SEARCHING FOR OVERIONIZED PLASMA IN THE GAMMA-RAY-EMITTING SUPERNOVA REMNANT G349.7+0.2

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2015-05-10

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Ergin, Tülün
Saha, L.
Majumdar, P.
GÖK, FATMA
ERCAN, ENİSE NİHAL

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G349.7+0.2 is a supernova remnant (SNR) expanding in a dense medium of molecular clouds and interacting with clumps of molecular material emitting gamma-rays. We analyzed the gamma-ray data of the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and detected G349.7+0.2 in the energy range of 0.2-300 GeV with a significance of similar to 13 sigma, showing no extended morphology. Modeling of the gamma-ray spectrum revealed that the GeV gamma-ray emission dominantly originates from the decay of neutral pions, where the protons follow a broken power-law distribution with a spectral break at similar to 12 GeV. To search for features of radiative recombination continua in the eastern and western regions of the remnant, we analyzed the Suzaku data of G349.7 +0.2 and found no evidence for overionized plasma. In this paper, we discuss possible scenarios to explain the hadronic gamma-ray emission in G349.7+0.2 and the mixed morphology nature of this SNR.

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Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38661

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

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https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/804/2/124

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T. Ergin, L. Saha, P. Majumdar, F. GÖK, and E. N. ERCAN, “SEARCHING FOR OVERIONIZED PLASMA IN THE GAMMA-RAY-EMITTING SUPERNOVA REMNANT G349.7+0.2,” ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38661.