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2009ApJ...699L.153Z - Astrophys. J., 699, L153-L156 (2009/July-2)

TeV gamma-ray emission from Vela X: leptonic or hadronic?

ZHANG L. and YANG X.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We study nonthermal photon emission properties from Vela X in both a leptonic and a hadronic-leptonic model. In the leptonic model, it is difficult to reproduce the observed photon spectrum from X-ray to TeV bands using reasonable model parameters; the model results can compare with either the observed data at the TeV band (the total energy of electrons required to match the observations is We~ 6.1x1045 erg) or those at the X-ray band (We~ 1.3x1045 erg). In the hadronic-leptonic model, however, the observed photon spectrum can be reproduced in the hadronic-leptonic model and TeV photons are mainly from π0 decay in proton-proton interaction. The energy required for iron nuclei released in the pulsar wind is WFe ~ 2.1x1048 erg and the energy of iron nuclei transferred to positrons is We+ ~ 8.4x1045 erg in this case.

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Journal keyword(s): gamma rays: theory - ISM: individual: Vela nebula - radiation mechanisms: non-thermal

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