Speaker
Dr
Dirk Pandel
(Grand Valley State University)
Description
MGRO J1908+06 is a bright, extended TeV gamma-ray source located near the Galactic plane. The TeV emission has previously been attributed to the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of the nearby Fermi-LAT pulsar PSR J1907+0602. However, studies of the TeV morphology with VERITAS have shown that MGRO J1908+06 is somewhat larger than other PWNe of a similar age and that the TeV spectrum does not soften with distance from the pulsar as is observed for other PWNe. Although MGRO J1908+06 is very bright in gamma rays, having a flux corresponding to ~80% of the Crab Nebula flux at 20 TeV, no extended emission at other wavelengths has so far been detected. We report on our analysis of X-ray data obtained with XMM-Newton of the region near MGRO J1908+06. We searched the X-ray data for point-like X-ray sources that may be associated with the TeV emission, carried out an extended source analysis to constrain the diffuse X-ray emission from MGRO J1908+06, and modeled the multi-wavelengths spectrum of the source.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 1112 |
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| Collaboration | -- not specified -- |
Author
Dr
Dirk Pandel
(Grand Valley State University)
