Inefficient acceleration of electrons in the shocked wind of the massive star $\Theta^1$ Ori C within the Trapezium cluster
| Autor: | Bednarek, W. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Shocked winds of massive stars in young stellar clusters have been proposed as possible sites in which relativistic particles are accelerated. Electrons, accelerated in such an environment, are expected to efficiently comptonize optical radiation (from massive stars) and the infra-red radiation (re-scattered by the dust within the cluster) producing GeV-TeV gamma-rays. We investigate the time dependent process of acceleration, propagation and radiation of electrons in the stellar wind of the massive star $\Theta^1$ Ori C within the Trapezium cluster. This cluster is located within the nearby Orion Nebula (M 42). We show that the gamma-ray emission expected from the Trapezium cluster is consistent with the present observations of the Orion Molecular Cloud by the Fermi-LAT telescope provided that the efficiency of energy conversion from the stellar wind to relativistic electrons is very low, i.e. $\chi < 10^{-4}$. For such low efficiencies, the gamma-ray emission from electrons accelerated in the stellar wind of $\Theta^1$ Ori C can be only barely observed by the future Cherenkov telescopes, e.g. the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted to MNRAS |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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