Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

A source of gamma rays coincident with the shell of the supernova remnant CTB 80

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
 [1];  [1]
  1. Centro de Investigaciones Espaciales and Escuela de Física, Universidad de Costa Rica, 11501-2060 San Jose, Costa Rica
ABSTRACT

CTB 80 (G69.0+2.7) is a relatively old (50–80 kyr) supernova remnant (SNR) with a complex radio morphology showing three extended radio arms and a radio and X-ray nebula near the location of the pulsar PSR B1951+32. We report on a study of the GeV emission in the region of CTB 80 with Fermi-Large Area Telescope data. An extended source with a size of 1.3°, matching the size of the infrared shell associated to the SNR, was discovered. The GeV emission, detected up to an energy of ∼20 GeV, is more significant at the location of the northern radio arm where previous observations imply that the SNR shock is interacting with ambient material. Both hadronic and leptonic scenarios can reproduce the multiwavelength data reasonably well. The hadronic cosmic ray energy density required is considerably larger than the local Galactic value and the gamma-ray leptonic emission is mainly due to bremsstrahlung interactions. We conclude that GeV particles are still trapped or accelerated by the SNR producing the observed high-energy emission when interacting with ambient material.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
1763765
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 502; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

References (33)

A fast pulsar in radio nebula CTB80 journal January 1988
Interaction between high-velocity pulsar in CTB80 and an infrared emission shell journal July 1988
Planck intermediate results : XXXI. Microwave survey of Galactic supernova remnants journal February 2016
The peculiar supernova remnant CTB 80 journal May 2001
A multi-frequency study of the spectral index distribution in the SNR CTB 80 journal August 2005
A catalogue of Galactic supernova remnants from the Canadian Galactic plane survey: I. Flux densities, spectra, and polarization characteristics journal September 2006
A 4.85 GHz sky survey. 3: Epoch 1986 and combined (1986+1987) maps covering 0 deg less than delta less than +75 deg journal May 1994
84 gigahertz observations of five Crab-like supernova remnants journal March 1989
Optical imagery and spectrophotometry of CTB 80 journal May 1989
Detection of an expanding H I shell in the old supernova remnant CTB 80 journal November 1990
Interaction between the Supernova Remnant CTB 80 and the Ambient Interstellar Medium: H i and CO Observations journal November 1993
ROSAT observations of the unusual supernova remnant CTB 80 containing the pulsar PSR 1951 + 32 journal February 1995
The Likelihood Analysis of EGRET Data journal April 1996
EGRET Detection of Pulsed Gamma Radiation from PSR B1951+32 journal July 1995
Proper-Motion Measurements of Pulsar B1951+32 in the Supernova Remnant CTB 80 journal February 2002
New High-Resolution Radio Observations of the Supernova Remnant CTB 80 journal November 2003
Proper Motions of PSRs B1757−24 and B1951+32: Implications for Ages and Associations journal February 2008
FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS PSR J1057–5226, J1709–4429, AND J1952+3252 journal August 2010
A Possible Approach to Three-Dimensional Cosmic-Ray Propagation in the Galaxy. iv. Electrons and Electron-Induced γ-Rays journal December 2010
SEARCH FOR SPATIALLY EXTENDED FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE SOURCES USING TWO YEARS OF DATA journal August 2012
THE FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON ORBIT: EVENT CLASSIFICATION, INSTRUMENT RESPONSE FUNCTIONS, AND CALIBRATION journal October 2012
Optical observations of the morphology and kinematics of the compact core of the peculiar supernova remnant CTB 80 journal April 1989
The AKARI far-infrared all-sky survey maps journal June 2015
Calibration of the AKARI far-infrared all-sky survey maps journal May 2015
A new look at the statistical model identification journal December 1974
Time-dependent particle acceleration in supernova remnants in different environments: Particle acceleration in supernova remnants journal June 2010
Radio observations of CTB80: detection of the snowplough in an old supernova remnant: Radio observations of CTB80 journal April 2012
Fermipy: An open-source Python package for analysis of Fermi-LAT Data conference August 2018
THE FIRST FERMI LAT SUPERNOVA REMNANT CATALOG journal May 2016
Search for Extended Sources in the Galactic Plane Using Six Years of Fermi -Large Area Telescope Pass 8 Data above 10 GeV journal July 2017
Distances of Galactic Supernova Remnants Using Red Clump Stars journal October 2018
Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog journal March 2020
HAWC and Fermi-LAT Detection of Extended Emission from the Unidentified Source 2HWC J2006+341 journal October 2020

Similar Records

A GeV SOURCE IN THE DIRECTION OF SUPERNOVA REMNANT CTB 37B
Journal Article · Tue Jan 19 23:00:00 EST 2016 · Astrophysical Journal · OSTI ID:22521659

X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF THE SUPERNOVA REMNANT CTB 87 (G74.9+1.2): AN EVOLVED PULSAR WIND NEBULA
Journal Article · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Astrophysical Journal · OSTI ID:22133972

Pulsar-like emission from the supernova remnant CTB 80
Journal Article · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987 · Astrophys. J.; (United States) · OSTI ID:5831393

Related Subjects