Prospects for Cherenkov Telescope Array Observations of the Young Supernova Remnant RX J1713.7−3946
Year: 2017
Type: article
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.
Source: The Astrophysical Journal
Authors: F. Acero, R. Aloisio, J. Amans, E. Amato, L. A. Antonelli, C. Aramo, T. Armstrong, F. Arqueros, K. Asano, M. Ashley, M. Backes, C. Balazs, A. Balzer, A. Bamba, M. Barkov, J. A. Barrio, W. Benbow, K. Bernlöhr, V. Beshley, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland, A. Bilinsky, E. Bissaldi, J. Biteau, O. Blanch, P. Blasi, J. Blazek, C. Boisson, G. Bonanno, A. Bonardi, C. Bonavolontà, G. Bonnoli, C. Braiding, S. Brau-Nogué, J. Bregeon, A. M. Brown, V. Bugaev, A. Bulgarelli, T. Bulik, M. Burton, A. Burtovoi, G. Busetto, M. Böttcher, R. Cameron, M. Capalbi, A. Caproni, P. Caraveo, R. Carosi, E. Cascone, M. Cerruti, S. Chaty, A. Chen, X. Chen, M. Chernyakova, M. Chikawa, J. Chudoba, J. Cohen-Tanugi, S. Colafrancesco, V. Conforti, J. L. Contreras, A. Costa, G. Cotter, S. Covino, G. Covone, P. Cumani, G. Cusumano, F. D’Ammando, D. D’Urso, M. Daniel, F. Dazzi, A. De Angelis, G. De Cesare, A. De Franco, F. De Frondat, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, C. De Lisio, R. de los Reyes Lopez, B. De Lotto, M. de Naurois, F. De Palma, M. Del Santo, C. Delgado, D. della Volpe, T. Di Girolamo, C. Di Giulio, F. Di Pierro, L. Di Venere, M. Doro, J. Dournaux, D. Dumas, V. Dwarkadas, C. Díaz, J. Ebr, K. Egberts, S. Einecke, D. Elsässer, S. Eschbach, D. Falceta-Goncalves, G. Fasola, E. Fedorova, A. Fernández-Barral, G. Ferrand, M. Fesquet, E. Fiandrini, A. Fiasson, M. D. Filipovíc, V. Fioretti, L. Font, G. Fontaine, F. J. Franco, L. Freixas Coromina, Y. Fujita, Y. Fukui, S. Funk, A. Förster, A. Gadola, R. Garcia López, M. Garczarczyk, N. Giglietto, F. Giordano, A. Giuliani, J. Glicenstein, R. Gnatyk, P. Goldoni, T. Grabarczyk, R. Graciani, J. Graham, P. Grandi, J. Granot, A. J. Green, S. Griffiths, S. Gunji, H. Hakobyan, S. Hara, T. Hassan, M. Hayashida, M. Heller, J. C. Helo, J. Hinton, B. Hnatyk, J. Huet, M. Huetten, T. B. Humensky, M. Hussein, J. Hörandel, Y. Ikeno, T. Inada, Y. Inome, S. Inoue, T. Inoue, Y. Inoue, K. Ioka, M. Iori, J. Jacquemier, P. Janecek, D. Jankowsky, I. Jung, P. Kaaret, H. Katagiri, S. Kimeswenger, S. Kimura, J. Knödlseder, B. Koch, J. Kocot, K. Kohri, N. Komin, Y. Konno, K. Kosack, S. Koyama, M. Kraus, H. Kubo, G. Kukec Mezek, J. Kushida, N. La Palombara, K. Lalik, G. Lamanna, H. Landt, J. Lapington, P. Laporte, S. Lee, J. Lees, J. Lefaucheur, J.-P. Lenain, G. Leto, E. Lindfors, T. Lohse, S. Lombardi, F. Longo, M. Lopez, F. Lucarelli, P. L. Luque-Escamilla, R. López-Coto, M. C. Maccarone, G. Maier, G. Malaguti, D. Mandat, G. Maneva, S. Mangano, A. Marcowith, J. Martí, M. Martínez, G. Martínez, S. Masuda, G. Maurin, N. Maxted, C. Melioli, T. Mineo, N. Mirabal, T. Mizuno, R. Moderski, M. Mohammed, T. Montaruli, A. Moralejo, K. Mori, G. Morlino, A. Morselli, E. Moulin, R. Mukherjee, C. Mundell, H. Muraishi, K. Murase, S. Nagataki, T. Nagayoshi, T. Naito, D. Nakajima, T. Nakamori, R. Nemmen, J. Niemiec, D. Nieto, M. Nievas-Rosillo, M. Nikołajuk, K. Nishijima, K. Noda, L. Nogues, D. Nosek, B. Novosyadlyj, S. Nozaki, Y. Ohira, M. Ohishi, S. Ohm, A. Okumura, R. A. Ong, R. Orito, A. Orlati, M. Ostrowski, I. Oya, M. Padovani, J. Palacio, M. Palatka, J. M. Paredes, S. Pavy, A. Pe’er, M. Persic, P. Petrucci, O. Petruk, A. Pisarski, M. Pohl, A. Porcelli, E. Prandini, J. Prast, G. Principe, M. Prouza, E. Pueschel, G. Pühlhofer, A. Quirrenbach, M. Rameez, O. Reimer, M. Renaud, M. Ribó, J. Rico, V. Rizi, J. Rodriguez, G. Rodriguez Fernandez, J. J. Rodríguez Vázquez, P. Romano, G. Romeo, J. Rosado, J. Rousselle, G. Rowell, B. Rudak, I. Sadeh, S. Safi-Harb, T. Saito, N. Sakaki, D. Sanchez, P. Sangiorgi, H. Sano, M. Santander, S. Sarkar, M. Sawada, E. J. Schioppa, H. Schoorlemmer, P. Schovanek, F. Schussler, O. Sergijenko, M. Servillat, A. Shalchi, R. C. Shellard, H. Siejkowski, A. Sillanpää, D. Simone, V. Sliusar, H. Sol, S. Stanič, R. Starling, Ł. Stawarz, S. Stefanik, M. Stephan, T. Stolarczyk, M. Szanecki, T. Szepieniec, G. Tagliaferri, H. Tajima, M. Takahashi, J. Takeda, M. Tanaka, S. Tanaka, L. A. Tejedor, I. Telezhinsky, P. Temnikov, Y. Terada, D. Tescaro, M. Teshima, V. Testa, S. Thoudam, F. Tokanai, D. F. Torres, E. Torresi, G. Tosti, C. Townsley, P. Travnicek, C. Trichard, M. Trifoglio, S. Tsujimoto, V. Vagelli, P. Vallania, L. Valore, W. van Driel, C. van Eldik, J. Vandenbroucke, V. Vassiliev, M. Vecchi, S. Vercellone, S. Vergani, C. Vigorito, S. Vorobiov, M. Vrastil, M. L. Vázquez Acosta, S. J. Wagner, R. Wagner, S. P. Wakely, R. Walter, J. E. Ward, J. J. Watson, A. Weinstein, M. White, R. White, A. Wierzcholska, P. Wilcox, D. A. Williams, R. Wischnewski, P. Wojcik, T. Yamamoto, H. Yamamoto, R. Yamazaki, S. Yanagita, L. Yang, T. Yoshida, M. Yoshida, S. Yoshiike, T. Yoshikoshi, M. Zacharias, L. Zampieri, R. Zanin, M. Zavrtanik, D. Zavrtanik, A. Zdziarski, A. Zech, H. Zechlin, V. Zhdanov, A. Ziegler, J. Zorn
Institutions: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CEA Paris-Saclay, Institut de Recherche sur les Lois Fondamentales de l'Univers, University of L'Aquila, Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Observatoire de Paris, Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique et Instrumentation, Astronomical Observatory of Rome, National Institute for Astrophysics, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Durham University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, UNSW Sydney, University of Namibia, Monash University, University of Amsterdam, RIKEN, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Pidstryhach Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, ETH Zurich, Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Lviv University, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Polytechnic University of Bari, Université Paris-Sud, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d’Orsay, Institute for High Energy Physics, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Czech Academy of Sciences, FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Radboud University Nijmegen, Brera Astronomical Observatory, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Washington University in St. Louis, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Bologna, University of Warsaw, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, University of Padua, North-West University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica di Palermo, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, University of the Witwatersrand, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Dublin City University, Kindai University, University of Oxford, Istituto di Radioastronomia di Bologna, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, CTA Observatory, Universidade de São Paulo, University of Udine, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, École Polytechnique, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, University of Geneva, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, University of Bari Aldo Moro, University of Chicago, University of Potsdam, TU Dortmund University, University of Würzburg, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules, Western Sydney University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, The University of Osaka, Nagoya University, University of Zurich, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Akademickie Centrum Komputerowe Cyfronet AGH, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Open University of Israel, The University of Sydney, Yamagata University, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Yamanashi Gakuin University, Columbia University, University of Manitoba, Tokai University, Konan University, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Kyoto University, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, University of Iowa, Ibaraki University, Universidad Católica del Norte, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, University of Nova Gorica, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Leicester, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Université Paris Diderot, University of Turku, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Trieste, Universidad de Jaén, Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Hiroshima University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg University, University of Miyazaki, University of Bath, Kitasato University, Saitama University, Max Planck Institute for Physics, University of Białystok, Charles University, Aoyama Gakuin University, University of California, Los Angeles, Tokushima University, Jagiellonian University, Trieste Astronomical Observatory, Université Joseph Fourier, Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, University College Dublin, University of Tübingen, Universität Innsbruck, The University of Adelaide, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, University of Łódź, Linnaeus University, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Institute of Space Sciences, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, Aix-Marseille Université, Centre de physique des particules de Marseille, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Stockholm University, Iowa State University, University of California, Santa Cruz
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Iowa State University, Barnard College, Leverhulme Trust, University of Leicester, University of Oxford, European Commission, Durham University, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy, Grantová Agentura České Republiky, Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Gobierno de Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS, Vetenskapsrådet, Narodowym Centrum Nauki, Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost, Ministère de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Bergens Forskningsstiftelse, State Committee of Science, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Argonne National Laboratory
Awards: Properties of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, G1184370674, G1323383031, G196419191, G2109279595, L'énigme de la masse, G2861369480, Molecular and atomic clouds associated with the supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, G3207356259, G3456816189, Further understanding of high-energy astronomical phenomena by operating the large-aperture atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray telescopes, G3778686075, G393177772, G4024179242, G4104599821, G4166196712, From accelerated particles to cosmic rays --- Understanding particle acceleration and escape with New-generation X-ray/gamma-ray observatories, Study of the Extreme Universe with the CTA Large Size Telescopes, G4496710062, The Preparatory Phase for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
(CTA-PP), Applications of astronomical all-sky cameras and their data reduction and analysis, Czech participation in CTA managemen, Co-evolution of galaxy clusters and black holes., G5702163051, G5831461947, Study of cosmic-ray acceleration at supernova remnant shocks propagating into realistic inhomogeneous media, G5995466353, G6101280128, Experimental Verification of Induced Compton Scattering, Origin of the Cosmic Ray Knee Explored by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Arrays, Innovation of the “Interstellar medium” by accurate measurements of the interstellar hydrogen, G7452409370, New picture of high-energy astronomical phenomena with turbulence acceleration of particles, Assuring of the Czech participation in the CTA project, G7869699228, Origines, Constituants et EVolution de l'Univers, G8550762270, G9000200233, G962810881
OpenAlex ID: W2605733806