Showing posts with label supernovae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supernovae. Show all posts

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The 22Na puzzle

There is this elusive gamma line at 1275 keV in 22Na, thought to come from novae in detectable amounts ... but it has not been observed! Why?
Are the models wrong?
Are the instruments not sensitive enough? ... this seems to be the most probable answer so far (i.e. a budget - related issue?)