Publication Date:
2010-01-02
Description:
Pulsars are known to power winds of relativistic particles that can produce bright nebulae by interacting with the surrounding medium. These pulsar wind nebulae are observed by their radio, optical, and x-ray emissions, and in some cases also at TeV (teraelectron volt) energies, but the lack of information in the gamma-ray band precludes drawing a comprehensive multiwavelength picture of their phenomenology and emission mechanisms. Using data from the AGILE satellite, we detected the Vela pulsar wind nebula in the energy range from 100 MeV to 3 GeV. This result constrains the particle population responsible for the GeV emission and establishes a class of gamma-ray emitters that could account for a fraction of the unidentified galactic gamma-ray sources.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pellizzoni, A -- Trois, A -- Tavani, M -- Pilia, M -- Giuliani, A -- Pucella, G -- Esposito, P -- Sabatini, S -- Piano, G -- Argan, A -- Barbiellini, G -- Bulgarelli, A -- Burgay, M -- Caraveo, P -- Cattaneo, P W -- Chen, A W -- Cocco, V -- Contessi, T -- Costa, E -- D'Ammando, F -- Del Monte, E -- De Paris, G -- Di Cocco, G -- Di Persio, G -- Donnarumma, I -- Evangelista, Y -- Feroci, M -- Ferrari, A -- Fiorini, M -- Fuschino, F -- Galli, M -- Gianotti, F -- Hotan, A -- Labanti, C -- Lapshov, I -- Lazzarotto, F -- Lipari, P -- Longo, F -- Marisaldi, M -- Mastropietro, M -- Mereghetti, S -- Moretti, E -- Morselli, A -- Pacciani, L -- Palfreyman, J -- Perotti, F -- Picozza, P -- Pittori, C -- Possenti, A -- Prest, M -- Rapisarda, M -- Rappoldi, A -- Rossi, E -- Rubini, A -- Santolamazza, P -- Scalise, E -- Soffitta, P -- Striani, E -- Trifoglio, M -- Vallazza, E -- Vercellone, S -- Verrecchia, F -- Vittorini, V -- Zambra, A -- Zanello, D -- Giommi, P -- Colafrancesco, S -- Antonelli, A -- Salotti, L -- D'Amico, N -- Bignami, G F -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Feb 5;327(5966):663-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1183844. Epub 2009 Dec 31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, loc. Poggio dei Pini, strada 54, I-09012, Capoterra (CA), Italy. apellizz@ca.astro.it〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20044540" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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