{
  "id": "1103.5727",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2011-03-29T18:49:33.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-03-29T18:49:33.000Z",
  "title": "Observations of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope",
  "authors": [
    "A. A. Abdo",
    "Fermi LAT Collaboration"
  ],
  "comment": "Contact authors: Markus Ackermann, Stefan Funk, Yasunobu Uchiyama",
  "journal": "ApJ, 734, 28, 2011",
  "doi": "10.1088/0004-637X/734/1/28",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present observations of the young Supernova remnant (SNR) RX J1713.7-3946 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). We clearly detect a source positionally coincident with the SNR. The source is extended with a best-fit extension of 0.55$^{\\circ} \\pm 0.04^{\\circ}$ matching the size of the non-thermal X-ray and TeV gamma-ray emission from the remnant. The positional coincidence and the matching extended emission allows us to identify the LAT source with the supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946. The spectrum of the source can be described by a very hard power-law with a photon index of $\\Gamma = 1.5 \\pm 0.1$ that coincides in normalization with the steeper H.E.S.S.-detected gamma-ray spectrum at higher energies. The broadband gamma-ray emission is consistent with a leptonic origin as the dominant mechanism for the gamma-ray emission.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2011-03-29T18:49:33.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "fermi large area telescope",
      "young supernova remnant rx j1713",
      "gamma-ray emission",
      "observations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Jun",
      "volume": 734,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": 28
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 894302,
      "adsabs": "2011ApJ...734...28A"
    }
  }
}