High-Latitude Molecular Clouds as gamma-ray Sources for GLAST

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2005-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501385v1

Astrophys.J. 621 (2005) L29-L32

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/428903

For about two decades, a population of relative small and nearby molecular clouds has been known to exist at high Galactic latitudes. Lying more than 10$^\circ$ from the Galactic plane, these clouds have typical distances of $\sim$150 pc, angular sizes of $\sim1^\circ$, and masses of order tens of solar masses. These objects are passive sources of high-energy $\gamma$-rays through cosmic ray-gas interactions. Using a new wide-angle CO survey of the northern sky, we show that typical high-latitude clouds are not bright enough in $\gamma$-rays to have been detected by EGRET, but that of order 100 of them will be detectable by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on GLAST. Thus, we predict a new steady population of $\gamma$-ray sources at high Galactic latitudes, perhaps the most numerous after active galactic nuclei.

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