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60Fe and Massive Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2008

Wei Wang
Wei Wang*
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China email: wangwei@bao.ac.cn
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Abstract

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Gamma-ray line emission from radioactive decay of 60Fe provides constraints on nucleosynthesis in massive stars and supernovae. We detect the γ-ray lines from 60Fe decay at 1173 and 1333 keV using three years of data from the spectrometer SPI on board INTEGRAL. The average flux per line is (4.4 ± 0.9) × 10−5 ph cm−2 s−1 rad−1 for the inner Galaxy region. Deriving the Galactic 26Al gamma-ray line flux with using the same set of observations and analysis method, we determine the flux ratio of 60Fe/26Al gamma-rays as 0.15 ± 0.05. We discuss the implications of these results for the widely-held hypothesis that 60Fe is synthesized in core-collapse supernovae, and also for the closely-related question of the precise origin of 26Al in massive stars.

Keywords

ISM: abundancesnucleosynthesis
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S252: The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century , April 2008 , pp. 333 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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