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Título: High-energy gamma-ray production in microquasars
Autor(es): Christiansen, Hugo
Romero, Gustavo E.
Orellana, Mariana Dominga
Fecha de publicación: jun-2007
Citación: Christiansen, Hugo., Romero, Gustavo E. & Orellana, Mariana D. (2007). High-energy gamma-ray production in microquasars. Sociedad Brasileira Fisica. Brazilian Journal Of Physics; 37; 2B; 545-548
Revista: Brazilian Journal Of Physics
Resumen: A hadronic model for gamma-ray production in microquasars is presented. Microquasars are galactic binary systems with jets, which have, presumably, hadronic components. We consider a microquasar formed by a neutron star that accretes matter from the equatorial wind of a Be primary star. The collision between the jet, emitted by the compact object, and the dense equatorial disk of the companion massive star is responsible for the gamma-ray production. Gamma-rays result from the decay of neutral pions produced in relativistic pp interactions arising from this collision all along the orbit. Assuming a simple, positional independent set of parameters, our calculations are consistent with a peak of gamma-ray flux at the periastron passage with a secondary maximum near apastron. Under this assumption, gamma-ray signals would be in contrast with the radio/X-ray outbursts which peak clearly after periastron. We finally calculate the opacity of the ambient photon field to the propagation of the gamma-rays. The spectral energy distribution appears strongly attenuated in a wide band (50 GeV - 50 TeV) due to local absorption. These spectral features should be detectable by an instrument like MAGIC through exposures integrated along several periastron passages.
URI: http://ref.scielo.org/gsfhzh
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/22323
https://rid.unrn.edu.ar/jspui/handle/20.500.12049/2826
Identificador DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0103-97332007000400012
ISSN: 1678-4448
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