Leptonic Origin of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Crab Nebula
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Abstract
We study the nonthermal emission of the Crab nebula in the bands from radio to TeV γ-ray on a simplified time-dependent injection model. In this model, relativistic electrons in the Crab nebula consists of two components and their injected spectrum is a broken power law with different indices and a break energy. The relativistic electrons emit nonthermal photons through synchrotron and inverse Compton scattering off soft photon fields inside the
nebula. The resulting spectrum calculated with the model is well consistent with the observed data ranging from radio to very high energy γ-rays for the Crab nebula, where the emission from radio to medium γ-rays is from electron's synchrotron emission, whereas the emission above ~100MeV primarily comes from the inverse Compton scattering of the relativistic electrons on synchrotron photons.
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ZHANG Li, WEI Bing-Tao, FANG Jun. Leptonic Origin of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Crab Nebula[J]. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2007, 24(10): 3009-3012.
ZHANG Li, WEI Bing-Tao, FANG Jun. Leptonic Origin of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Crab Nebula[J]. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2007, 24(10): 3009-3012.
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ZHANG Li, WEI Bing-Tao, FANG Jun. Leptonic Origin of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Crab Nebula[J]. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2007, 24(10): 3009-3012.
ZHANG Li, WEI Bing-Tao, FANG Jun. Leptonic Origin of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from Crab Nebula[J]. Chin. Phys. Lett., 2007, 24(10): 3009-3012.
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