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Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946

  • F. Acero
  • , R. Aloisio
  • , J. Amans
  • , E. Amato
  • , L. A. Antonelli
  • , C. Aramo
  • , T. Armstrong
  • , F. Arqueros
  • , K. Asano
  • , M. Ashley
  • , M. Backes
  • , C. Balazs
  • , A. Balzer
  • , A. Bamba
  • , M. Barkov
  • , J. A. Barrio
  • , W. Benbow
  • , K. Bernlöhr
  • , V. Beshley
  • , C. Bigongiari
  • A. Biland, A. Bilinsky, E. Bissaldi, J. Biteau, O. Blanch, P. Blasi, J. Blazek, C. Boisson, G. Bonanno, A. Bonardi, C. Bonavolontà, G. Bonnoli, C. Braiding, S. Brau-Nogué, J. Bregeon, A. M. Brown, V. Bugaev, A. Bulgarelli, T. Bulik, M. Burton, A. Burtovoi, G. Busetto, M. Böttcher, R. Cameron, M. Capalbi, A. Caproni, P. Caraveo, R. Carosi, E. Cascone, M. Cerruti, S. Chaty, A. Chen, X. Chen, M. Chernyakova, M. Chikawa, J. Chudoba, J. Cohen-Tanugi, S. Colafrancesco, V. Conforti, J. L. Contreras, A. Costa, G. Cotter, S. Covino, G. Covone, P. Cumani, G. Cusumano, F. D'Ammando, D. D'Urso, M. Daniel, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, G. De Cesare, A. De Franco, F. De Frondat, E. M. De Gouveia Dal Pino, C. De Lisio, R. De Los Reyes Lopez, B. De Lotto, M. De Naurois, F. De Palma, M. Del Santo, C. Delgado, D. Della Volpe, T. Di Girolamo, C. Di Giulio, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, M. Doro, J. Dournaux, D. Dumas, V. Dwarkadas, C. Díaz, J. Ebr, K. Egberts, S. Einecke, D. Elsässer, S. Eschbach, D. Falceta-Goncalves, G. Fasola, E. Fedorova, A. Fernández-Barral, G. Ferrand, M. Fesquet, E. Fiandrini, A. Fiasson, M. D. Filipovíc, V. Fioretti, L. Font, G. Fontaine, F. J. Franco, L. Freixas Coromina, Y. Fujita, Y. Fukui, S. Funk, A. Förster, A. Gadola, R. Garcia López, M. Garczarczyk, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, A. Giuliani, J. Glicenstein, R. Gnatyk, P. Goldoni, T. Grabarczyk, R. Graciani, J. Graham, P. Grandi, J. Granot, A. J. Green, S. Griffiths, S. Gunji, H. Hakobyan, S. Hara, T. Hassan, M. Hayashida, M. Heller, J. C. Helo, J. Hinton, B. Hnatyk, J. Huet, M. Huetten, T. B. Humensky, M. Hussein, J. Hörandel, Y. Ikeno, T. Inada, Y. Inome, S. Inoue, T. Inoue, Y. Inoue, K. Ioka, M. Iori, J. Jacquemier, P. Janecek, D. Jankowsky, I. Jung, P. Kaaret, H. Katagiri, S. Kimeswenger, S. Kimura, J. Knödlseder, B. Koch, J. Kocot, K. Kohri, N. Komin, Y. Konno, K. Kosack, S. Koyama, M. Kraus, H. Kubo, G. Kukec Mezek, J. Kushida, N. La Palombara, K. Lalik, G. Lamanna, H. Landt, J. Lapington, P. Laporte, S. Lee, J. Lees, J. Lefaucheur, J. P. Lenain, G. Leto, E. Lindfors, T. Lohse, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. Lopez, F. Lucarelli, P. L. Luque-Escamilla, R. López-Coto, M. C. Maccarone, G. Maier, G. Malaguti, D. Mandat, G. Maneva, S. Mangano, A. Marcowith, J. Martí, M. Martínez, G. Martínez, S. Masuda, G. Maurin, N. Maxted, C. Melioli, T. Mineo, N. Mirabal, T. Mizuno, R. Moderski, M. Mohammed, T. Montaruli, A. Moralejo, K. Mori, G. Morlino, A. Morselli, E. Moulin, R. Mukherjee, C. Mundell, H. Muraishi, K. Murase, S. Nagataki, T. Nagayoshi, T. Naito, D. Nakajima, T. Nakamori, R. Nemmen, J. Niemiec, D. Nieto, M. Nievas-Rosillo, M. Nikołajuk, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, L. Nogues, D. Nosek, B. Novosyadlyj, S. Nozaki, Y. Ohira, M. Ohishi, S. Ohm, A. Okumura, R. A. Ong, R. Orito, A. Orlati, M. Ostrowski, I. Oya, M. Padovani, J. Palacio, M. Palatka, J. M. Paredes, S. Pavy, A. Pe'Er, M. Persic, P. Petrucci, O. Petruk, A. Pisarski, M. Pohl, A. Porcelli, E. Prandini, J. Prast, G. Principe, M. Prouza, E. Pueschel, G. Pühlhofer, A. Quirrenbach, M. Rameez, O. Reimer, M. Renaud, M. Ribó, J. Rico, V. Rizi, J. Rodriguez, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, J. J.Rodríguez Vázquez, P. Romano, G. Romeo, J. Rosado, J. Rousselle, G. Rowell, B. Rudak, I. Sadeh, S. Safi-Harb, T. Saito, N. Sakaki, D. Sanchez, P. Sangiorgi, H. Sano, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, M. Sawada, E. J. Schioppa, H. Schoorlemmer, P. Schovanek, F. Schussler, O. Sergijenko, M. Servillat, A. Shalchi, R. C. Shellard, H. Siejkowski, A. Sillanpä, D. Simone, V. Sliusar, H. Sol, S. Stanič, R. Starling, Stawarz, S. Stefanik, M. Stephan, T. Stolarczyk, M. Szanecki, T. Szepieniec, G. Tagliaferri, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, J. Takeda, M. Tanaka, S. Tanaka, L. A. Tejedor, I. Telezhinsky, P. Temnikov, Y. Terada, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, V. Testa, S. Thoudam, F. Tokanai, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, G. Tosti, C. Townsley, P. Travnicek, C. Trichard, M. Trifoglio, S. Tsujimoto, V. Vagelli, P. Vallania, L. Valore, W. Van Driel, C. Van Eldik, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vassiliev, M. Vecchi, S. Vercellone, S. Vergani, C. Vigorito, S. Vorobiov, M. Vrastil, M. L.Vázquez Acosta, S. J. Wagner, R. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, R. Walter, J. E. Ward, J. J. Watson, A. Weinstein, M. White, R. White, A. Wierzcholska, P. Wilcox, D. A. Williams, R. Wischnewski, P. Wojcik, T. Yamamoto, H. Yamamoto, R. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, L. Yang, T. Yoshida, M. Yoshida, S. Yoshiike, T. Yoshikoshi, M. Zacharias, L. Zampieri, R. Zanin, M. Zavrtanik, D. Zavrtanik, A. Zdziarski, A. Zech, H. Zechlin, V. Zhdanov, A. Ziegler, J. Zorn
  • CEA Saclay
  • Osservatorio Astrofisico Di Arcetri
  • Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche
  • Observatoire de Paris
  • Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
  • Sezione di Napoli
  • Durham University
  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • University of Tokyo
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Namibia
  • Monash University
  • University of Amsterdam
  • Research Center for the Early Universe
  • Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • MPI für Kernphysik
  • Institute for Applied Problems in Mechanics and Mathematics(IAPMM)
  • INAF-IAPS
  • ETH Zurich
  • The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
  • Politecnico of Bari
  • Université Paris 11
  • Campus UAB
  • Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
  • INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania
  • Radboud University Nijmegen
  • INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
  • Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP)
  • Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Bologna
  • University of Warsaw
  • INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
  • University of Padova
  • North-West University
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF)
  • Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul
  • Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica
  • INFN Sezione di Pisa
  • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
  • Dublin City University
  • Kinki University
  • University of Oxford
  • INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia
  • INFN Sezione di Perugia
  • Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory
  • University of São Paulo
  • University of Udine and INFN Sezione di Trieste
  • Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
  • INFN/Sezione Baril
  • CIEMAT
  • University of Geneva
  • Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata
  • Sezione di Torino
  • Università degli Studi di Bari
  • University of Chicago
  • Nutrition Science, University of Potsdam
  • TU Dortmund University
  • Universität Würzburg
  • Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • 91191
  • Campus Scientifique
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Osaka University
  • Nagoya University
  • University of Zurich
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay
  • Université de Paris
  • UMM
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • Open University of Israel
  • University of Sydney
  • Yamagata University
  • Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria
  • Yamanashi-Gakuin University
  • Columbia University
  • University of Manitoba
  • Tokai University
  • Konan University
  • National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • INFN
  • University of Iowa
  • Ibaraki University
  • Universidad Católica del Norte
  • KEK
  • Kyoto University
  • University of Nova Gorica
  • Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN
  • University of Leicester
  • Univ. Paris-Diderot
  • University of Turku
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Trieste
  • Universidad de Jaén
  • Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  • Hiroshima University
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Landessternwarte Heidelberg
  • University of Miyazaki
  • University of Bath
  • Kitasato University
  • Saitama University
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
  • University of Białystok
  • Charles University
  • Aoyama Gakuin University
  • UCLA
  • Tokushima University
  • Jagiellonian University
  • INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste
  • Université Joseph Fourier
  • University of Geneva
  • University College Dublin
  • University of Tuebingen
  • Leopold-Franzens-Universität
  • University of Adelaide
  • Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas
  • University of Łódź
  • CPPM
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Stockholm University
  • Iowa State University
  • Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

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Abstract

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX J1713.7-3946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovered in very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. Special attention is paid to exploring possible spatial (anti)correlations of gamma rays with emission at other wavelengths, in particular X-rays and CO/H i emission. We present a series of simulated images of RX J1713.7-3946 for CTA based on a set of observationally motivated models for the gamma-ray emission. In these models, VHE gamma rays produced by high-energy electrons are assumed to trace the nonthermal X-ray emission observed by XMM-Newton, whereas those originating from relativistic protons delineate the local gas distributions. The local atomic and molecular gas distributions are deduced by the NANTEN team from CO and H i observations. Our primary goal is to show how one can distinguish the emission mechanism(s) of the gamma rays (i.e., hadronic versus leptonic, or a mixture of the two) through information provided by their spatial distribution, spectra, and time variation. This work is the first attempt to quantitatively evaluate the capabilities of CTA to achieve various proposed scientific goals by observing this important cosmic particle accelerator.

Original languageBritish English
Article number74
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume840
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 May 2017

Keywords

  • cosmic rays
  • gamma rays: ISM
  • ISM: individual objects (RX J1713.7-3946, G347.3-0.5)

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