TY - GEN
T1 - Discovery of diffuse TeV gamma ray emission from the galactic plane using Milagro detector
AU - Fleysher, Roman
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Milagro is a water Cherenkov extensive air shower array that continuously views the entire overhead sky and is sensitive to gamma rays with energies near 1 TeV. Prior to this work, EGRET had observed the highest energy gamma rays from the Galactic plane. In the direction of the inner Galaxy and at energies between 1 GeV and 30 GeV, EGRET measured a gamma-ray spectral index of approximately αγ = 2.4, harder than the cosmic-ray spectrum. The shape and intensity of the spectrum beyond EGRET energies is sensitive to the production and propagation of cosmic rays. Here we report the detection of the TeV gamma rays from the region of the Milagro inner Galaxy (±5° Galactic latitude and (40°, 100°) Galactic longitude) with a significance of 5σ. The integral flux is estimated to be Φγ(E > 1TeV) = (5.7 ± 2.0)·10 -10 (ster-1cm-2sec-1) assuming a differential power law spectral index of 2.7 and an EGRET-like source distribution. Comparison with EGRET's data from the same part of the Galaxy may be used to constrain models of cosmic-ray production in the Galaxy.
AB - Milagro is a water Cherenkov extensive air shower array that continuously views the entire overhead sky and is sensitive to gamma rays with energies near 1 TeV. Prior to this work, EGRET had observed the highest energy gamma rays from the Galactic plane. In the direction of the inner Galaxy and at energies between 1 GeV and 30 GeV, EGRET measured a gamma-ray spectral index of approximately αγ = 2.4, harder than the cosmic-ray spectrum. The shape and intensity of the spectrum beyond EGRET energies is sensitive to the production and propagation of cosmic rays. Here we report the detection of the TeV gamma rays from the region of the Milagro inner Galaxy (±5° Galactic latitude and (40°, 100°) Galactic longitude) with a significance of 5σ. The integral flux is estimated to be Φγ(E > 1TeV) = (5.7 ± 2.0)·10 -10 (ster-1cm-2sec-1) assuming a differential power law spectral index of 2.7 and an EGRET-like source distribution. Comparison with EGRET's data from the same part of the Galaxy may be used to constrain models of cosmic-ray production in the Galaxy.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.1878415
DO - 10.1063/1.1878415
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751678424
SN - 0735402957
SN - 9780735402959
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 269
EP - 274
BT - High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy - 2nd International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
T2 - International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Y2 - 26 July 2004 through 30 July 2004
ER -