Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-12
Astrophys.J.646:965-981,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/504967
We have carried out an extensive search for gamma-ray lines in the first year of public data from the Spectrometer (SPI) on the INTEGRAL mission. INTEGRAL has spent a large fraction of its observing time in the Galactic Plane with particular concentration in the Galactic Center (GC) region (~ 3 Msec in the first year). Hence the most sensitive search regions are in the Galactic Plane and Center. The phase space of the search spans the energy range 20-8000 keV and line widths from 0-1000 keV (FWHM). It includes both diffuse and point-like emission. We have searched for variable emission on time scales down to ~ 1000 sec. Diffuse emission has been searched for on a range of different spatial scales from ~ 20 deg (the approximate field-of-view of the spectrometer) up to the entire Galactic Plane. Our search procedures were verified by the recovery of the known gamma-ray lines at 511 keV and 1809 keV at the appropriate intensities and significances. We find no evidence for any previously unknown gamma-ray lines. The upper limits range from a few x 10^-5 cm^-2 s^-1 to a few x 10^-2 cm^-2 s^-1 depending on line width, energy and exposure; regions of strong instrumental background lines were excluded from the search. Comparison is made between our results and various prior predictions of astrophysical lines.
Teegarden Bonnard J.
Watanabe Katsuhiro
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