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切伦科夫望远镜阵列对负责银河系中心过剩的假定毫秒脉冲星群的灵敏度

Cherenkov Telescope Array sensitivity to the putative millisecond pulsar population responsible for the Galactic center excess

Oscar Macias, Harm van Leijen, Deheng Song, Shin'ichiro Ando, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Roland M. Crocker

摘要:

对$\textit{Fermi}$银河系中心$γ$射线过剩的主要解释是银河系隆起中尚未解决的毫秒双星(MSP)群体的扩展发射。这样的粒子群,连同即时的$γ$射线,也会将大量的电子/正电子($e^\pm$)注入星际介质。这些$e^\pm$可能会将周围的光子逆康普顿(IC)散射成$γ$射线,这些射线落在即将到来的切伦科夫望远镜阵列(CTA)的灵敏度范围内。在这篇文章中,我们检查CTA的检测潜力,这个签名作出现实的估计系统的不确定性在TeV尺度的$γ$射线能量的银河系扩散发射模型。我们预测,在$e^\pm$注入光谱比$E^{-2}$更难的情况下,CTA有可能稳健地发现一个假定的银河系凸起MSP人口的IC签名,足以解释在$\approx 2.9-74.1\%$范围内或更高的$e^\pm$注入效率的GCE,这取决于银河系漫发射组件的错误建模水平。另一方面,对于比$E^{-2.5}$更软的光谱,可靠的CTA检测将需要$\gtrsim 158\%$的非物理大的$e^\pm$注入效率。然而,即使是这种悲观的结论,可以避免在合理的事件,MSP观测和/或建模的不确定性可以减少。我们进一步发现,在检测到IC信号的情况下,CTA可以成功地区分MSP和辐射$e^\pm$的暗物质起源。

英文摘要:

The leading explanation of the $\textit{Fermi}$ Galactic center $γ$-ray excess is the extended emission from a unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the Galactic bulge. Such a population would, along with the prompt $γ$ rays, also inject large quantities of electrons/positrons ($e^\pm$) into the interstellar medium. These $e^\pm$ could potentially inverse-Compton (IC) scatter ambient photons into $γ$ rays that fall within the sensitivity range of the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). In this article, we examine the detection potential of CTA to this signature by making a realistic estimation of the systematic uncertainties on the Galactic diffuse emission model at TeV-scale $γ$-ray energies. We forecast that, in the event that $e^\pm$ injection spectra are harder than $E^{-2}$, CTA has the potential to robustly discover the IC signature of a putative Galactic bulge MSP population sufficient to explain the GCE for $e^\pm$ injection efficiencies in the range $\approx 2.9-74.1\%$, or higher, depending on the level of mismodeling of the Galactic diffuse emission components. On the other hand, for spectra softer than $E^{-2.5}$, a reliable CTA detection would require an unphysically large $e^\pm$ injection efficiency of $\gtrsim 158\%$. However, even this pessimistic conclusion may be avoided in the plausible event that MSP observational and/or modeling uncertainties can be reduced. We further find that, in the event that an IC signal were detected, CTA can successfully discriminate between an MSP and a dark matter origin for the radiating $e^\pm$.

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