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2023MNRAS.526..193G - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 526, 193-197 (2023/November-3)

Analysis of γ-ray emission above 30 GeV from the LMC pulsar wind nebula N 157B with Fermi-LAT.

GONG Y., XIAO Y., ZHOU L., TIAN S. and FANG J.

Abstract (from CDS):

N 157B located in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the first pulsar wind nebula detected outside of the Galaxy in γ-rays. In this paper, we analyse the emission above 30 GeV from N 157B using ∼14.3 yr of Fermi-LAT data. The γ-ray spectrum between 30 and 500 GeV is well described by a single power-law function with a photon index of 1.83 ± 0.26, and its integral photon flux is (4.10 ± 0.83) × 10–11 photons cm–2 s–1. We adopt a one-zone leptonic model to investigate whether the multiband non-thermal emission of the target source can be generated by synchrotron radiation and inverse-Compton scattering of the electrons/positrons. Assuming the electrons/positrons in the nebula have a broken power-law spectrum with two breaks, the model can reproduce the observed fluxes in the radio, X-ray, and γ-ray bands. This result indicates that the γ-ray emission from N 157B can be explained by the leptonic process of electrons/positrons via inverse-Compton scattering.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): radiation mechanisms: non-thermal - ISM: general - gamma-rays: ISM

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