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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2016

Fermi/LAT Study of Gamma-Ray Emission in the Direction of the Monoceros Loop Supernova Remnant

H. Katagiri
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S. Sugiyama
  • Fonction : Auteur
M. Ackermann
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Y. Hanabata
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J. W. Hewitt
  • Fonction : Auteur
M. Kerr
  • Fonction : Auteur
H. Kubo
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P. S. Ray
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

We present an analysis of the gamma-ray measurements by the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the region of the supernova remnant (SNR) Monoceros Loop (G205.5+0.5). The brightest gamma-ray peak is spatially correlated with the Rosette Nebula, which is a molecular cloud complex adjacent to the southeast edge of the SNR. After subtraction of this emission by spatial modeling, the gamma-ray emission from the SNR emerges, which is extended and fit by a Gaussian spatial template. The gamma-ray spectra are significantly better reproduced by a curved shape than a simple power law. The luminosities between 0.2 and 300 GeV are ∼ 4× {10}34 erg s-1 for the SNR and ∼ 3× {10}34 erg s-1 for the Rosette Nebula, respectively. We argue that the gamma-rays likely originate from the interactions of particles accelerated in the SNR. The decay of neutral pions produced in nucleon-nucleon interactions of accelerated hadrons with interstellar gas provides a reasonable explanation for the gamma-ray emission of both the Rosette Nebula and the Monoceros SNR.

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insu-03746215 , version 1 (05-08-2022)

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H. Katagiri, S. Sugiyama, M. Ackermann, J. Ballet, J. M. Casandjian, et al.. Fermi/LAT Study of Gamma-Ray Emission in the Direction of the Monoceros Loop Supernova Remnant. The Astrophysical Journal, 2016, 831, ⟨10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/106⟩. ⟨insu-03746215⟩
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