GRO source candidates: (A) Nearby modest-size molecular clouds; (B) Pulsar with Wolf-Rayet companion that has lost its H-envelope

Details GRO source candidates: (A) Nearby modest-size molecular clouds; (B) Pulsar with Wolf-Rayet companion that has lost its H-envelope GRO source candidates: (A) Nearby modest-size molecular clouds; (B) Pulsar with Wolf-Rayet companion that has lost its H-envelope

Jul 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989stin...9132021s&link_type=abstract

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Gamma Rays, Molecular Clouds, Pulsars, Radiation Sources, Stellar Envelopes, Wolf-Rayet Stars, Carbon 12, Cirrus Clouds, Cosmic Rays, Hydrogen, Oxygen Isotopes, Pions, Protons, Relativistic Particles, Spallation, Stellar Mass

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Within 100 pc of the sun there are over a hundred cirrus clouds with masses of approx. 60 solar mass and dense molecular clouds with masses of approx. 4 solar mass. If the local interstellar density of cosmic rays is also present in these clouds, the flux of neutral pion from the decay of gamma rays from the core of a cloud at a distance of 20 pc is approx. 13 x 10-8 photons/sq cm/s. The flux from the more extensive cirrus cloud is approx 4 x 10-7 photons/sq cm/s. A relativistic beam of particles generated by a compact stellar object and incident upon a large, close companion can be a strong gamma ray line source if more of the beam energy is used in interactions with C and O and heavier nuclei and less with H and He. This would be the case if the companion has lost its hydrogen envelope and nucleosynthesized much of its He into C, O, and Ne. Such objects are Wolf-Rayet stars and it is believed that some Wolf-Rayet stars do, in fact, have compact companions. For a beam of protons of 1037 erg/s, the flux at 1 kpc of the 4.4 MeV C-12 line could be as high as 5 x 10-6 photons/sq cm/s. The fluxes of the deexcitation lines from the spallation products of O-16 are also presented.

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