Positron Annihilations at the Galactic Center: Stringent Constraint on Positron Injection Energies
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Stringent constraint on galactic positron production.
The intense 0.511 MeV gamma-ray line emission from the Galactic Center observed by INTEGRAL requires a large annihilation rate of nonrelativistic positrons. If these positrons are injected at even mildly relativistic energies, higher-energy gamma rays will also be produced. We calculate the gamma-ray spectrum due to inflight annihilation and compare it with the observed diffuse Galactic gamma-r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1742-6588,1742-6596
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/60/1/055