Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aipc..847..289d&link_type=abstract
ORIGIN OF MATTER AND EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES: International Symposium on Origin of Matter and Evolution of Galaxies 2005: New Hori
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Abundances, Chemical Composition, Stellar Structure, Interiors, Evolution, Nucleosynthesis, Ages, Supernovae, Chemical Composition And Chemical Evolution, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation
Scientific paper
Cosmic gamma-ray lines convey isotopic information from sites of nucleosynthesis and from their surrounding interstellar medium. With recent space-borne gamma-ray spectrometers of high resolution (INTEGRAL, RHESSI), new results have been obtained for 44Ti from the Cas A core-collapse supernova, from long-lived radioactive 26Al and 60Fe, and from positron annihilation in our Galaxy: 44Ti ejection from Cas A may be on the low side of previously-reported values, and/or at velocities >7000 km s-1. 26Al sources apparently share the Galactic rotation in the inner Galaxy, and thus allow to estimate a total mass of 26Al in the Galaxy of 2.8 Msolar from the measured flux. The 60Fe production in massive stars appears lower than predicted by standard models, as constrained by the recent, though marginal, 60Fe detections. Positron annihilation in the Galaxy shows a remarkable bulge component, which is difficult to understand in terms of nucleosynthetic production of the positrons.
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