High-energy cosmic rays from compact galactic star clusters: particle fluxes and anisotropy
Abstract
It has been shown that supernova blast waves interacting with winds from massive stars in compact star clusters may be capable of producing cosmic-ray (CR) protons to above eV. We give a brief description of the colliding-shock-flows mechanism and look at generalizations of the diffusion of ~ 100 PeV CRs in the turbulent galactic magnetic field present in the galactic disk. We calculate the temporal evolution of the CR anisotropy from a possible distribution of young compact massive star clusters assuming the sources are intermittent on time scales of a few million years, i.e., comparable to their residence time in the Milky Way. Within the confines of our model, we determine the galactic/extra-galactic fraction of high-energy CRs resulting in anisotropies consistent with observed values. We find that galactic star clusters may contribute a substantial fraction of ~ 100 PeV CRs without producing anisotropies above observed limits.
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@article{arxiv.1906.08813,
title = {High-energy cosmic rays from compact galactic star clusters: particle fluxes and anisotropy},
author = {A. M. Bykov and M. E. Kalyashova and D. C. Ellison and S. M. Osipov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08813},
year = {2019}
}
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Submitted to Advances in Space Research, 14 pages, 6 figures