Hadronic particle acceleration in the supernova remnant SN 1006 as traced by Fermi-LAT observations

Abstract

The supernova remnant SN 1006 is a source of high-energy particles detected at radio, X-rays, and tera-electronvolt gamma rays. It was also announced as a source of gamma rays by Fermi-LAT but only the north-east (NE) limb was detected at more than $5\sigma$ significance level. Using 15 years of Fermi-LAT observation and a thorough morphological analysis above 1 GeV, we report the detection of the NE rim at the $6\sigma$ level and the south-west (SW) rim at the $5.5\sigma$ level using radio templates from the GLEAM survey. The spectral analysis performed between 100 MeV and 1 TeV allows the detection of a hard spectral index for the NE limb of $1.7\pm 0.1\pm 0.1$ while the emission detected in the SW is well reproduced with a steeper spectral index of $2.2\pm 0.1\pm 0.1$. A marginal detection (~$3\sigma$) of emission coincident with the bright north-west (NW) H$\alpha$ filament is also described with a similar spectral index of ~2.1. We successfully characterized the non-thermal multi-wavelength emission of the NE and SW limbs with a model in which inverse-Compton emission dominates in the NE while proton-proton interactions becomes significant in the SW due to the enhanced density of the medium.

Accepted for publication in A&A. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2311.01834

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