Gamma rays and neutrinos from the Crab Nebula produced by pulsar accelerated nuclei

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1997-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704186v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.79:2616-2619,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX uses revtex.sty, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.2616

We investigate the consequences of the acceleration of heavy nuclei (e.g. iron nuclei) by the Crab pulsar. Accelerated nuclei can photodisintegrate in collisions with soft photons produced in the pulsar's outer gap, injecting energetic neutrons which decay either inside or outside the Crab Nebula. The protons from neutron decay inside the nebula are trapped by the Crab Nebula magnetic field, and accumulate inside the nebula producing gamma-rays and neutrinos in collisions with the matter in the nebula. Neutrons decaying outside the Crab Nebula contribute to the Galactic cosmic rays. We compute the expected fluxes of gamma-rays and neutrinos, and find that our model could account for the observed emission at high energies and may be tested by searching for high energy neutrinos with future neutrino telescopes currently in the design stage.

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