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Implications of the Broad 26A1 1809 keV Line Observed by GRIS
NASA Astrophysics Data System
  • Wan Chen, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD & Department of Astronmy, University of Maryland
  • Roland Diehl, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik - Garching, Germany
  • Neil Gehrel, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
  • Dieter H. Hartmann, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
  • Mark Leising, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University
  • Juan E. Naya, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD & Universities Space Research Association
  • Nikos Prantzos, Institu d' Astrophysique de Paris
  • Jack Tueller, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
  • Peter von Ballmoos, Centre d'Etudes Spatialde des Rayonnements - CNR/UPS
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-1996
Publisher
European Space Agency
Abstract

The surprisingly large width of the 1809 ke V gamma-ray line from decay old radioactive Al, recently observed by GRIS (Naya et al. 1996), has profound astrophysical implications. While there may be no apparent, single mechanism that can explain the oberved broadening, wen identify high speed dust grains, extremely hot superbubbles, and a large, low density, gaseous halo in the Galactic center region as the possible origins and iscuss their intriguing revelation of the hot gas content in the ISM.

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