Artículo
Models for gamma-ray production in low-mass microquasars
Fecha de publicación:
09/2008
Editorial:
World Scientific
Revista:
International Journal of Modern Physics D
ISSN:
0218-2718
e-ISSN:
1793-6594
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
Clasificación temática:
Resumen
Unlike high-mass gamma-ray binaries, low-mass microquasars lack external sources of radiation and matter that could produce high-energy emission through interactions with relativistic particles. In this work we consider the synchrotron emission of protons and leptons that populate the jet of a low-mass microquasar. In our model photohadronic and inverse Compton (IC) interactions with synchrotron photons produced by both protons and leptons result in a high-energy tail of the spectrum. We also estimate the contribution from secondary pairs injected through photopair production. The high-energy emission is dominated by radiation of hadronic origin, so we can call these objects proton microquasars.
Palabras clave:
X Ray Binaries
,
Gamma Rays
,
Nonthermal Radiation Mechanisms
Archivos asociados
Licencia
Identificadores
Colecciones
Articulos(IAR)
Articulos de INST.ARG.DE RADIOASTRONOMIA (I)
Articulos de INST.ARG.DE RADIOASTRONOMIA (I)
Citación
Vila, Gabriela Soledad; Romero, Gustavo Esteban; Models for gamma-ray production in low-mass microquasars
; World Scientific; International Journal of Modern Physics D; 17; 10; 9-2008; 1903-1908
Compartir
Altmétricas