Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars
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Hadronic gamma-ray emission from windy microquasars
The jets of microquasars with high-mass stellar companions are exposed to the dense matter field of the stellar wind. We present estimates of the gamma-ray emission expected from the jet-wind hadronic interaction and we discuss the detectability of the phenomenon at high energies. The proposed mechanism could explain some of the unidentified gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument on the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031314-1