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Stellar Radioactivities and diffuse gamma-ray line emission in the Milky Way

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

After a short historical introduction to the field of gamma-ray line astronomy with radioactivities, I present an overview of recent results concerning the massive star yields of those radioactivities. I comment on the implications of those results (concerning long-lived radioactivities, like Al-26 and Fe-60) for gamma-ray line astronomy, in the light of past (COMPTEL and GRIS) and forthcoming (INTEGRAL) observations

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209303,
  title  = {Stellar Radioactivities and diffuse gamma-ray line emission in the Milky Way},
  author = {Nikos Prantzos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209303},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Invited review talk in The Gamma-Ray Universe (XXII Moriond Astrophysics meeting), 14 pages, 5 figs. Proceedings edited by A. Goldwurm et al. (in press)