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为GLAST大面积望远镜建立银河系漫发射模型

Developing the Galactic diffuse emission model for the GLAST Large Area Telescope

Igor V. Moskalenko, Andrew W. Strong, Seth W. Digel, Troy A. Porter

摘要:

漫发射是在高能宇宙射线(CR)与星际气体和辐射场的相互作用中产生的,主要是质子和电子,并包含有关银河系遥远区域粒子光谱的信息。它也可能包含有关奇异的过程,如暗物质湮灭,黑洞蒸发等的漫发射模型的信息是重要的源位置和光谱的确定。计算银河系弥散连续伽马射线辐射需要一个CR传播模型作为第一步。该模型以粒子在星际介质中的输运理论为基础,并以天体物理学和粒子与核物理学的各种实验数据为基础。这些数据包括:次级粒子和同位素产生截面、总相互作用核截面和放射性物质的寿命、星系(H_2、H I、H II)中气体质量校准和气体分布、星际辐射场、CR源分布和源处的粒子谱、磁场、能量损失、伽马射线和同步加速器产生机制以及许多其他问题。我们正在不断改进GALPROP模型和代码,以跟上新数据的流动。任何领域的改进都可能影响GLAST LAT仪器用作背景模型的银河系扩散连续伽马射线发射模型。在这里,我们报告的GALPROP和漫发射模型的最新改进。

英文摘要:

Diffuse emission is produced in energetic cosmic ray (CR) interactions, mainly protons and electrons, with the interstellar gas and radiation field and contains the information about particle spectra in distant regions of the Galaxy. It may also contain information about exotic processes such as dark matter annihilation, black hole evaporation etc. A model of the diffuse emission is important for determination of the source positions and spectra. Calculation of the Galactic diffuse continuum gamma-ray emission requires a model for CR propagation as the first step. Such a model is based on theory of particle transport in the interstellar medium as well as on many kinds of data provided by different experiments in Astrophysics and Particle and Nuclear Physics. Such data include: secondary particle and isotopic production cross sections, total interaction nuclear cross sections and lifetimes of radioactive species, gas mass calibrations and gas distribution in the Galaxy (H_2, H I, H II), interstellar radiation field, CR source distribution and particle spectra at the sources, magnetic field, energy losses, gamma-ray and synchrotron production mechanisms, and many other issues. We are continuously improving the GALPROP model and the code to keep up with a flow of new data. Improvement in any field may affect the Galactic diffuse continuum gamma-ray emission model used as a background model by the GLAST LAT instrument. Here we report about the latest improvements of the GALPROP and the diffuse emission model.

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