Published October 7, 2001 | Version v1
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Population studies of the gamma-ray sources

Creators

  • 1. Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Fisica Spaziale, Viale Severo 63, Torino, I-10133 (Italy)
  • 2. Istituto di Fisica Cosmica G. Occhialini, CNR, via Bassini 15, Milano, I-20133 (Italy)

Description

We present the status of ongoing modelling of the populations of the EGRET point sources. To analyze the two-dimenstional distribution, we wrote Monte Carlo simulations to produce model populations. We compared models containing an isotropic component and one or two galactic components to the EGRET catalog; preliminary results indicate that while one galactic component produces a spatial distribution consistent with the EGRET sources, the resulting flux distributions are inconsistent. Simultaneous comparison of spatial and flux distributions will allow physical models to be constrained

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1063/1.1419479;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
587
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 663-667
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
Gamma-ray astrophysics 2001
Acronym
6. Compton symposium
Dates
4-6 Apr 2001
Place
Baltimore, MD (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35076252
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTRONOMY; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; GAMMA DETECTION; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POINT SOURCES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TELESCOPES
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; DETECTION; DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION SOURCES; RADIATIONS; SIMULATION

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Notes
(c) 2001 American Institute of Physics.