Diffuse 0.511 MeV line emission and the distribution of positron annihilation in the galaxy

Details Diffuse 0.511 MeV line emission and the distribution of positron annihilation in the galaxy Diffuse 0.511 MeV line emission and the distribution of positron annihilation in the galaxy

Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...397..135s&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 397, no. 1, p. 135-147.

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Astronomical Maps, Gamma Ray Spectrometers, Milky Way Galaxy, Nuclear Reactions, Positron Annihilation, Abundance, Diffuse Radiation, Emission Spectra, Field Of View, Galactic Nuclei, Interstellar Matter, Luminosity

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We model the distribution in the Galaxy of 0.511 MeV line emission and the implied positron annihilation using plausible distributions based on observations at other photon energies. We use 0.511 MeV line observations from the Galactic center and from directions away from the Galactic center to normalize the two-dimensional 0.511 MeV sky maps. We find that in order to understand all of the available data it is necessary to invoke the presence of a time-variable component of 0.511 MeV line emission in addition to an underlying diffuse component. The large 0.511 MeV fluxes observed with broad field of view detectors, such as the SMM gamma-ray spectrometer, can be reconciled with the small fluxes seen with narrow field-of-view instruments (GRIS and OSSE) from directions away from the Galactic center if the diffuse emission follows the distribution of Galactic novae for which the recently detected 0.511 MeV line emission from the Galactic center with OSSE is predominantly of diffuse origin. For future GRIS and HEXAGONE observations from the direction of the Galactic center we predict a minimum 0.511 MeV line flux of (6.0 +/- 0.9) x 10 exp -4 photons/sq cm/s.

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