieri,Keith Bechtol,Ronaldo Bellazzini,Elisabetta Bissaldi,Roger Blandford,E. D. Bloom,J. R. Bogart,Emanuele Bonamente,Emanuele Bonamente,A. W. Borgland,Eugenio Bottacini,A. Bouvier,Terri Brandt,Johan Bregeon,M. Brigida,M. Brigida,P. Bruel,R. Buehler,T. H. Burnett,S. Buson,S. Buson,G. A. Caliandro,R. A. Cameron,P. A. Caraveo,J. M. Casandjian,E. Cavazzuti,Claudia Cecchi,Claudia Cecchi,Omer Celik,Omer Celik,Eric Charles,R. C. G. Chaves,A. Chekhtman,C. C. Cheung,James Chiang,Stefano Ciprini,Stefano Ciprini,R. Claus,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Jan Conrad,R. H. D. Corbet,R. H. D. Corbet,S. Cutini,F. D'Ammando,F. D'Ammando,David S. Davis,David S. Davis,A. De Angelis,M. Deklotz,F. de Palma,F. de Palma,Charles D. Dermer,Seth Digel,E. Do Couto E Silva,Persis S. Drell,Alex Drlica-Wagner,R. Dubois,C. Favuzzi,C. Favuzzi,S. J. Fegan,Elizabeth C. Ferrara,W. B. Focke,P. Fortin,Yasushi Fukazawa,Stefan Funk,P. Fusco,P. Fusco,F. Gargano,Dario Gasparrini,N. Gehrels,B. Giebels,Nicola Giglietto,Nicola Giglietto,Francesco Giordano,Francesco Giordano,Marcello Giroletti,T. Glanzman,G. Godfrey,I. A. Grenier,J. E. Grove,Sylvain Guiriec,Daniela Hadasch,M. Hayashida,M. Hayashida,E. Hays,D. Horan,X. Hou,R. E. Hughes,Miranda Jackson,Miranda Jackson,T. Jogler,Gudlaugur Johannesson,R. P. Johnson,Tyrel J. Johnson,W. N. Johnson,T. Kamae,Hideaki Katagiri,Jun Kataoka,Matthew Kerr,Jürgen Knödlseder,Jürgen Knödlseder,M. Kuss,J. Lande,S. Larsson,Luca Latronico,Claudia Lavalley,Marianne Lemoine-Goumard,Francesco Longo,Francesco Longo,F. Loparco,F. Loparco,Benoit Lott,M. N. Lovellette,P. Lubrano,P. Lubrano,M. N. Mazziotta,W. McConville,W. McConville,Julie McEnery,Julie McEnery,J. Mehault,Peter F. Michelson,W. Mitthumsiri,Tsunefumi Mizuno,Alexander Moiseev,Alexander Moiseev,C. Monte,C. Monte,M. E. Monzani,A. Morselli,Igor V. Moskalenko,S. Murgia,M. Naumann-Godo,Rodrigo Nemmen,Sho Nishino,Jay P. Norris,E. Nuss,Masanori Ohno,T. Ohsugi,Akira Okumura,Akira Okumura,Nicola Omodei,M. Orienti,E. Orlando,Jonathan F. Ormes,David Paneque,David Paneque,J. H. Panetta,J. S. Perkins,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,M. Pierbattista,F. Piron,G. Pivato,T. A. Porter,Judith Racusin,S. Rainò,S. Rainò,Riccardo Rando,Riccardo Rando,M. Razzano,M. Razzano,Soebur Razzaque,A. Reimer,Olaf Reimer,T. Reposeur,L. C. Reyes,Steven Ritz,L. S. Rochester,C. Romoli,M. Roth,Hartmut Sadrozinski,Daniel Sánchez,P. M. Saz Parkinson,Carla Sbarra,Jeffrey D. Scargle,Carmelo Sgrò,Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins,E. J. Siskind,Gloria Spandre,P. Spinelli,P. Spinelli,T. E. Stephens,T. E. Stephens,D. J. Suson,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiroyasu Tajima,Hiromitsu Takahashi,Takaaki Tanaka,J. G. Thayer,J. B. Thayer,D. J. Thompson,L. Tibaldo,L. Tibaldo,M. Tinivella,Gino Tosti,Gino Tosti,Eleonora Troja,T. L. Usher,Justin Vandenbroucke,B. van Klaveren,V. Vasileiou,Giacomo Vianello,V. Vitale,V. Vitale,A. P. Waite,E. Wallace,Brian L Winer,D. L. Wood,K. S. Wood,Matthew Wood,Z. Yang,Stephan Zimmer +223 more
TL;DR: The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT, hereafter LAT), the primary instrument on the FermI Gamma-ray Space Telescope (fermi) mission, is an imaging, wide field-of-view, high-energy \gamma-ray telescope, covering the energy range from 20 MeV to more than 300 GeV as discussed by the authors.