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Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Fermi Studies of Collaborators: D. Castro S. Funk Y. Uchiyama J. D. Gelfand O. C. de Jager A. Lemiere.

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1 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Fermi Studies of Collaborators: D. Castro S. Funk Y. Uchiyama J. D. Gelfand O. C. de Jager A. Lemiere M. Lemoine-Goumard Composite Supernova Remnants

2 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Evolution of PWN Emission synchrotron CMB inverse Compton Spin-down power is injected into the PWN at a time-dependent rate Assume power law input spectrum: - note that studies of Crab and other PWNe suggest that there may be multiple components Get associated synchrotron and IC emission from electron population in the evolved nebula - combined information on observed spectrum and system size provide constraints on underlying structure and evolution 1000 yr 2000 yr 5000 yr

3 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 HESS J1640-465 Extended source identified in HESS GPS - no known pulsar associated with source - may be associated with SNR G338.3-0.0 XMM observations (Funk et al. 2007) identify extended X-ray PWN Chandra observations (Lemiere et al. 2009) reveal neutron star within extended nebula - L x ∼ 10 33.1 erg s -1  Ė ~ 10 36.7 erg s -1 - X-ray and TeV spectrum well-described by leptonic model with B ∼ 6 μG and t ∼ 15 kyr - example of late-phase of PWN evolution: X-ray faint, but  -ray bright LAT 1 yr sensitivity Lemiere et al. 2009

4 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 HESS J1640-465 Extended source identified in HESS GPS - no known pulsar associated with source - may be associated with SNR G338.3-0.0 XMM observations (Funk et al. 2007) identify extended X-ray PWN Chandra observations (Lemiere et al. 2009) reveal neutron star within extended nebula - L x ∼ 10 33.1 erg s -1  Ė ~ 10 36.7 erg s -1 - X-ray and TeV spectrum well-described by leptonic model with B ∼ 6 μG and t ∼ 15 kyr - example of late-phase of PWN evolution: X-ray faint, but  -ray bright Fermi LAT reveals emission associated with source Slane et al. 2010

5 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 HESS J1640-465 Slane et al. 2010 PWN model with evolved power law electron spectrum fits X-ray and TeV emission - Fermi emission falls well above model

6 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 HESS J1640-465 Slane et al. 2010 PWN model with evolved power law electron spectrum fits X-ray and TeV emission - Fermi emission falls well above model Modifying low-energy electron spectrum by adding Maxwellian produces GeV emission through inverse Compton scattering - primary contribution is from IR from dust (similar to Vela X) - mean energy (  ∼ 10 5 ) and fraction in power law ( ∼ 4%) consistent w/ particle acceleration models

7 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 HESS J1640-465 Slane et al. 2010 PWN model with evolved power law electron spectrum fits X-ray and TeV emission - Fermi emission falls well above model Modifying low-energy electron spectrum by adding Maxwellian produces GeV emission through inverse Compton scattering - primary contribution is from IR from dust (similar to Vela X) - mean energy (  ∼ 10 5 ) and fraction in power law ( ∼ 4%) consistent w/ particle acceleration models GeV emission can also be fit w/ pion model - requires n 0 > 100 cm -3, too large for G338.3-0.3

8 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 G327.1-1.1: More (Reverse) Shocking Results Temim et al. 2009 G327.1-1.1 is a composite SNR for which radio morphology suggests PWN/RS interaction Chandra observations show an offset compact source w/ trail of nonthermal emission extending back to radio PWN - compact source is extended and embedded in bowshock- structure - prong-like structures extend from source, inflating bubble in region cleared out by RS

9 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 G327.1-1.1: More (Reverse) Shocking Results Temim et al. 2009 G327.1-1.1 is a composite SNR for which radio morphology suggests PWN/RS interaction Chandra observations show an offset compact source w/ trail of nonthermal emission extending back to radio PWN - compact source is extended and embedded in bowshock- structure - prong-like structures extend from source, inflating bubble in region cleared out by RS

10 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Probing Composite SNRs With Fermi Good candidate for  -rays, And… G327.1-1.1 is a composite SNR for which radio morphology suggests PWN/RS interaction Chandra observations show an offset compact source w/ trail of nonthermal emission extending back to radio PWN - compact source is extended and embedded in bowshock- structure - prong-like structures extend from source, inflating bubble in region cleared out by RS

11 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Probing Composite SNRs With Fermi Weak, but maybe a detection.

12 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Probing Composite SNRs With Fermi 1FGL J1552.4-5609 But what about this one?

13 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Probing Composite SNRs With Fermi Watch for studies of these and other such systems with Fermi 1FGL J1552.4-5609

14 Bremen, Germany Patrick Slane (CfA) COSPAR 2010: E19 Conclusions Gamma-ray emission provides important information about PWN particles that are difficult to probe at other wavelengths Observations of HESS J1640-465 appear to require an additional low-energy electron component - may be a thermal peak, but could be a distinct spatial component as well Other evolved PWN are good candidates for Fermi studies, and may reveal new information on reverse-shock interactions and underlying particle distributions


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