| タイトル | Anatomy of a cosmic-ray neutrino source and the Cygnus X-3 system |
| 著者(英) | Harding, A. K.; Stecker, F. W.; Barnard, J. J. |
| 著者所属(英) | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 1985-08-01 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | The effects of an intense beam of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from a compact object in the Cygnus X-3 binary system hitting the companion star, and of the subsequent production of secondary neutrinos, are examined. A maximum allowable beam luminosity of about 10 to the 42nd erg/s is found for a system containing a 1-10 solar mass main sequence target star. The proton beam must heat a relatively small area of the target star to satisfy observational constraints on the resulting stellar wind. With such a model, the neutrino to gamma-ray flux ratio of about 1000 can result from a combination of gamma-ray absorption and a large neutrino to gamma-ray duty cycle ratio. It is found that the high density of the atmosphere resulting from compression by the beam leads to pion cascading and a neutrino spectrum peaking at 1-10 GeV energies. |
| NASA分類 | ASTROPHYSICS |
| レポートNO | 85A44391 |
| 権利 | Copyright |
| URI | https://repository.exst.jaxa.jp/dspace/handle/a-is/390101 |
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