Bibcode
Acero, F.; Aloisio, R.; Amans, J.; Amato, E.; Antonelli, L. A.; Aramo, C.; Armstrong, T.; Arqueros, F.; Asano, K.; Ashley, M.; Backes, M.; Balazs, C.; Balzer, A.; Bamba, A.; Barkov, M.; Barrio, J. A.; Benbow, W.; Bernlöhr, K.; Beshley, V.; Bigongiari, C.; Biland, A.; Bilinsky, A.; Bissaldi, E.; Biteau, J.; Blanch, O.; Blasi, P.; Blazek, J.; Boisson, C.; Bonanno, G.; Bonardi, A.; Bonavolontà, C.; Bonnoli, G.; Braiding, C.; Brau-Nogué, S.; Bregeon, J.; Brown, A. M.; Bugaev, V.; Bulgarelli, A.; Bulik, T.; Burton, M.; Burtovoi, A.; Busetto, G.; Böttcher, M.; Cameron, R.; Capalbi, M.; Caproni, A.; Caraveo, P.; Carosi, R.; Cascone, E.; Cerruti, M.; Chaty, S.; Chen, A.; Chen, X.; Chernyakova, M.; Chikawa, M.; Chudoba, J.; Cohen-Tanugi, J.; Colafrancesco, S.; Conforti, V.; Contreras, J. L.; Costa, A.; Cotter, G.; Covino, S.; Covone, G.; Cumani, P.; Cusumano, G.; D’Ammando, F.; D’Urso, D.; Daniel, M.; Dazzi, F.; De Angelis, A.; De Cesare, G.; De Franco, A.; De Frondat, F.; de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M.; De Lisio, C.; de los Reyes Lopez, R.; De Lotto, B.; de Naurois, M.; De Palma, F.; Del Santo, M.; Delgado, C.; della Volpe, D.; Di Girolamo, T.; Di Giulio, C.; Di Pierro, F.; Di Venere, L.; Doro, M.; Dournaux, J.; Dumas, D.; Dwarkadas, V.; Díaz, C.; Ebr, J.; Egberts, K.; Einecke, S.; Elsässer, D.; Eschbach, S.; Falceta-Goncalves, D.; Fasola, G.; Fedorova, E. et al.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 840, Issue 2, article id. 74, 14 pp. (2017).
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Description
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.
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