6–9 Sept 2022
Physics Department, University "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Gamma-ray Interstellar Models in the inner Galaxy

7 Sept 2022, 18:42
2m
corridor at the first floor, close to Aula Careri

corridor at the first floor, close to Aula Careri

Speaker

Elena Orlando (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

Most analyses and interpretations of current high-quality data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope, especially in the Galactic center, highly rely on large-scale interstellar models of the diffuse emission, which are very uncertain. To complicate the picture, most of the current models officially used to analyze Fermi-LAT diffuse data usually do not take advantage of important constraints coming from radio and microwave available foreground data.

We present our approach and updates of our effort in coherently modeling the interstellar emission in the entire Galaxy by accounting for multifrequency observations from radio to gamma rays and for the latest accurate cosmic-ray direct measurements. This has clear implications for studies of the emission from the Galactic Center. For example, we found that models based on synchrotron observations in radio produce a more peaked inverse-Compton gamma-ray emission in the inner Galaxy with respect to the standard models used to analyze Fermi LAT data. Predictions for future missions at MeV, such as GECCO, ASTROGAM, and AMEGO are also shown.

This contribution is mainly based on our results from Orlando (2019) Physical Review D 99, 043007 and Orlando (2018) MNRAS 475, 2724.

Primary author

Elena Orlando (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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