Investigations of Positron Annihilation Radiation

Details Investigations of Positron Annihilation Radiation Investigations of Positron Annihilation Radiation

1999-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911184v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, to appear in "Proceedings of the 5th COMPTON Symposium"

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1303167

By combining OSSE, SMM and TGRS observations of the galactic center region, Purcell et al. (1997) and Cheng et al. (1997) produced the first maps of galactic positron annihilation. That data-set has been augmented with additional data, both recent and archival, and re-analyzed to improve the spectral fitting. The improved spectral fitting has enabled the first maps of positronium continuum emission and the most extensive maps of 511 keV line emission. Bulge and disk combinations have been compared with the 511 keV line data, demonstrating that extended bulges are favored over a GC point source for every disk model tested. This result is independent of whether OSSE-only, OSSE/SMM, or OSSE/SMM/TGRS data-sets are used. The estimated bulge to disk ratio (and to a lesser extent the total flux) is shown to be dependent upon the assumption of bulge shape. A positive latitude enhancement is shown to have an effect upon the B/D ratio, but this effect is secondary to the choice of bulge shape.

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