13 April 2022
Australia/Sydney timezone

Estimating the Gamma-ray and Neutrino Fluxes from Supernova Remnants and Galactic Molecular Clouds

13 Apr 2022, 15:30
20m

Speaker

Ryan Burley

Description

Our Galaxy hosts numerous molecular gas clouds which act as targets for the high-energy particles produced by nearby particle accelerators. These particle interactions produce high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos which should be detectable which upcoming observatories, such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and IceCube-Gen2. In this work, we use a rapidly developing software which models the propagation of particles in the interstellar medium (partISM) to investigate the hadronic interactions of particles accelerated by supernova remnants (SNRs) with Galactic molecular gas clouds (GMCs). We present a selection of SNR and GMC combinations which should produce a 100TeV gamma-ray flux observable by CTA, and as such point towards the corresponding SNR as a promising PeVatron candidate.

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