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球状星团的VERITAS观测

VERITAS Observations of Globular Clusters

Michael McCutcheon

摘要:

人们假设球状星团可能是由毫秒级的伽马射线提供能量的甚高能伽马射线源。这可能是由于累积的直接排放或碰撞风驱动的plerion型排放。特别是南半球的球状星团47 Tuc在这两个模型中都被挑出来作为一个潜在的来源。最近费米伽玛射线空间望远镜(FGST)首次探测到球状星团47 Tuc是一个伽玛射线源,本文介绍VERITAS对北半球球状星团的观测结果。观测到三个球状星团:M15、M13和M5。其中,M15和M13已被明确提出为VHE伽马射线源,M5与它们具有相似性。

英文摘要:

It has been postulated that globular clusters could be sources of Very-High Energy (VHE) gamma rays, powered by milli-second pulsars. This could be due to cumulative direct emission or to plerion-type emission driven by colliding winds. In particular the southern hemisphere globular cluster 47 Tuc has been singled out as a potential source in both models. In light of the recent detection by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) of 47 Tuc, the first detection of any globular cluster as a gamma-ray source, we present the results of observations of northern hemisphere globular clusters by VERITAS. Three globular clusters have been observed: M15, M13 and M5. Of these, M15 and M13 have been explicitly proposed as VHE gamma-ray sources and M5 possess similarities with them.

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