将 TeV 伽马射线源 ARGO J2031+4157 证认为天鹅座茧
高能天体物理现象
2014-07-18 v1
摘要
扩展的 TeV 伽马射线源 ARGO J2031+4157(或 MGRO J2031+41)在位置上与 -LAT 在 GeV 能段于天鹅座超级气泡中发现的天鹅座茧一致。通过重新分析 2007 年 11 月至 2013 年 1 月期间收集的 ARGO-YBJ 数据,评估了 ARGO J2031+4157 的角扩展和能谱。在减去重叠 TeV 源的贡献后,在 {} 的正方形区域内用二维高斯函数拟合 ARGO-YBJ 超额图,发现源扩展 {}= 1.80.5。观测到的微分能谱为 {} photons cm s TeV,能量范围为 0.2-10 TeV。其角扩展与 -LAT 测量的天鹅座茧一致,且能谱也与 1-100 GeV 能段测量的结果显示出良好的衔接。这些特征表明应将 ARGO J2031+4157 证认为天鹅座茧在 TeV 能段的对应体。位于天鹅座 X 恒星形成区的天鹅座茧,被解释为与天鹅座超级气泡相关的 newly accelerated 宇宙线的茧。其与超新星遗迹的光谱相似性表明,超级气泡内的粒子加速机制与超新星遗迹中的类似。从 1 GeV 到 10 TeV 的光谱测量首次允许确定底层粒子分布的可能谱指数。本文采用强子模型来解释光谱能量分布。
引用
@article{arxiv.1406.6436,
title = {Identification of the TeV Gamma-ray Source ARGO J2031+4157 with the Cygnus Cocoon},
author = {YBJ Collaboration and B. Bartoli and P. Bernardini and X. J. Bi and P. Branchini and A. Budano and P. Camarri and Z. Cao and R. Cardarelli and S. Catalanotti and S. Z. Chen and T. L. Chen and P. Creti and S. W. Cui and B. Z. Dai and A. DAmone and Danzengluobu and I. De Mitri and B. DEttorre Piazzoli and T. Di Girolamo and G. Di Sciascio and C. F. Feng and Zhaoyang Feng and Zhenyong Feng and Q. B. Gou and Y. Q. Guo and H. H. He and Haibing Hu and Hongbo Hu and M. Iacovacci and R. Iuppa and H. Y. Jia and Labaciren and H. J. Li and G. Liguori and C. Liu and J. Liu and M. Y. Liu and H. Lu and L. L. Ma and X. H. Ma and G. Mancarella and S. M. Mari and G. Marsella and D. Martello and S. Mastroianni and P. Montini and C. C. Ning and M. Panareo and L. Perrone and P. Pistilli and F. Ruggieri and P. Salvini and R. Santonico and P. R. Shen and X. D. Sheng and F. Shi and A. Surdo and Y. H. Tan and P. Vallania and S. Vernetto and C. Vigorito and H. Wang and C. Y. Wu and H. R. Wu and L. Xue and Q. Y. Yang and X. C. Yang and Z. G. Yao and A. F. Yuan and M. Zha and H. M. Zhang and L. Zhang and P. Zhang and X. Y. Zhang and Y. Zhang and J. Zhao and Zhaxiciren and Zhaxisangzhu and X. X. Zhou and F. R. Zhu and Q. Q. Zhu and G. Zizzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6436},
year = {2014}
}
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16 pages, 3 figures, has been accepted by ApJ for publication