Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2012-01-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
14 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D
Scientific paper
We consider a possibility of identification of sources of cosmic rays (CR) of the energy above 1 TeV via observation of degree-scale extended gamma-ray emission which traces the locations of recent sources in the Galaxy. Such emission in the energy band above 100 GeV is produced by CR nuclei and electrons released by the sources and spreading into the interstellar medium. We use the data from the Fermi gamma-ray telescope to locate the degree-scale 100 GeV gamma-ray sources. We find that the number of such sources and their overall power match to those expected when CRs injection events happen every ~100 yr in portions of ~1e50 erg. We find that most of the sources are associated to pulsars with spin down age less than ~30 kyr and hence to the recent supernova explosions. This supports the hypothesis of supernova origin of Galactic CRs. We notice that the degree-scale extended emission does not surround shell-like supernova remnants without pulsars. Based on this observation, we argue that the presence of the pulsar is essential for the CR acceleration process. We expect that a significant fraction of the degree-scale sources should be detectable as extended sources with km3-scale neutrino detectors.
Neronov Andrey
Semikoz Dmitri V.
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