Gamma-ray limits on Galactic 60Fe nucleosynthesis and implications on the Origin of the 26Al emission

Details Gamma-ray limits on Galactic 60Fe nucleosynthesis and implications on the Origin of the 26Al emission Gamma-ray limits on Galactic 60Fe nucleosynthesis and implications on the Origin of the 26Al emission

1998-04-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9804074v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

to be published in Astroph. Journal Letters, 12 pages, 3 Postscript figures; added reference for introduction, typos added

Scientific paper

10.1086/311373

The Gamma Ray Imaging Spectrometer (GRIS) recently observed the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic center region. We have detected the 1809 keV Galactic 26Al emission at a significance level of 6.8-sigma but have found no evidence for emission at 1173 keV and 1332 keV, expected from the decay chain of the nucleosynthetic 60Fe. The isotopic abundances and fluxes are derived for different source distribution models. The resulting abundances are between 2.6+-0.4 and 4.5+-0.7 Solar Masses for 26Al and a 2-sigma upper limit for 60Fe between 1.7 and 3.1 Solar Masses. The measured 26Al emission flux is significantly higher than that derived from the CGRO/COMPTEL 1.8 MeV sky map. This suggests that a fraction of the 26Al emission may come from extended sources with a low surface brightness that are invisible to COMPTEL. We obtain a 60Fe to 26Al flux ratio 2-sigma upper limit of 0.14, which is slightly lower than the 0.16 predicted from current nucleosynthesis models assuming that SNII are the major contributors to the galactic 26Al. Since the uncertainties in the predicted fluxes are large (up to a factor of 2), our measurement is still compatible with the theoretical expectations.

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