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Title: FERMI LAT and WMAP observations of the supernova remnant HB 21

Journal Article · · The Astrophysical Journal
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [4];  [6];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9]
  1. Univ. di Padova, Padova (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova (Italy)
  2. Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  3. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States). SLAC National Accelerator Lab.
  4. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  5. CEA-IRFU/CNRS/Univ. Paris Diderot, Gif sur Yvette (France)
  6. Univ. e del Politecnico di Bari, Bari (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bari (Italy)
  7. Univ. of Manchester, Manchester (United Kingdom)
  8. Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik (Iceland)
  9. Univ. Bordeaux, Gradignan Cedex (France)

Here, we present the analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope γ-ray observations of HB 21 (G89.0+4.7). We detect significant γ-ray emission associated with the remnant: the flux >100 MeV is 9.4 ± 0.8 (stat) ± 1.6 (syst) × 10–11 erg cm–2 s–1. HB 21 is well modeled by a uniform disk centered at l = 88fdg75 ± 0fdg04, b = +4fdg65 ± 0fdg06 with a radius of 1fdg19 ± 0fdg06. The γ-ray spectrum shows clear evidence of curvature, suggesting a cutoff or break in the underlying particle population at an energy of a few GeV. We complement γ-ray observations with the analysis of the WMAP 7 yr data from 23 to 93 GHz, achieving the first detection of HB 21 at these frequencies. In combination with archival radio data, the radio spectrum shows a spectral break, which helps to constrain the relativistic electron spectrum, and, in turn, parameters of simple non-thermal radiation models. In one-zone models multiwavelength data favor the origin of γ rays from nucleon-nucleon collisions. A single population of electrons cannot produce both γ rays through bremsstrahlung and radio emission through synchrotron radiation. A predominantly inverse-Compton origin of the γ-ray emission is disfavored because it requires lower interstellar densities than are inferred for HB 21. In the hadronic-dominated scenarios, accelerated nuclei contribute a total energy of ~3 × 1049 erg, while, in a two-zone bremsstrahlung-dominated scenario, the total energy in accelerated particles is ~1 × 1049 erg.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1356546
Journal Information:
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 779, Issue 2; ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 22 works
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