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Hard Cosmic X-Ray Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

L. E. Peterson
L. E. Peterson*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif. 92037, U.S.A.

Abstract

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A review of the observational status of X-ray sources detected in the 20 ⋍ 500 keV range is presented. Of the approximately 115 sources listed in the March 1972 edition of the UHURU 2–6 keV sky survey catalog, about 15 sources have been studied in hard X-rays. Most of the data have been obtained from balloons, although the OSO-3, and more recently the OSO-7, have contributed. With the exception of CEN A, the SMC, and possibly M-87, all the sources detected at higher energies are galactic and heavily concentrated in the galactic plane. The Crab Nebula has been measured to about 500 keV in continuous emission and a component at the ⋍ 33 ms pulsar period comprising about 20% of the total emission has been detected to ∼10 MeV. Objects such as SCO-1 and CYG-2 are characterized by an exponential spectrum, which varies over a 10 min. time scale about a factor of two, and a flatter spectrum extending to above 40 keV which exhibits independent variability. Objects such as CYG-1 and possibly CYG-3 have a multi-component power law spectrum extending to over 100 keV, and may vary many factors over a period of weeks. Other sources generally not yet identified with optical or radio candidates, located in the Galactic Center and the Centaurus/Crux region also show considerable variability, and in one case may have been detected to nearly 500 keV. Only upper limits at about 2 × 10−4 photon (cm2 s keV)−1 in the 20–50 keV range exist for most supernova remnants and extragalactic sources.

Type
Part I: Galactic Sources
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 55: X- and Gamma-Ray Astronomy , 1973 , pp. 51 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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