Observations of cosmic gamma ray sources and their contribution to the diffuse gamma ray background

Miscellaneous · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:6224128

Bhattacharya, D

The objective is to study soft gamma ray emission in the 0.1 to 10 MeV energy band for selected active galactic nuclei and explore how much they contribute to the total diffuse gamma ray background. A series of imaging observations of extragalactic objects in the low energy gamma-ray region were carried out by the Coded Aperture Directional Gamma-ray Telescope (DGT). The DGT was successfully flown at stratospheric balloon altitudes, and observations were made of the Crab, NGC 1275, MKN 421, and NGC 4151. The measured Crab spectrum is consistent with a featureless power-law of the form. Significant emission was detected up to 500 keV from the Seyfert galaxy, NGC 4151. To increase the total sky exposure the extragalactic field images were analyzed, including the 3C 273 region, obtained by the DGT.

• Research Organization: New Hampshire Univ., Durham, NH (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6224128
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Ph.D. Thesis
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES
BACKGROUND RADIATION
GALAXY NUCLEI
SPECTRA
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
SEYFERT GALAXIES
COSMIC RAY SOURCES
DATA
GALAXIES
INFORMATION
NUMERICAL DATA
RADIATIONS
640101* - Astrophysics & Cosmology- Cosmic Radiation