Pulsars and the Distribution of Celestial Gamma Rays
- 31 August 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 25 (9), 603-605
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.25.603
Abstract
The flux of celestial gamma rays from discrete sources (for example, pulsars) is calculated, showing that these sources emit fluxes of several quanta/ sec over regions of several tens of degrees (among them Vela X). Hence they should be observable. The calculations show further that the high gamma-ray flux values of OSO-III follow from the expected correlation of cosmic-ray sources with regions of large hydrogen density.
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