Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996a%26as..120c.471m&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement, v.120, p.471-474
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Gamma Rays: Observations
Scientific paper
Uncovering the nature of the galactic plane gamma-ray sources has been an important problem in high-energy astrophysics since the publication of the COS-B results. Counterpart searches, the most widely pursued method for understanding these sources, have been largely unsuccessful partly because of the poor spatial resolution of gamma-ray instruments. Often there are either many candidates in a field or none and extrapolating poorly defined source characteristics over many orders of magnitude in energy can make identifying non-gamma-ray counterparts difficult. Some progress can be made by learning as much as possible about these sources at energies directly above and below the 100MeV-1GeV range, and then studying adjacent wavelengths. Using this as our approach, we identify ten candidates from the population of unidentified EGRET sources for analysis based upon their 30-100MeV EGRET flux for COMPTEL analysis and present evidence of two possible detections.
Macomb D. J.
Shrader Chris R.
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