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arxiv: astro-ph/0501123 · v1 · submitted 2005-01-07 · 🌌 astro-ph

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INTEGRAL/IBIS search for e-e+ annihilation radiation from the Galactic Center Region

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Electron-positron annihilation radiation from the Galactic Center region has been detected since the seventies, but its astrophysical origin is still a topic of a scientific debate. We have analyzed data of the gamma-ray imager IBIS/ISGRI onboard of ESA's INTEGRAL platform in the e$^{-}$e$^{+}$ line. During the first year of the missions Galactic Center Deep Exposure no evidence for point sources at 511 keV has been found in the ISGRI data; the $2 \sigma$ upper limit for resolved single point sources is estimated to be $1.6\times 10^{-4} ph cm^{-2} s^{-1}$.

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