On a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess around the Galactic Center
| Autor: | Andrei E. Egorov, V. A. Dogiel, Alexei V. Ivlev, D.O. Chernyshov |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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galactic center
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) General Mathematics Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Population Dark matter FOS: Physical sciences Cosmic ray Astrophysics dark matter Millisecond pulsar Computer Science (miscellaneous) QA1-939 education Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) education.field_of_study Molecular cloud Galactic Center Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Galaxy Chemistry (miscellaneous) Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) gamma-ray excess Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Mathematics Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope |
| Zdroj: | Symmetry, Vol 13, Iss 1432, p 1432 (2021) Symmetry Volume 13 Issue 8 |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2108.04104 |
| Popis: | Recent observations of gamma-rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the direction of the inner Galaxy revealed a mysterious GeV excess. Its intensity is significantly above predictions of the standard model of cosmic rays (CRs) generation and propagation with a peak in the spectrum around a few GeV. Popular interpretations of this excess are due to either spherically distributed annihilating dark matter (DM) or abnormal population of millisecond pulsars. We suggested an alternative explanation of the excess through the CR interactions with molecular clouds in the Galactic Center (GC) region. We assumed that the excess could be imitated by the emission of molecular clouds with depleted density of CRs with energies below ~ 10 GeV inside. A novelty of our work is in detailed elaboration of the depletion mechanism of CRs with the mentioned energies through the "barrier" near the cloud edge formed by the self-excited MHD turbulence. Such depletion of CRs inside the clouds may be a reason of deficit of gamma rays from the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) at energies below few GeV. This in turn changes the ratio between various emission components at those energies, and may potentially absorb the GeV excess by simple renormalization of key components. Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure. This is slightly refined version of this paper published in the special issue "Gamma Ray Signals from Dark Matter" of the journal "Symmetry" |
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