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We use the GALPROP cosmic ray (CR) framework to model the Galactic CR distributions and associated non-thermal diffuse emissions up to PeV energies. We consider ensembles of discrete, finite lifetime CR sources, e.g.\ supernova remnants…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-29 P. D. Marinos , T. A. Porter , G. P. Rowell , G. Jóhannesson , I. V. Moskalenko

A new numerical model of particle propagation in the Galaxy has been developed, which allows the study of cosmic-ray and gamma-ray production and propagation in 2D or 3D, including a full reaction network. This is a further development of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

High energy collisions of cosmic ray (CR) nuclei with interstellar gas are believed to be the mechanism producing the majority of CR antiprotons. The distinguishing spectral shape with a maximum at 2 GeV and a sharp decrease towards lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , J. F. Ormes , M. S. Potgieter , U. W. Langner

High-energy collisions of cosmic-ray nuclei with interstellar gas are believed to be the mechanism producing the majority of cosmic ray antiprotons. Due to the kinematics of the process they are created with a nonzero momentum; the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-28 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , J. F. Ormes , M. S. Potgieter

Diffuse emission is produced in energetic cosmic ray (CR) interactions, mainly protons and electrons, with the interstellar gas and radiation field and contains the information about particle spectra in distant regions of the Galaxy. It may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Igor V. Moskalenko , Andrew W. Strong , Seth W. Digel , Troy A. Porter

On-going measurements of the cosmic radiation (nuclear, electronic, and gamma-ray) are shedding new light on cosmic-ray physics. A comprehensive picture of these data relies on an accurate determination of the transport and source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-08 A. Putze , L. Derome , D. Maurin

The dark sirens method combines gravitational waves and catalogs of galaxies to constrain the cosmological expansion history, merger rates and mass distributions of compact objects, and the laws of gravity. However, the incompleteness of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Konstantin Leyde , Tessa Baker , Wolfgang Enzi

An extensive program for the calculation of galactic cosmic-ray propagation has been developed. This is a continuation of the work described in Strong & Youssefi (1995). The main motivation for developing this code is the prediction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

We investigate the effects of the nearby interstellar medium (ISM) on the locally measured cosmic-ray (CR) spectra. Using the GALPROP code we explore how variations in the local gas and source distributions affect spectral features at low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-26 Troy A. Porter , Igor V. Moskalenko , Alan C. Cummings , Gudlaugur Johannesson

Cosmic rays (CRs) and magnetic fields may be dynamically important in driving large-scale galactic outflows from rapidly star-forming galaxies. We construct two-dimensional axisymmetric models of the local starburst and super-wind galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Benjamin J. Buckman , Tim Linden , Todd A. Thompson

Nowadays, the calculation of the Galactic Cosmic Rays diffusion coefficient with direct microscopic numerical simulations is a widespread approach. In this work, we investigated the numerical limits for such calculations and demonstrated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Vladimir Yurovsky , Ilya Kudryashov

The cosmic-ray propagation code GALPROP has recently been enhanced in the areas of Galactic magnetic field and synchrotron radiation. A full 3D treatment is now implemented. We describe these enhancements and show applications to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-06 E. Orlando , A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , T. A. Porter , G. Johannesson , S. W. Digel

We review numerical methods for simulations of cosmic ray (CR) propagation on galactic and larger scales. We present the development of algorithms designed for phenomenological and self-consistent models of CR propagation in kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-17 M. Hanasz , A. Strong , P. Girichidis

The spectral data on the diffuse Galactic gamma-rays, at medium and high latitudes (|b| > 10) and energies of 1-100 GeV, recently published by the Fermi Collaboration are used to produce a novel study on the gamma-ray emissivity in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-28 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

Numerical modeling of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) penetration through the heliosphere to the vicinity of the Sun is considered. Galactic cosmic rays are charged particles with energies exceeding 10 MeV/nucl., originating from far beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 D. A. Shestakov , V. V. Izmodenov

We model the transport of cosmic ray nuclei in the Galaxy by means of a new numerical code. Differently from previous numerical models we account for a generic spatial distribution of the diffusion coefficient. We found that in the case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 C. Evoli , D. Gaggero , D. Grasso , L. Maccione

The landscape of high- and ultra-high-energy astrophysics has changed in the last decade, in large part owing to the inflow of high-quality data collected by present cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino observatories. At the dawn of the…

We propose a brand-new formalism for the propagation of relativistic cosmic ray (CR) particles. The propagation of CRs has often been described using the diffusion approximation, which has the drawback that the propagation speed of CRs near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-22 Norita Kawanaka , Rohta Takahashi

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) play a crucial role in galaxy formation and evolution by altering gas dynamics and chemistry across multiple scales. Typical numerical simulations of CR transport assume a constant diffusion coefficient for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Sarah Thiele , Romain Teyssier

Local interstellar spectra (LIS) for protons, helium and antiprotons are built using the most recent experimental results combined with the state-of-the-art models for propagation in the Galaxy and heliosphere. Two propagation packages,…