دورية أكاديمية
Discovery of powerful gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula.
| العنوان: | Discovery of powerful gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula. |
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| المؤلفون: | Tavani M; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (INAF-IASF) Roma, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy. pi.agile@iasf-roma.inaf.it, Bulgarelli A, Vittorini V, Pellizzoni A, Striani E, Caraveo P, Weisskopf MC, Tennant A, Pucella G, Trois A, Costa E, Evangelista Y, Pittori C, Verrecchia F, Del Monte E, Campana R, Pilia M, De Luca A, Donnarumma I, Horns D, Ferrigno C, Heinke CO, Trifoglio M, Gianotti F, Vercellone S, Argan A, Barbiellini G, Cattaneo PW, Chen AW, Contessi T, D'Ammando F, DePris G, Di Cocco G, Di Persio G, Feroci M, Ferrari A, Galli M, Giuliani A, Giusti M, Labanti C, Lapshov I, Lazzarotto F, Lipari P, Longo F, Fuschino F, Marisaldi M, Mereghetti S, Morelli E, Moretti E, Morselli A, Pacciani L, Perotti F, Piano G, Picozza P, Prest M, Rapisarda M, Rappoldi A, Rubini A, Sabatini S, Soffitta P, Vallazza E, Zambra A, Zanello D, Lucarelli F, Santolamazza P, Giommi P, Salotti L, Bignami GF |
| المصدر: | Science (New York, N.Y.) [Science] 2011 Feb 11; Vol. 331 (6018), pp. 736-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Jan 06. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 0404511 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1095-9203 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00368075 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Science Subsets: PubMed not MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: Original Publication: New York, N.Y. : [s.n.] 1880- |
| مستخلص: | The well-known Crab Nebula is at the center of the SN1054 supernova remnant. It consists of a rotationally powered pulsar interacting with a surrounding nebula through a relativistic particle wind. The emissions originating from the pulsar and nebula have been considered to be essentially stable. Here, we report the detection of strong gamma-ray (100 mega-electron volts to 10 giga-electron volts) flares observed by the AGILE satellite in September 2010 and October 2007. In both cases, the total gamma-ray flux increased by a factor of three compared with the non-flaring flux. The flare luminosity and short time scale favor an origin near the pulsar, and we discuss Chandra Observatory x-ray and Hubble Space Telescope optical follow-up observations of the nebula. Our observations challenge standard models of nebular emission and require power-law acceleration by shock-driven plasma wave turbulence within an approximately 1-day time scale. |
| التعليقات: | Comment in: Science. 2011 Feb 11;331(6018):686-7. (PMID: 21212319) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20110108 Date Completed: 20110302 Latest Revision: 20110211 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20231215 |
| DOI: | 10.1126/science.1200083 |
| PMID: | 21212318 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1095-9203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1126/science.1200083 |