在银沉平面搜索TeV级未确认源的辐射
天体物理学
2007-05-23 v1
摘要
约70个未确认源可能是EGRET星空调查中最重要的遗产。对这些源在其他波段的识别对于理解其本质至关重要。许多源在10 GeV以下具有平坦的光谱，如果将其外推至TeV能级，将相对于陡峭下降的 diffuse background轻易被检测到。已使用Whipple观测站的伽马射线望远镜对这些源进行观测，选取依据包括位置、强度和光谱，某些情况下亦基于与超新星残留或脉冲星的可能关联。未检测到来自这些源的显著辐射，给出上限值。
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706178,
title = {A Search for TeV Emission from Unidentified Sources in the Galactic Plane},
author = {J. H. Buckley and P. J. Boyle and S. M. Bradbury and A. M. Burdett and J. Bussons Gordo and D. A. Carter-Lewis and M. Catanese and M. F. Cawley and D. J. Fegan and J. P. Finley and J. A. Gaidos and A. M. Hillas and F. Krennrich and R. C. Lamb and R. W. Lessard and C. Masterson and J. E. McEnery and G. Mohanty and J. Quinn and A. J. Rodgers and H. J. Rose and A. C. Rovero and F. W. Samuelson and G. H. Sembroski and R. Srinivasan and T. C. Weekes and J. Zweerink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706178},
year = {2007}
}
备注
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in proceedings of 25th ICRC (Durban)