Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1998
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American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint April Meeting, April 18-21, 1998 Columbus, Ohio, abstract #R8.01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The energy profiles of deexcitation gamma-ray lines from recoiling inelastically scattered nuclei exhibit detailed structure. MeV-wide gamma-ray lines from the direction of the Orion nebula have been detected (H. Bloemen, et al., Astr. and Astrophys. L5, 281 (1994).) by COMPTEL whose source is postulated to be cosmic ray carbon and oxygen nuclei shock accelerated near supernova remnants colliding with ambient hydrogen and helium. Even when the heavy ion velocity distributions are isotropic, structure characteristic of the multipolarity of the gamma transition remains (A. M. Bykov et al, Astr. and Astrophys. 607, L37 (1996); B. Kozlovsky et al, Astrophys. J. 484, (1997).). In experiments in which the energy dependent structure of the deexcitation gamma-ray profiles is not resolved, the gammas display a high degree of linear polarization that rapidly changes with gamma-beam angle. We calculate the polarization, both linear and circular, as a function of gamma-ray energy across the laboratory line profiles of C12*(4.44) and O16*(6.13) inelastically excited by protons and alphas. We then investigate the polarization in the surviving structures for isotropic energetic ions colliding with ^1H and ^4He.
Lang Frederic L.
Werntz Carl
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