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Energetics of High-Energy Cosmic Radiations

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-05-09 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The luminosity densities of high-energy cosmic radiations are studied to find connections among the various components, including high-energy neutrinos measured with IceCube and gamma rays with the Fermi satellite. Matching the cosmic-ray energy generation rate density in a GeV-TeV range estimated for Milky Way with the ultrahigh-energy component requires a power-law index of the spectrum, scr2.12.2s_{\rm cr}\approx2.1-2.2, somewhat harder than scr2.32.4s_{\rm cr}\approx2.3-2.4 for the local index derived from the AMS-02 experiment. The soft GeV-TeV cosmic-ray spectrum extrapolated to higher energies can be compatible with PeV cosmic rays inferred from neutrino measurements, but overshoots the CR luminosity density to explain GeV-TeV gamma rays. The extrapolation from ultrahigh energies with a hard spectrum, on the other hand, can be consistent with both neutrinos and gamma-rays. These point towards either reacceleration of galactic cosmic rays or the presence of extragalactic sources with a hard spectrum. We discuss possible cosmic-ray sources that can be added.

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@article{arxiv.1806.04194,
  title  = {Energetics of High-Energy Cosmic Radiations},
  author = {Kohta Murase and Masataka Fukugita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.04194},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in PRD. Results and conclusions unchanged