Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991aipc..232..361l&link_type=abstract
IN: Gamma-ray line astrophysics; Proceedings of the International Symposium, Paris, France, Dec. 10-13, 1990 (A92-43619 18-90).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Compton Effect, Crab Nebula, Gamma Ray Spectra, Power Spectra, Taurus Constellation, Neutron Stars, Plasma Turbulence, Relativistic Particles, Synchrotron Radiation
Scientific paper
Preliminary results are reported of observations of strong (greater than 10 sigma) variable MeV emission from the Taurus region, possibly the Crab nebula, in 1980 by the HEAO 3 Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy experiment. The about 50-day time-averaged spectrum of the Crab shows a new component, which consists of a hard spectral 'knee' in the 0.4-1 MeV range, followed by a higher energy component extending to greater than 3 MeV, superposed on the canonical Crab power law spectrum with a spectral index of 2.2. This new spectral component was not observed four months earlier in the fall of 1979, when the spectrum was consistent with a single power law with the index of 2.2, the same as that observed in 1980. There is no indication that the gamma-ray emission was pulsed.
Dermer Charles D.
Ling James C.
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