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Fermi Lat Observation Of Diffuse Gamma Rays Produced Through Interactions Between Local Interstellar Matter And High-Energy Cosmic Rays

A. A. Abdo
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M. Ackermann
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M. Ajello
altro
M. Ziegler
2009
  • journal article

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THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Abstract
Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi mission of diffuse gamma-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude l from 200 degrees to 260 degrees and latitude vertical bar b vertical bar from 22 degrees to 60 degrees) are reported. The region contains no known large molecular cloud and most of the atomic hydrogen is within 1 kpc of the solar system. The contributions of gamma-ray point sources and inverse Compton scattering are estimated and subtracted. The residual gamma-ray intensity exhibits a linear correlation with the atomic gas column density in energy from 100 MeV to 10 GeV. The measured integrated gamma-ray emissivity is (1.63 +/- 0.05) x 10(-26) photons s(-1)sr(-1) H-atom(-1) and (0.66 +/- 0.02) x 10(-26) photons s(-1)sr(-1) H-atom(-1) above 100 MeV and above 300 MeV, respectively, with an additional systematic error of similar to 10%. The differential emissivity from 100 MeV to 10 GeV agrees with calculations based on cosmic ray spectra consistent with those directly measured, at the 10% level. The results obtained indicate that cosmic ray nuclei spectra within 1 kpc from the solar system in regions studied are close to the local interstellar spectra inferred from direct measurements at the Earth within similar to 10%.
DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/1249
WOS
WOS:000269929500007
Archivio
http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2338250
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-70449568615
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Soggetti
  • High Energy Gamma-ray...

  • Fermi satellite

  • Cosmic Rays

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