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T Tauri stars as γ-ray source in the Rho Ophiuchi region

2020/06/29 by Filócomo, A., Escobar, G. J., Colombo, J. F. Albacete +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2006.16413

Abstract

More than 30 % of γ-ray sources detected in the last source catalog of the Fermi satellite have no observational counterpart at other frequencies. A significant fraction of these sources is positionally in agreement with star-forming regions dominated by associations of T Tauri stars. Rho Ophiuchi, which is one of the closest star-forming regions, matches the unidentified Fermi source 4FGL J1625.3-2338. In this work we modeled the spectral energy distribution considering some dominant radiative processes in T Tauri stars. Accounting for a total of 22 Class III T Tauri stars in the region, integrated γ-ray luminosity in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV energy range is consistent with the observed in the catalog for the 4FGL J1625.3-2338 source.

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