FERMI LAT OBSERVATION OF DIFFUSE GAMMA RAYS PRODUCED THROUGH INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL INTERSTELLAR MATTER AND HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS
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Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi mission of diffuse γ-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude l from 200° to 260° and latitude |b| from 22° to 60°) are reported. The region contains no known large molecular cloud and most of the atomic hydrogen is within 1 kpc of the solar system. The contributions of γ-ray point sources and inverse Compton scattering are estimated and subtracted. The residual γ-ray intensity exhibits a linear correlation with the atomic gas column density in energy from 100 MeV to 10 GeV. The measured integrated γ-ray emissivity is (1.63 ± 0.05) × 10−26 photons s−1sr−1 H-atom−1 and (0.66 ± 0.02) × 10−26 photons s−1sr−1 H-atom−1 above 100 MeV and above 300 MeV, respectively, with an additional systematic error of ∼10%. The differential emissivity from 100 MeV to 10 GeV agrees with calculations based on cosmic ray spectra consistent with those directly measured, at the 10% level. The results obtained indicate that cosmic ray nuclei spectra within 1 kpc from the solar system in regions studied are close to the local interstellar spectra inferred from direct measurements at the Earth within ∼10%.
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A. Abdo
M. Ackermann
M. Ajello
W. Atwood
M. Axelsson
L. Baldini
J. Ballet
G. Barbiellini
D. Bastieri
B. Baughman
K. Bechtol
R. Bellazzini
B. Berenji
E. Bloom
E. Bonamente
A. Borgland
J. Bregeon
A. Brez
M. Brigida
P. Bruel
T. Burnett
G. Caliandro
R. Cameron
P. Caraveo
P. Carlson
J. Casandjian
C. Cecchi
Ö. Çelik
A. Chekhtman
C. Cheung
S. Ciprini
R. Claus
J. Cohen-Tanugi
J. Conrad
S. Cutini
C. Dermer
A. De Angelis
F. de Palma
S. Digel
E. Silva
P. Drell
R. Dubois
D. Dumora
C. Farnier
C. Favuzzi
S. Fegan
W. Focke
M. Frailis
Y. Fukazawa
S. Funk
P. Fusco
F. Gargano
D. Gasparrini
N. Gehrels
S. Germani
B. Giebels
N. Giglietto
F. Giordano
T. Glanzman
G. Godfrey
I. Grenier
M. Grondin
J. Grove
L. Guillemot
S. Guiriec
Y. Hanabata
A. Harding
M. Hayashida
E. Hays
R. E. Hughes
G. Jóhannesson
A. Johnson
R. Johnson
W. Johnson
T. Kamae
H. Katagiri
N. Kawai
M. Kerr
J. Knödlseder
M. Kocian
F. Kuehn
M. Kuss
J. Lande
L. Latronico
M. Lemoine-Goumard
F. Longo
F. Loparco
B. Lott
M. Lovellette
P. Lubrano
A. Makeev
M. Mazziotta
J. Mcenery
C. Meurer
P. Michelson
W. Mitthumsiri
T. Mizuno
A. Moiseev
C. Monte
M. Monzani
A. Morselli
I. Moskalenko
S. Murgia
P. Nolan
J. Norris
É. Nuss
T. Ohsugi
A. Okumura
N. Omodei
E. Orlando
J. Ormes
M. Ozaki
D. Paneque
J. Panetta
D. Parent
M. Pepe
M. Pesce-Rollins
F. Piron
M. Pohl
T. Porter
S. Rainò
R. Rando
M. Razzano
A. Reimer
O. Reimer
T. Reposeur
S. Ritz
L. Rochester
A. Rodríguez
F. Ryde
H. Sadrozinski
D. Sanchez
A. Sander
P. Parkinson
T. Schalk
A. Sellerholm
C. Sgro’
D. Smith
P. Smith
G. Spandre
P. Spinelli
J. Starck
F. Stecker
M. Strickman
A. Strong
D. Suson
H. Tajima
H. Takahashi
T. Takahashi
T. Tanaka
J. Thayer
J. Thayer
D. Thompson
L. Tibaldo
D. Torres
G. Tosti
A. Tramacere
Y. Uchiyama
T. Usher
V. Vasileiou
N. Vilchez
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A. Waite
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B. Winer
K. Wood
T. Ylinen
M. Ziegler
Format Sitasi
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2009
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 87×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/1249
- Akses
- Open Access ✓