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Microquasar Cygnus X-3 as the PeVatron Powering the Cygnus Bubble

  • Authors: Zhaodong Shi, Guangwei Wang, Rui-zhi Yang, Felix Aharonian

Zhaodong Shi et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

The γ-ray flux from within a 6° radius emission region for Iroshnikov–Kraichnan turbulence (δ = 1/2), assuming that tage = 1 Myr. The black line shows the summation of our model and diffuse Galactic γ-ray fluxes, while the latter is shown by the blue dashed–dotted–dotted line. The red flux points for a 6° radius bubble are taken from LHAASO Collaboration (2024). The diffusion coefficient normalization D0 = 3 × 1029 cm2 s−1, the CR injection spectral index s = 2.45 and its cutoff energy E0 = 10 PeV, the gas distribution is nonhomogeneous and is given by Equation (12) with n0 = 1 cm−3 and zc = 300 pc, and the CR injection kinetic power above 1 TeV is ﹩{\dot{W}}_{{\rm{CR}}}(\gt \,{\rm{1}}\,\,\,{\rm{TeV}}\,)=5.6\times 1{0}^{38}\,{\rm{erg}}\,{{\rm{s}}}^{-1}﹩.

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