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arxiv astro-ph/0601015 v2 pith:CDJGF227 submitted 2006-01-01 astro-ph

Radioactive 26Al and massive stars in the Galaxy

Roland Diehl , Hubert Halloin , Karsten Kretschmer , Giselher G. Lichti , Volker Schoenfelder , Andrew W.Strong , Andreas von Kienlin , Wei Wang
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Pierre Jean Juergen Knoedlseder Jean-Pierre Roques Georg Weidenspointner Stephane Schanne Dieter H. Hartmann Christoph Winkler Cornelia Wunderer
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Gamma-rays from radioactive 26Al (half life ~7.2 10^5 yr) provide a 'snapshot' view of ongoing nucleosynthesis in the Galaxy. The Galaxy is relatively transparent to such gamma-rays, and emission has been found concentrated along the plane of the Galaxy. This led to the conclusion1 that massive stars throughout the Galaxy dominate the production of 26Al. On the other hand, meteoritic data show locally-produced 26Al, perhaps from spallation reactions in the protosolar disk. Furthermore, prominent gamma-ray emission from the Cygnus region suggests that a substantial fraction of Galactic 26Al could originate in localized star-forming regions. Here we report high spectral resolution measurements of 26Al emission at 1808.65 keV, which demonstrate that the 26Al source regions corotate with the Galaxy, supporting its Galaxy-wide origin. We determine a present-day equilibrium mass of 2.8 (+/-0.8) M_sol of 26Al. We use this to estimate that the frequency of core collapse (i.e. type Ib/c and type II) supernovae to be 1.9(+/- 1.1) events per century.

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