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用MAGIC对Cas A的深空观测表明它不是PeVatron

Deep observations of Cas A with MAGIC indicate it is no PeVatron

D. Guberman, J. Cortina, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, D. Galindo, A. Moralejo

摘要:

人们普遍认为,银河系宇宙射线(CR)在超新星遗迹(SNRs)中通过扩散激波加速过程被加速。在这种情况下,粒子应该被加速到大约1 PeV的能量(所谓的膝盖)并发射伽马射线。为了验证这一假设,需要精确测量TeV能量下年轻SNR的伽马射线谱。在已知的信噪比中,Cassiopea A(Cas A)似乎是此类研究的最佳候选者之一,因为它相对年轻(约300年),并且主要在无线电和X射线波段进行研究,这限制了测试发射模型的基本参数。在这里,我们介绍了2014年12月至2016年10月期间MAGIC成像大气切伦科夫望远镜对Cas A观测的多年活动的结果,总共获得了158小时的高质量数据。我们获得了从$\sim$ 100 GeV到$\sim$ 10 TeV的源的光谱,并假设它遵循幂律分布,有和没有指数截止。我们发现,第一次在非常高的能量制度(VHE,$\gtrsim$ 50 GeV),目前的截止在Cas A的观测证据:指数截止在约3.5 TeV是首选与4.6 $σ$的意义超过一个纯粹的幂律的情况。假设TeV的伽马射线是由强子过程产生的,并且没有明显的宇宙射线扩散,这表明Cas A在目前的年龄不是PeV加速器。

英文摘要:

It is widely believed that Galactic Cosmic Rays (CR) are accelerated in Supernova Remnants (SNRs) through the process of diffusive shock acceleration. In this scenario, particles should be accelerated up to energies around 1 PeV (the so-called knee) and emit gamma rays. To test this hypothesis precise measurements of the gamma-ray spectra of young SNRs at TeV energies are needed. Among the already known SNRs, Cassiopea A (Cas A) appears as one of the best candidates for such studies, because it is relatively young (about 300 years) and it has been largely studied in radio and X-ray bands, which constrains essential parameters for testing emission models. Here we present the results of a multi-year campaign of Cas A observations with the MAGIC Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes between December 2014 and October 2016, for a total of 158 hours of good-quality data. We obtained a spectrum of the source from $\sim$100GeV to $\sim$10TeV and fit it assuming it follows a power-law distribution, with and without exponential cut-off. We found, for the first time in the Very High Energy regime (VHE, $\gtrsim$50GeV), observational evidence for the present of a cut-off in Cas A: an exponential cut-off at about 3.5 TeV is preferred with 4.6 $σ$ significance over a pure power-law scenario. Assuming that TeV gamma rays are produced by hadronic processes and that there is no significant cosmic ray diffusion, this indicates that Cas A is not a PeVatron (PeV accelerator) at its present age.

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