RHESSI results on γ-ray lines from diffuse radioactivity

✍ Scribed by D.M. Smith

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 229 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1387-6473
• DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2003.11.011

✦ Synopsis

Although designed to study solar flares, the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), a NASA satellite, has proven to be sensitive to c-ray lines generated by recently created radionuclei in the inner Galaxy. I present the current state of this investigation, including flux and line shape measurements of the 1809 keV line from 26 Al and a preliminary detection of the lines of 60 Fe.