Issue |
A&A
Volume 659, March 2022
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Article Number | A83 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202142394 | |
Published online | 09 March 2022 |
Diffuse GeV emission in the field of HESS J1912+101 revisited
1
Guangxi Key Laboratory for Relativistic Astrophysics, School of Physics Science and Technology, Guangxi University,
Nanning
530004,
PR China
e-mail: xiaonasun@gxu.edu.cn
2
Department of Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei,
Anhui
230026,
PR China
3
CAS Key Labrotory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei,
Anhui
230026,
PR China
4
School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China,
Hefei,
Anhui 230026,
PR China
Received:
8
October
2021
Accepted:
1
February
2022
We have analyzed 12 years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data toward the HESS J1912+101 region. With the latest source catalog and diffuse background models, a γ-ray excess is detected with a significance of ~8σ in the energy range of above 10 GeV. It has been argued that the diffuse GeV emission in the vicinity of HESS J1912+101 are from an extended pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1913+1011 and also that the hard GeV emission above 10 GeV stems from the shell-type supernova remnant and is connected with the TeV emissions. Different from previous works, our analysis indicates that the H2 spatial template is preferred over the other spatial templates, suggesting that the diffuse emission component spatially correlates with the dense molecular gas. This spatial correlation favors a hadronic emission scenario, although a leptonic origin cannot be ruled out. In the hadronic scenario, the parent proton spectrum can be described by a power-law function with an index of α = 2.36 ± 0.16. Above 50 GeV, there is no emission, and the upper limits reveal a spectral cutoff or break in the parent proton spectrum that can be explained as propagation effects of cosmic rays. We argue that the parent protons may come from the candidate supernova remnant HESS J1912+101 or the young massive star cluster Mc20.
Key words: gamma rays: general / galaxies: star clusters: general / ISM: supernova remnants
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