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Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7-3946




AuthorsAcero F, Aloisio R, Amans J, Amato E, Antonelli LA, Aramo C, Armstrong T, Arqueros F, Asano K, Ashley M, Backes M, Balazs C, Balzer A, Bamba A, Barkov M, Barrio JA, Benbow W, Bernloehr 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, Bonavolonta C, Bonnoli G, Braiding C, Brau-Nogue S, Bregeon J, Brown AM, Bugaev V, Bulgarelli A, Bulik T, Burton M, Burtovoi A, Busetto G, Bottcher 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 JL, 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, Dal Pino EMD, De Lisio C, Lopez RD, 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, Diaz C, Ebr J, Egberts K, Einecke S, Elsasser D, Eschbach S, Falceta-Goncalves D, Fasola G, Fedorova E, Fernandez-Barral A, Ferrand G, Fesquet M, Fiandrini E, Fiasson A, Filipovic MD, Fioretti V, Font L, Fontaine G, Franco FJ, Coromina LF, Fujita Y, Fukui Y, Funk S, Forster A, Gadola A, Lopez RG, Garczarczyk M, Giglietto N, Giordano F, Giuliani A, Glicenstein J, Gnatyk R, Goldoni P, Grabarczyk T, Graciani R, Graham J, Grandi P, Granot J, Green AJ, Griffiths S, Gunji S, Hakobyan H, Hara S, Hassan T, Hayashida M, Heller M, Helo JC, Hinton J, Hnatyk B, Huet J, Huetten M, Humensky TB, Hussein M, Horandel J, Ikeno Y, Inada T, Inome Y, Inoue S, Inoue T, Inoue Y, Ioka K, Iori M, Jacquemier J, Janecek P, Jankowsky D, Jung I, Kaaret P, Katagiri H, Kimeswenger S, Kimura S, Knodlseder J, Koch B, Kocot J, Kohri K, Komin N, Konno Y, Kosack K, Koyama S, Kraus M, Kubo H, Mezek GK, Kushida J, La Palombara N, Lalik K, Lamanna G, Landt H, Lapington J, Laporte P, Lee S, Lees J, Lefaucheur J, Lenain JP, Leto G, Lindfors E, Lohse T, Lombardi S, Longo F, Lopez M, Lucarelli F, Luque-Escamilla PL, Lopez-Coto R, Maccarone MC, Maier G, Malaguti G, Mandat D, Maneva G, Mangano S, Marcowith A, Marti J, Martinez M, Martinez G, Masuda S, Maurin G, Maxted N, Melioli C, Mineo T, Mirabal N, Mizuno T, Moderski R, Mohammed M, Montaruli T, Moralejo A, Mori K, Morlino G, Morselli A, Moulin E, Mukherjee R, Mundell C, Muraishi H, Murase K, Nagataki S, Nagayoshi T, Naito T, Nakajima D, Nakamori T, Nemmen R, Niemiec J, Nieto D, Nievas-Rosillo M, Nikolajuk M, Nishijima K, Noda K, Nogues L, Nosek D, Novosyadlyj B, Nozaki S, Ohira Y, Ohishi M, Ohm S, Okumura A, Ong RA, Orito R, Orlati A, Ostrowski M, Oya I, Padovani M, Palacio J, Palatka M, Paredes JM, Pavy S, Pe'er A, Persic M, Petrucci P, Petruk O, Pisarski A, Pohl M, Porcelli A, Prandini E, Prast J, Principe G, Prouza M, Pueschel E, Puhlhofer G, Quirrenbach A, Rameez M, Reimer O, Renaud M, Riboo M, Rico J, Rizi V, Rodriguez J, Fernandez GR, Vazquez JJR, Romano P, Romeo G, Rosado J, Rousselle J, Rowell G, Rudak B, Sadeh I, Safi-Harb S, Saito T, Sakaki N, Sanchez D, Sangiorgi P, Sano H, Santander M, Sarkar S, Sawada M, Schioppa EJ, Schoorlemmer H, Schovanek P, Schussler F, Sergijenko O, Servillat M, Shalchi A, Shellard RC, Siejkowski H, Sillanpaa A, Simone D, Sliusar V, Sol H, Stanic S, Starling R, Stawarz L, Stefanik S, Stephan M, Stolarczyk T, Szanecki M, Szepieniec T, Tagliaferri G, Tajima H, Takahashi M, Takeda J, Tanaka M, Tanaka S, Tejedor LA, Telezhinsky I, Temnikov P, Terada Y, Tescaro D, Teshima M, Testa V, Thoudam S, Tokanai F, Torres DF, Torresi E, Tosti G, Townsley C, Travnicek P, Trichard C, Trifoglio M, Tsujimoto S, Vagelli V, Vallania P, Valore L, van Driel W, van Eldik C, Vandenbroucke J, Vassiliev V, Vecchi M, Vercellone S, Vergani S, Vigorito C, Vorobiov S, Vrastil M, Acosta MLV, Wagner SJ, Wagner R, Wakely SP, Walter R, Ward JE, Watson JJ, Weinstein A, White M, White R, Wierzcholska A, Wilcox P, Williams DA, Wischnewski R, Wojcik P, Yamamoto T, Yamamoto H, Yamazaki R, Yanagita S, Yang L, Yoshida T, Yoshida M, Yoshiike S, Yoshikoshi T, Zacharias M, Zampieri L, Zanin R, Zavrtanik M, Zavrtanik D, Zdziarski A, Zech A, Zechlin H, Zhdanov V, Ziegler A, Zorn J, Zampieri L, Zacharias M, Zavrtanik M, Zanin R, Yoshida M, Yoshida T, Yoshikoshi T, Yoshiike S, Ziegler A, Zhdanov V, Zorn J, Zdziarski A, Zavrtanik D, Zechlin H, Zech A, Yamamoto H, Yamazaki R, Yanagita S, Yang L

PublisherIOP PUBLISHING LTD

Publication year2017

JournalAstrophysical Journal

Journal name in sourceASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Journal acronymASTROPHYS J

Article numberARTN 74

Volume840

Issue2

Number of pages14

ISSN0004-637X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6d67


Abstract
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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