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Prospects for Cherenkov telescope array observations of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7−3946.
Acero, F. and Aloisio, R. and Amans, J. and Amato, E. and Antonelli, L. A. and Aramo, C. and Armstrong, T. and Arqueros, F. and Asano, K. and Ashley, M. and Backes, M. and Balazs, C. and Balzer, A. and Bamba, A. and Barkov, M. and Barrio, J. A. and Benbow, W. and Bernlöhr, K. and Beshley, V. and Bigongiari, C. and Biland, A. and Bilinsky, A. and Bissaldi, E. and Biteau, J. and Blanch, O. and Blasi, P. and Blazek, J. and Boisson, C. and Bonanno, G. and Bonardi, A. and Bonavolontà, C. and Bonnoli, G. and Braiding, C. and Brau-Nogué, S. and Bregeon, J. and Brown, A. M. and Bugaev, V. and Bulgarelli, A. and Bulik, T. and Burton, M. and Burtovoi, A. and Busetto, G. and Böttcher, M. and Cameron, R. and Capalbi, M. and Caproni, A. and Caraveo, P. and Carosi, R. and Cascone, E. and Cerruti, M. and Chaty, S. and Chen, A. and Chen, X. and Chernyakova, M. and Chikawa, M. and Chudoba, J. and Cohen-Tanugi, J. and Colafrancesco, S. and Conforti, V. and Contreras, J. L. and Costa, A. and Cotter, G. and Covino, S. and Covone, G. and Cumani, P. and Cusumano, G. and D’Ammando, F. and D’Urso, D. and Daniel, M. and Dazzi, F. and De Angelis, A. and De Cesare, G. and De Franco, A. and De Frondat, F. and de Gouveia Dal Pino, E. M. and De Lisio, C. and de los Reyes Lopez, R. and De Lotto, B. and de Naurois, M. and De Palma, F. and Del Santo, M. and Delgado, C. and della Volpe, D. and Di Girolamo, T. and Di Giulio, C. and Di Pierro, F. and Di Venere, L. and Doro, M. and Dournaux, J. and Dumas, D. and Dwarkadas, V. and Díaz, C. and Ebr, J. and Egberts, K. and Einecke, S. and Elsässer, D. and Eschbach, S. and Falceta-Goncalves, D. and Fasola, G. and Fedorova, E. and Fernández-Barral, A. and Ferrand, G. and Fesquet, M. and Fiandrini, E. and Fiasson, A. and Filipovíc, M. D. and Fioretti, V. and Font, L. and Fontaine, G. and Franco, F. J. and Coromina, L. Freixas and Fujita, Y. and Fukui, Y. and Funk, S. and Förster, A. and Gadola, A. and López, R. 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C. and Siejkowski, H. and Sillanpää, A. and Simone, D. and Sliusar, V. and Sol, H. and Stanič, S. and Starling, R. and Stawarz, Ł. and Stefanik, S. and Stephan, M. and Stolarczyk, T. and Szanecki, M. and Szepieniec, T. and Tagliaferri, G. and Tajima, H. and Takahashi, M. and Takeda, J. and Tanaka, M. and Tanaka, S. and Tejedor, L. A. and Telezhinsky, I. and Temnikov, P. and Terada, Y. and Tescaro, D. and Teshima, M. and Testa, V. and Thoudam, S. and Tokanai, F. and Torres, D. F. and Torresi, E. and Tosti, G. and Townsley, C. and Travnicek, P. and Trichard, C. and Trifoglio, M. and Tsujimoto, S. and Vagelli, V. and Vallania, P. and Valore, L. and van Driel, W. and van Eldik, C. and Vandenbroucke, J. and Vassiliev, V. and Vecchi, M. and Vercellone, S. and Vergani, S. and Vigorito, C. and Vorobiov, S. and Vrastil, M. and Vázquez Acosta, M. L. and Wagner, S. J. and Wagner, R. and Wakely, S. P. and Walter, R. and Ward, J. E. and Watson, J. J. and Weinstein, A. and White, M. and White, R. and Wierzcholska, A. and Wilcox, P. and Williams, D. A. and Wischnewski, R. and Wojcik, P. and Yamamoto, T. and Yamamoto, H. and Yamazaki, R. and Yanagita, S. and Yang, L. and Yoshida, T. and Yoshida, M. and Yoshiike, S. and Yoshikoshi, T. and Zacharias, M. and Zampieri, L. and Zanin, R. and Zavrtanik, M. and Zavrtanik, D. and Zdziarski, A. and Zech, A. and Zechlin, H. and Zhdanov, V. and Ziegler, A. and Zorn, J. (2017) 'Prospects for Cherenkov telescope array observations of the young supernova remnant RX J1713.7−3946.', Astrophysical journal., 840 (2). p. 74.
We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX J1713.7−3946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovered in very high energy (VHE) gamma rays. Special attention is paid to exploring possible spatial (anti)correlations of gamma rays with emission at other wavelengths, in particular X-rays and CO/H i emission. We present a series of simulated images of RX J1713.7−3946 for CTA based on a set of observationally motivated models for the gamma-ray emission. In these models, VHE gamma rays produced by high-energy electrons are assumed to trace the nonthermal X-ray emission observed by XMM-Newton, whereas those originating from relativistic protons delineate the local gas distributions. The local atomic and molecular gas distributions are deduced by the NANTEN team from CO and H i observations. Our primary goal is to show how one can distinguish the emission mechanism(s) of the gamma rays (i.e., hadronic versus leptonic, or a mixture of the two) through information provided by their spatial distribution, spectra, and time variation. This work is the first attempt to quantitatively evaluate the capabilities of CTA to achieve various proposed scientific goals by observing this important cosmic particle accelerator.

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