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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Cangaroo-III search for TeV gamma rays from two clusters of galaxies |
Author: | Clay, R. Stamatescu, V. Swaby, D. Thornton, G. Kiuchi, R. Mori, M. Bicknell, G. Edwards, P. Enomoto, R. Gunji, S. Hara, S. Hara, T. Hattori, T. Hayashi, S. Higashi, Y. Hirai, Y. Inoue, K. Itoh, C. Kabuki, S. Kajino, F. et al. |
Citation: | The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 2009; 704(1):240-246 |
Publisher: | Univ Chicago Press |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
ISSN: | 0004-637X 1538-4357 |
Statement of Responsibility: | R. Kiuchi, M. Mori, G. V. Bicknell, R. W. Clay, P. G. Edwards, R. Enomoto, S. Gunji, S. Hara, T. Hara, T. Hattori, S. Hayashi, Y. Higashi, Y. Hirai, K. Inoue, C. Itoh, S. Kabuki, F. Kajino, H. Katagiri, A. Kawachi, T. Kifune, H. Kubo, J. Kushida, Y. Matsubara, T. Mizukami, Y. Mizumoto, R. Mizuniwa, H. Muraishi, Y. Muraki, T. Naito, T. Nakamori, S. Nakano, D. Nishida, K. Nishijima, M. Ohishi, Y. Sakamoto, A. Seki, V. Stamatescu, T. Suzuki, D. L. Swaby, T. Tanimori, G. Thornton, F. Tokanai, K. Tsuchiya, S. Watanabe, Y. Yamada, E. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, T. Yoshida, T. Yoshikoshi and Y. Yukawa |
Abstract: | Because accretion and merger shocks in clusters of galaxies may accelerate particles to high energies, clusters are candidate sites for the origin of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays. A prediction was presented for gamma-ray emission from a cluster of galaxies at a detectable level with the current generation of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The gamma-ray emission was produced via inverse Compton upscattering of cosmic microwave background photons by electron-positron pairs generated by collisions of UHE cosmic rays in the cluster. We observed two clusters of galaxies, Abell 3667 and Abell 4038, searching for very high energy gamma-ray emission with the CANGAROO-III atmospheric Cherenkov telescope system in 2006. The analysis showed no significant excess around these clusters, yielding upper limits on the gamma-ray emission. From a comparison of the upper limit for the northwest radio relic region of Abell 3667 with a model prediction, we derive a lower limit for the magnetic field of the region of ~0.1 μG. This shows the potential of gamma-ray observations in studies of the cluster environment. We also discuss the flux upper limit from cluster center regions using a model of gamma-ray emission from neutral pions produced in hadronic collisions of cosmic-ray protons with the intracluster medium. The derived upper limit of the cosmic-ray energy density within this framework is an order of magnitude higher than that of our Galaxy |
Keywords: | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) |
Rights: | © IOP Publishing 2009. Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arXiv.org in 2009 by Ryuta Kiuchi.Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org. |
DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/704/1/240 |
Grant ID: | ARC |
Published version: | http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3301 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Chemistry and Physics publications |
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