Gamma Rays from Centaurus A

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2008-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/0804.3017v3

JCAP 0806:022,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, JCAP in press

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2008/06/022

Centaurus A, the cosmic ray accelerator a few Mpc away from us is possibly one of the nearest sources of extremely high energy cosmic rays. We investigate whether the gamma ray data currently available from Centaurus A in the GeV-TeV energy band can be explained with only proton proton interactions. We show that for a single power law proton spectrum, mechanisms of $\gamma$-ray production other than proton proton interactions are needed inside this radio-galaxy to explain the gamma ray flux observed by EGRET, upper limits by H.E.S.S./CANGAROO-III and the correlated extremely energetic cosmic ray events observed by the Pierre Auger experiment. In future with better $\gamma$-ray data, simultaneous observation with $\gamma$-ray and cosmic ray detectors, it would be possible to carry out such studies on different sources in more detail.

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