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Effect of nearby supernova remnants on local Cosmic-Rays

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We study in detail the effect of different particle release times from sources on the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum below 1015eV10^{15}eV in the Galaxy. We discuss different possible forms of particle injection such as burst-like injection, continuous injection for a finite time, injection from a stationary source and energy dependent injection. When applied to the nearby known supernova remnants, we find that the observed CR anisotropy data favour the burst-like particle injection model for the CR diffusion coefficient D(E)EaD(E)\propto E^a with a=0.30.6a=0.3-0.6 in the local region. In the study we have also found that the contribution of the sources G114.3+0.3 and Monogem dominate if the observed anisotropy is a result of the effect of the nearby sources. Further study shows that we should not neglect the contribution of the undetected old sources to the local CR anisotropy.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0703176,
  title  = {Effect of nearby supernova remnants on local Cosmic-Rays},
  author = {Satyendra Thoudam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0703176},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS accepted, minor text corrections