Discovery of Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane using Milagro Detector

Details Discovery of Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane using Milagro Detector Discovery of Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane using Milagro Detector

Feb 2005

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HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: 2nd International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vo

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X- And Gamma-Ray Telescopes And Instrumentation

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Milagro is a water Cherenkov extensive air shower array that continuously views the entire overhead sky and is sensitive to gamma rays with energies near 1 TeV. Prior to this work, EGRET had observed the highest energy gamma rays from the Galactic plane. In the direction of the inner Galaxy and at energies between 1 GeV and 30 GeV, EGRET measured a gamma-ray spectral index of approximately αγ = 2.4, harder than the cosmic-ray spectrum. The shape and intensity of the spectrum beyond EGRET energies is sensitive to the production and propagation of cosmic rays. Here we report the detection of the TeV gamma rays from the region of the Milagro inner Galaxy (+/-5° Galactic latitude and (40°, 100°) Galactic longitude) with a significance of 5σ. The integral flux is estimated to be Φγ(E > 1TeV) = (5.7 +/- 2.0) . 10-10 (ster-1cm-2sec-1) assuming a differential power law spectral index of 2.7 and an EGRET-like source distribution. Comparison with EGRET's data from the same part of the Galaxy may be used to constrain models of cosmic-ray production in the Galaxy.

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