Speaker
Mrs
Ludmilla Dirson
(Uni of Hamburg)
Description
The Crab nebula provides exceptionally bright non-thermal emission across the entire wavelength range from radio to the most energetic photons. The spatial and spectral structure of the non-thermal synchrotron emission is known in exceptional detail. The inverse Compton emission of the nebula has just recently been spatially resolved.
In this work, we reexamine the inverse Compton scattering model for the unpulsed TeV emission from the Crab Nebula. We include for the first time in detail the spatial distribution of the seed photons coming from the thermal emission. We compare the predicted spectrum with the observations including recent spectral measurements with the Fermi-LAT instrument and ground-based Cherenkov telescopes data. We will present preliminary results at the conference.
Primary authors
Prof.
Dieter Horns
(Univ. Hamburg)
Mrs
Ludmilla Dirson
(Uni of Hamburg)
