A Search for Supernova-Remnant Masers Toward Unidentified EGRET Sources

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2001-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107145v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Proceedings, GAMMA2001 (Baltimore, MD, April 4-6, 2001), eds. N. Gehrels, C. Shrader, and S. R

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1419482

Supernova remnants expanding into adjacent molecular clouds are believed to be sites of cosmic ray acceleration and sources of energetic gamma-rays. Under certain environmental conditions, such interactions also give rise to unusual OH masers in which the 1720 MHz satellite line dominates over the more common 1665/7 MHz emission. Motivated by the apparent coincidence of a handful of EGRET sources with OH(1720 MHz) maser-producing supernova remnants, we have carried out a search using the Very Large Array for new OH(1720 MHz) masers within the error regions of 11 unidentified EGRET sources at low Galactic latitude. While a previously known maser associated with an HII region was serendipitously detected, initial results indicate that no new masers were found down to a limiting flux of, typically, 50 mJy. We discuss the implications of this result on the nature of the unidentified Galactic EGRET sources.

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