Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The jets of microquasars with high-mass stellar companions are exposed to the dense matter field of the stellar wind. We present estimates of the gamma-ray emission expected from the jet-wind hadronic interaction and we discuss the detectability of the phenomenon at high energies. The proposed mechanism could explain some of the unidentified gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument on the galactic plane.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0309123,
title = {Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars},
author = {Gustavo E. Romero and Diego F. Torres and M. M. Kaufman Bernado and I. F. Mirabel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0309123},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics as a Letter to the Editor