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Article
Gamma-Ray Constraints on the Galactic Supernova Rate
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1993
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations of the expected gamma-ray signatures of galactic supernovae of all types are performed in order to estimate the significance of the lack of a gamma-ray signal due to supernovae occurring during the last millenium. Using recent estimates of nuclear yields, we determine galactic supernova rates consistent with the historic supernova record and the gamma-ray limits. Another objective of these calculations of galactic supernova histories is their application to surveys of diffuse galactic gamma-ray line emission.
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