第谷超新星遗迹的TeV伽马射线辐射的发现
高能天体物理现象
2015-03-19 v2
摘要
我们报告了从Ia型超新星遗迹(SNR) G120.1+1.4（即第谷超新星遗迹）发现TeV伽马射线辐射。2008-2010年期间利用VERITAS地面伽马射线天文台进行的观测显示，来自该遗迹方向存在微弱辐射，与位于（J2000）的点源位置相符。VERITAS测量的TeV光子谱可用幂律描述，其中， cmsTeV。1 TeV以上的积分通量约为稳态蟹状星云在相同能量以上发射的0.9%，使其成为TeV伽马射线中探测到的最弱源之一。我们提出了能够描述数据的轻子和强子模型。这些模型中允许的最低磁场约为G，这可以解释为磁场放大的证据。
引用
@article{arxiv.1102.3871,
title = {Discovery of TeV Gamma Ray Emission from Tycho's Supernova Remnant},
author = {V. A. Acciari and E. Aliu and T. Arlen and T. Aune and M. Beilicke and W. Benbow and S. M. Bradbury and J. H. Buckley and V. Bugaev and K. Byrum and A. Cannon and A. Cesarini and L. Ciupik and E. Collins-Hughes and W. Cui and R. Dickherber and C. Duke and M. Errando and J. P. Finley and G. Finnegan and L. Fortson and A. Furniss and N. Galante and D. Gall and G. H. Gillanders and S. Godambe and S. Griffin and J. Grube and R. Guenette and G. Gyuk and D. Hanna and J. Holder and J. P. Hughes and C. M. Hui and T. B. Humensky and P. Kaaret and N. Karlsson and M. Kertzman and D. Kieda and H. Krawczynski and F. Krennrich and M. J. Lang and S. LeBohec and A. S Madhavan and G. Maier and P. Majumdar and S. McArthur and A. McCann and P. Moriarty and R. Mukherjee and R. A. Ong and M. Orr and A. N. Otte and D. Pandel and N. Park and J. S. Perkins and M. Pohl and J. Quinn and K. Ragan and L. C. Reyes and P. T. Reynolds and E. Roache and H. J. Rose and D. B. Saxon and M. Schroedter and G. H. Sembroski and G. Demet Senturk and P. Slane and A. W. Smith and G. Tešić and M. Theiling and S. Thibadeau and K. Tsurusaki and A. Varlotta and V. V. Vassiliev and S. Vincent and M. Vivier and S. P. Wakely and J. E. Ward and T. C. Weekes and A. Weinstein and T. Weisgarber and D. A. Williams and M. Wood and B. Zitzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3871},
year = {2015}
}
备注
6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted in ApJL