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Gamma rays from cosmic radioactivities

Diehl, Roland; Hartmann, Dieter H.; Prantzos, Nikos

Gamma rays from radioactive byproducts of cosmic nucleosynthesis are direct messengers from nuclear processes taking place in various cosmic sites, and can be measured with telescopes operated in space. Due to low detector sensitivity, up until now, only a handful of sources have been detected in that electromagnetic window. Cobalt lines from SN19…