FERMI LAT discovery of extended gamma-ray emissions in the vicinity of the HB 3 supernova remnant

Katagiri, H.; Yoshida, K.; Ballet, J.; Grondin, M. -H.; Hanabata, Y.; Hewitt, J. W.; Kubo, H.; Lemoine-Goumard, M.

doi:10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/114

Title: FERMI LAT discovery of extended gamma-ray emissions in the vicinity of the HB 3 supernova remnant

Journal Article · Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2016 · The Astrophysical Journal (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/114· OSTI ID:1355676

Katagiri, H. ^[1]; Yoshida, K. ^[1]; Ballet, J. ^[2]; Grondin, M. -H. ^[3]; Hanabata, Y. ^[4]; Hewitt, J. W. ^[5]; Kubo, H. ^[6]; Lemoine-Goumard, M. ^[3]

Ibaraki Univ. (Japan)
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
CNRS/IN2P3. Univ. Bordeaux (France)
Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
Kyoto Univ. (Japan)

We report the discovery of extended gamma-ray emission measured by the Large Area Tele- scope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in the region of the supernova rem- nant (SNR) HB 3 (G132.7+1.3) and the W3 HII complex adjacent to the southeast of the remnant. W3 is spatially associated with bright ¹²CO (J=1-0) emission. The gamma-ray emission is spatially correlated with this gas and the SNR. We discuss the possibility that gamma rays originate in inter- actions between particles accelerated in the SNR and interstellar gas or radiation fields. The decay of neutral pions produced in nucleon-nucleon interactions between accelerated hadrons and interstellar gas provides a reasonable explanation for the gamma-ray emission. The emission fromW3 is consistent with irradiation of the CO clouds by the cosmic rays accelerated in HB 3.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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OSTI ID:: 1355676

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal (Online), Vol. 818, Issue 2; ISSN 1538-4357

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