X-Rays from Accelerated Ion Interactions
摘要
We have developed in detail the theory of X-ray line and continuum production due to atomic interactions of accelerated ions, incorporating in our calculations information from a broad range of laboratory measurements. We applied our calculations to the Orion region from which nuclear gamma-ray lines were observed with the COMPTEL instrument on CGRO. The accelerated particles which produce this gamma-ray emission via nuclear reactions also produce X-ray lines via atomic interactions. We predict strong line emission in the range from 0.5 to 1 keV, mainly due to de-excitations in fast O ions. While much of the diffuse X-ray emission observed with ROSAT from Orion could be due to accelerated ions, the current X-ray data do not provide unambiguous signatures for such an origin. If future observations with high spectral resolution would confirm the predicted X-rays, the combined analysis of the X-ray and gamma-ray data will set important constraints on the origin of the accelerated particles and their interaction model.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9804269,
title = {X-Rays from Accelerated Ion Interactions},
author = {V. Tatischeff and R. Ramaty and B. Kozlovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9804269},
year = {2009}
}
备注
26 pages, 14 figures