Massive protostars as gamma-ray sources

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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10 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Massive protostars have associated bipolar outflows with velocities of hundreds of km s$^{-1}$. Such outflows can produce strong shocks when interact with the ambient medium leading to regions of non-thermal radio emission. We aim at exploring under which conditions relativistic particles are accelerated at the terminal shocks of the protostellar jets and can produce significant gamma-ray emission. We estimate the conditions necessary for particle acceleration up to very high energies and gamma-ray production in the non-thermal hot spots of jets associated with massive protostars embedded in dense molecular clouds. We show that relativistic Bremsstrahlung and proton-proton collisions can make molecular clouds with massive young stellar objects detectable by the {\it Fermi}{} satellite at MeV-GeV energies and by Cherenkov telescope arrays in the GeV-TeV range. Gamma-ray astronomy can be used to probe the physical conditions in star forming regions and particle acceleration processes in the complex environment of massive molecular clouds.

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