Intergalactic thermonuclear gamma-ray line

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Feb 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985natur.313..534c&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 313, Feb. 14, 1985, p. 534.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Galactic Clusters, Gamma Ray Astronomy, Intergalactic Media, Thermonuclear Reactions, High Temperature Gases, Virgo Galactic Cluster

Scientific paper

The possibility of thermonculear reactions occurring in dilute space is briefly considered. X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies demonstrates that perhaps as much as 10 to the 14th solar masses of hot gas (T of about 100 million K) may often surround galaxies in clusters with a density of perhaps 0.004/cu cm. If the ion temperature is 100 million K, the thermonuclear reaction p + d to He-3 + gamma ray should emit gamma rays at a rate of roughly 4 x 10 to the 41st/sec with energy 5.516 + or -0.016 MeV. Such a source in teh virgo cluster at 15.7 Mpc would present a line flux of 1 x 10 to the -11th/sq cm/sec.

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