On the variability of the GeV and multi-TeV gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula

被引：35

作者：

Bednarek, W. ^{[1
]}

Idec, W. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Lodz, Dept Astrophys, PL-90236 Lodz, Poland

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 2011年 / 414卷 / 03期

关键词：

radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; stars: neutron; supernovae: individual: Crab Nebula; gamma-rays: general; HIGH-ENERGY; SHOCK-WAVES; PULSAR; ACCELERATION; SIGNATURES; RADIATION; FLARES; WIND;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18539.x

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Recently, the AGILE gamma-ray telescope has reported enhanced gamma-ray emission above 100 MeV from the direction of the Crab nebula during a period of a few days. This intriguing observation has been confirmed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). This emission does not show evidence of pulsations with the Crab pulsar. It seems that it originates at the shock region created as a result of the interaction of the pulsar wind with the nebula. We propose that such variable gamma-ray emission originates in the region behind the shock when the electrons can be accelerated as a result of the reconnection of the magnetic field compressed by the decelerating pulsar wind. The natural consequence of such an interpretation is the prediction that the Crab nebula gamma-ray spectrum produced by electrons, as a result of the inverse Compton (IC) scattering of soft radiation to multi-TeV energies, should also show synchronous variability on the time-scales as observed at GeV energies by AGILE and Fermi-LAT. We calculate how the end of the IC component of the Crab nebula gamma-ray spectrum should look during the quiescent and the flare GeV gamma-ray emission. We conclude that the variability of the multi-TeV gamma-ray spectrum from the Crab nebula might, in principle, be responsible for the differences between the spectral features reported by the High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (HEGRA) and High-Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) collaborations at multi-TeV energies.

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页码：2229 / 2234

页数：6

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