We useEGS4 code to simulate the electron-gamma shower ofhigh-energyelectronsin a medium, optimizetargetthickness, and analyze positron distributions in phase space.
"If the sudden frequency change is neglected, then after only eight hours, a complete rotation of the pulsar is lost in our counting, and we can no longer determine at which rotational phase the gamma-ray photons reach the detector aboard Fermi, " Pletsch explained.