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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 749, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/749/1/26
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gamma rays: stars; ISM: supernova remnants; magnetic reconnection; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); pulsars: individual (Crab); radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
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- NASA
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The Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite observed a gamma-ray flare in the Crab Nebula lasting for approximately nine days in April of 2011. The source, which at optical wavelengths has a size of approximate to 11 lt-yr across, doubled its gamma-ray flux within eight hours. The peak photon flux was (186 +/- 6) x 10(-7) cm(-2) s(-1) above 100 MeV, which corresponds to a 30-fold increase compared to the average value. During the flare, a new component emerged in the spectral energy distribution, which peaked at an energy of (375 +/- 26) MeV at flare maximum. The observations imply that the emission region was likely relativistically beamed toward us and that variations in its motion are responsible for the observed spectral variability.
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