Nuclear lines revealing the injection of cosmic rays in supernova remnants

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2011-06-06

arxiv.org/abs/1106.1023v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (TEXAS 2010), Proceedings of Science

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At high energies, the hadronic origin of gamma rays from supernova remnants is still debated. Assuming the observed gamma-rays from the Wolf-Rayet supernova remnant Cas A are due to accelerated protons and ions, we predict the nuclear de-excitation line emission arising from interactions with the heavy elements in the supernova ejecta. This illustrative example highlights the importance of MeV gamma ray observations of the hadronic fingerprint of cosmic rays. The lines could be observed in the MeV band with a future space mission such as GRIPS which has been proposed to ESA as an all-sky survey mission with gamma-ray, X-ray and near-infrared telescopes. In MeV gamma rays, its sensitivity will improve by a factor of 40 compared with previous missions.

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