Energetic Particles of Cosmic Accelerators I: Galactic Accelerators
Abstract
The high-energy universe has revealed that energetic particles are ubiquitous in the cosmos and play a vital role in the cultivation of cosmic environments on all scales. Energetic particles in our own galaxy, galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), engage in a complex interplay with the interstellar medium and magnetic fields in the galaxy, giving rise to many of its key characteristics. This White Paper is the first of a two-part series highlighting the most well-known high-energy cosmic accelerators and contributions that MeV gamma-ray astronomy will bring to understanding their energetic particle phenomena. The focus of this white paper is galactic cosmic rays, supernova remnants, protostellar jets and superbubbles, and colliding wind binaries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.04634,
title = {Energetic Particles of Cosmic Accelerators I: Galactic Accelerators},
author = {Tonia M. Venters and Kenji Hamaguchi and Terri J. Brandt and Marco Ajello and Harsha Blumer and Michael Briggs and Paolo Coppi and Filippo D'Ammando and Michaël De Becker and Brian Fields and Sylvain Guiriec and John W. Hewitt and Brian Humensky and Stanley D. Hunter and Hui Li and Amy Y. Lien and Francesco Longo and Alexandre Marcowith and Julie McEnery and Roopesh Ojha and Vasiliki Pavlidou and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Marcos Santander and John A. Tomsick and Zorawar Wadiasingh and Roland Walter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04634},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
9 pages (including references), 2 figures; Submitted to the Astro2020 call for science white papers