2017Sci...358..911A

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2017Sci...358..911A - Science, 358, 911-914 (2017)

Extended gamma-ray sources around pulsars constrain the origin of the positron flux at Earth.

ABEYSEKARA A.U., ALBERT A., ALFARO R., ALVAREZ C., ALVAREZ J.D., ARCEO R., ARTEAGA-VELAZQUEZ J.C., AVILA ROJAS D., AYALA SOLARES H.A., BARBER A.S., BAUTISTA-ELIVAR N., BECERRIL A., BELMONT-MORENO E., BENZVI S.Y., BERLEY D., BERNAL A., BRAUN J., BRISBOIS C., CABALLERO-MORA K.S., CAPISTRAN T., CARRAMINANA A., CASANOVA S., CASTILLO M., COTTI U., COTZOMI J., COUTINO DE LEON S., DE LEON C., DE LA FUENTE E., DINGUS B.L., DUVERNOIS M.A., DIAZ-VELEZ J.C., ELLSWORTH R.W., ENGEL K., ENRIQUEZ-RIVERA O., FIORINO D.W., FRAIJA N., GARCIA-GONZALEZ J.A., GARFIAS F., GERHARDT M., GONZALEZ MUNOZ A., GONZALEZ M.M., GOODMAN J.A., HAMPEL-ARIAS Z., HARDING J.P., HERNANDEZ S., HERNANDEZ-ALMADA A., HINTON J., HONA B., HUI C.M., HUNTEMEYER P., IRIARTE A., JARDIN-BLICQ A., JOSHI V., KAUFMANN S., KIEDA D., LARA A., LAUER R.J., LEE W.H., LENNARZ D., LEON VARGAS H., LINNEMANN J.T., LONGINOTTI A.L., LUIS RAYA G., LUNA-GARCIA R., LOPEZ-COTO R., MALONE K., MARINELLI S.S., MARTINEZ O., MARTINEZ-CASTELLANOS I., MARTINEZ-CASTRO J., MARTINEZ-HUERTA H., MATTHEWS J.A., MIRANDA-ROMAGNOLI P., MORENO E., MOSTAFA M., NELLEN L., NEWBOLD M., NISA M.U., NORIEGA-PAPAQUI R., PELAYO R., PRETZ J., PEREZ-PEREZ E.G., REN Z., RHO C.D., RIVIERE C., ROSA-GONZALEZ D., ROSENBERG M., RUIZ-VELASCO E., SALAZAR H., SALESA GREUS F., SANDOVAL A., SCHNEIDER M., SCHOORLEMMER H., SINNIS G., SMITH A.J., SPRINGER R.W., SURAJBALI P., TABOADA I., TIBOLLA O., TOLLEFSON K., TORRES I., UKWATTA T.N., VIANELLO G., WEISGARBER T., WESTERHOFF S., WISHER I.G., WOOD J., YAPICI T., YODH G., YOUNK P.W., ZEPEDA A., ZHOU H., GUO F., HAHN J., LI H. and ZHANG H.

Abstract (from CDS):

The unexpectedly high flux of cosmic-ray positrons detected at Earth may originate from nearby astrophysical sources, dark matter, or unknown processes of cosmic-ray secondary production. We report the detection, using the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), of extended tera-electron volt gamma-ray emission coincident with the locations of two nearby middle-aged pulsars (Geminga and PSR B0656+14). The HAWC observations demonstrate that these pulsars are indeed local sources of accelerated leptons, but the measured tera-electron volt emission profile constrains the diffusion of particles away from these sources to be much slower than previously assumed. We demonstrate that the leptons emitted by these objects are therefore unlikely to be the origin of the excess positrons, which may have a more exotic origin.

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Number of rows : 2
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 PSR J0633+1746 Psr 06 33 54.153 +17 46 12.91           ~ 1308 0
2 PSR B0656+14 Psr 06 59 48.18800 +14 14 19.2000   24.85 24.90     ~ 943 1

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