Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 1971
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971natur.231..372f&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 231, Issue 5302, pp. 372-375 (1971).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
16
Scientific paper
MORRISON1 was the first to suggest that certain astronomical objects might emit a measurable flux of γ-rays. By the middle of the last decade much theoretical work had been done on the flux to be expected from neutral pion decay, inverse Compton collisions and bremsstrahlung2-6. Evidence for the detection of such a point source of cosmic γ-rays above 50 MeV, Sgr γ-1, was reported by the CWRU-Melbourne collaboration7 and Fazio8 reviewed high energy γ-ray astronomy in early 1970, but as far as we know, no other observation of this source has been made at γ-ray, X-ray or longer wavelengths. The identification of Sgr γ-1 was based on preliminary analysis of spark chamber data from two high altitude flights in Australia and a third flight has confirmed this source. The combined data from the three flights make possible the identification of two other point sources of high energy γ-rays which agree in position with known hard X-ray sources. We find no evidence on any flight for a diffuse line source along the galactic plane.
Albats P. A.
Frye Glenn M.
Zych Allen D.
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