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对未确认高能源起源的光度约束

A luminosity constraint on the origin of unidentified high energy sources

J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, V. Pavlidou, A. V. Olinto, C. Brown, B. D. Fields

摘要:

点源的识别对高能界提出了巨大的挑战。我们提出了一种新的方法来评估一组源的可能性是一个银河系人口的基础上简单的假设,即银河系类似的主机可比人口的伽马射线发射器。我们提出了一个亮度约束银河系源人口补充现有的方法,通过约束的丰度和空间分布的任何对象的银河系起源,而不是专注于一个特定的候选发射器的属性。我们使用M31作为银河系的代理,并通过将其应用于身份不明的EGRET源来演示这种技术。我们发现,大多数身份不明的EGRET源是星系晕群体的成员(例如,暗物质暗晕),但目前的观测并没有提供任何限制,所有这些来源是银河系物体,如果他们完全居住在磁盘和凸起。将这种方法应用到费米伽马射线太空望远镜即将进行的观测中,有可能排除更大数量的不明来源与任何银河系源类的关联。

英文摘要:

The identification of point sources poses a great challenge for the high energy community. We present a new approach to evaluate the likelihood of a set of sources being a Galactic population based on the simple assumption that galaxies similar to the Milky Way host comparable populations of gamma-ray emitters. We propose a luminosity constraint on Galactic source populations which complements existing approaches by constraining the abundance and spatial distribution of any objects of Galactic origin, rather than focusing on the properties of a specific candidate emitter. We use M31 as a proxy for the Milky Way, and demonstrate this technique by applying it to the unidentified EGRET sources. We find that it is highly improbable that the majority of the unidentified EGRET sources are members of a Galactic halo population (e.g., dark matter subhalos), but that current observations do not provide any constraints on all of these sources being Galactic objects if they reside entirely in the disk and bulge. Applying this method to upcoming observations by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has the potential to exclude association of an even larger number of unidentified sources with any Galactic source class.

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