Gamma rays from halos around stars and the Sun

نویسندگان

  • E. Orlando
  • A. W. Strong
چکیده

Inverse Compton (IC) scattering by relativis-tic electrons produces a major component of the diffuse emission from the Galaxy. The photon fields involved are the cosmic microwave background and the interstel-lar radiation field (ISRF) from stars and dust. We expect which could be detectable by instruments such as GLAST. Even individual nearby luminous stars could be detectable assuming just the normal cosmic-ray electron spectrum. We present the basic formalism required and give possible candidate stars to be detected and make prediction for GLAST. Then we apply the formalism to the OB associations and the Sun, showing that the IC emission produced is not negligible compared to the sensitivity of current or coming detectors. We estimate that the gamma-ray flux from the halo around the Sun contributes to the diffuse background emission at few percent level.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

mini-streams by stars

The promising neutralino dark matter particles generically condense into numerous earth-mass dark halos with smaller substructures suppressed by free streaming[1]. The recent Letter to Nature[2] claims that these 0.01pc-sized dense halos emerged at redshifts 60–26 are rarely destructed inside galaxies, hence the nearest halos at about 0.1pc from Earth are bright in annihilation-powered gamma-ra...

متن کامل

The axion–photon interaction and gamma ray signals of dark matter

We explore two scenarios where the axion-photon interaction could induce additional astrophysical gamma ray signals for the dark matter. In the first scenario, dark compact objects made of axions, named axion stars, could collide with neutron stars. The whole energy of the axion star can be dissipated in the magnetized conducting medium of the neutron star generating gamma rays. The second scen...

متن کامل

Gamma rays from the Galactic bulge and large extra dimensions.

An intriguing feature of extra dimensions is the possible production of Kaluza-Klein gravitons by nucleon-nucleon bremsstrahlung, in the course of core collapse of massive stars, with gravitons then being trapped around the newly born neutron stars and decaying into two gamma rays, making neutron stars gamma-ray sources. We strengthen the limits on the radius of compactification of extra dimens...

متن کامل

Visibility of stars, halos, and rainbows during solar eclipses.

The visibility of stars, planets, diffraction coronas, halos, and rainbows during the partial and total phases of a solar eclipse is studied. The limiting magnitude during various stages of the partial phase is presented. The sky radiance during totality with respect to noneclipse conditions is revisited and found to be typically 1/4000. The corresponding limiting magnitude is +3.5. At totality...

متن کامل

High energy gamma rays from old accreting neutron stars

We consider a magnetized neutron star with accretion from a companion star or a gas cloud around it, as a possible source of gamma rays with energy between 100 MeV and 10 − 10 eV . The flow of the accreting plasma is terminated by a shock at the Alfvén surface. Such a shock is the site for the acceleration of particles up to energies of ∼ 10 − 10 eV ; gamma photons are produced in the inelastic...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:

دوره   شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006