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银河系星际伽马射线辐射离散成分的改进建模及其对Fermi-LAT银心超出信号的启示

Improved Modeling of the Discrete Component of the Galactic Interstellar Gamma-ray Emission and Implications for the Fermi-LAT Galactic Center Excess

Christopher M. Karwin, Alex Broughton, Simona Murgia, Alexander Shmakov, Mohammadamin Tavakoli, Pierre Baldi

AI总结:

本文通过改进H2代理模型来更准确地建模银道面伽马射线离散辐射,发现其显著贡献于Fermi-LAT数据并与已知源关联,为区分银心超出信号的点状或平滑起源提供了新方法。

摘要:

本项工作的目标是改进与H2星际气体相关的伽马射线离散或小尺度结构模型。可靠地识别这一贡献对于将伽马射线点源与星际气体区分开来,以及更好地刻画延展伽马射线信号至关重要。值得注意的是,Fermi-LAT银心(GC)超出信号的起源仍不清楚,它可能是平滑的,也可能是点状的。如果数据中包含未被充分建模的点状贡献,那么平滑的银心超出信号可能会被错误地判定为点状。我们通过更适合追踪这些特征的H2代理,改进了沿银道面一个50°×1°区域内与H2相关的伽马射线离散辐射模型。我们发现这些离散结构很可能对该区域的Fermi-LAT伽马射线数据有显著贡献,其中最亮的结构很可能与已探测到的Fermi-LAT源相关联,这是对该方法的有力验证。我们讨论了将这一方法扩展到天空其他区域的前景,以及对银心超出信号刻画的影响。

英文摘要:

The aim of this work is to improve models for the gamma-ray discrete or small-scale structure related to H2 interstellar gas. Reliably identifying this contribution is important to disentangle gamma-ray point sources from interstellar gas, and to better characterize extended gamma-ray signals. Notably, the Fermi-LAT Galactic center (GC) excess, whose origin remains unclear, might be smooth or point-like. If the data contain a point-like contribution that is not adequately modeled, a smooth GC excess might be erroneously deemed to be point-like. We improve models for the H2-related gamma-ray discrete emission for a $50^\circ \times 1^\circ$ region along the Galactic plane via H2 proxies better suited to trace these features. We find that these are likely to contribute significantly to the gamma-ray Fermi-LAT data in this region, and the brightest ones are likely associated with detected Fermi-LAT sources, a compelling validation of this methodology. We discuss prospects to extend this methodology to other regions of the sky and implications for the characterization of the GC excess.

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