Search for Transient gamma -Ray Line Emission Between 400 and 600 keV from the Crab Nebula

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Dec 1992

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American Astronomical Society, 181st AAS Meeting, #112.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 24, p.1298

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Previous experiments reported transient gamma -ray line emission from the Crab Nebula for periods of several hr, at energies 400-460 keV (Leventhal et al. 1977, Yoshimori et al. 1979, Owens et al. 1985, Massaro et al. 1991) and 545 keV (Sunyaev et al. 1992). We have searched data taken by the SMM Gamma Ray Spectrometer for lines at these energies, using the method of Harris et al. (1991). Line features associated with the pulse period cannot be resolved by this method. We find no evidence of significant line emission at any energy during 1981-1989 on time-scales between ~ 1 d and ~ 1 yr. Our 3 sigma upper limits on the transient flux in any line are characteristically ~ 1.0 times 10(-3) gamma cm(-2) s(-1) over time-scales 12 d or greater, and ~ 2.5 times 10(-3) gamma cm(-2) s(-1) over time-scales ~ 1 d. The duty cycle during 1981-1989 for strong (>> 1times 10(-3) gamma cm(-2) s(-1) ) transient lines on ~ 1 d time-scales, such as those detected by Leventhal et al. (1977), Yoshimori et al. (1979), Owens et al. (1985) and Sunyaev et al. (1992), must have been <1%. We searched our data for the ~ 5 hr on 1981 June 6 coinciding with the transient line at 405 keV detected by Owens et al. (1985). Our null result for this line during that period is inconsistent with the measurement of Owens et al. This work was performed under NASA Grant NAGW-2789. M.J. Harris et al. 1991, Bull AAS 23, 1440. M. Leventhal et al. 1977 ApJ 216, 491. E. Massaro et al. 1991, ApJ 376, L11. A. Owens et al. 1985, Proc. 19th ICRC 1, 145. R. Sunyaev et al. 1992, IAUC 5481. M. Yoshimori et al. 1979, Aust.J. Phys. 32, 375.

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