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Precise measurements of the boron-to-carbon and boron-to-oxygen ratios by DAMPE show clear hardenings around $100$ GeV/n, which provide important implications on the production, propagation, and interaction of Galactic cosmic rays. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Peng-Xiong Ma , Zhi-Hui Xu , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Zhong Fan , Igor V. Moskalenko , Chuan Yue

Recent measurements of the cosmic ray (CR) antiproton flux have been shown to challenge existing CR propagation models. It was shown that the reacceleration models designed to match secondary to primary nuclei ratios (e.g., B/C) produce too…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , J. F. Ormes , S. G. Mashnik

The secondary-to-primary B/C ratio is widely used to study the cosmic ray (CR) propagation processes in the Galaxy. It is usually assumed that secondary nuclei such as Li-Be-B are entirely generated by collisions of heavier CR nuclei with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-24 N. Tomassetti , F. Donato

Based on the diffusion-halo model for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation, including stochastic reacceleration due to collisions with hydromagnetic turbulence, we study the behavior of the electron component and the diffuse $\gamma$-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 T. Shibata , T. Ishikawa , S. Sekiguchi

The recent discovery of diffuse, VHE gamma radiation from the Galactic center ridge by the H.E.S.S. telescope allow for the first time the direct determination of parameters of galactic cosmic ray propagation models. In this paper we show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Büsching , O. C. de Jager , J. Snyman

We have measured the intensity and spectra of the cosmic ray secondary isotopes 2H and 3He and the primary isotopes H and 4He between 20-85 MeV/nuc during a 5 year time period after Voyager 1 (V1) crossed the heliopause. The data reported…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 W. R. Webber , N. Lal , B. Heikkila

We report calculations of cosmic-ray proton, nuclei, antiproton, electron and positron energy spectra within a "two-halo model" of diffusive transport. The two halos represent a simple, physically consistent generalization of the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-20 Nicola Tomassetti

We present novel constraints on cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy using the recent precise measurements of proton and helium spectra from AMS-02, together with preliminary AMS-02 data on the antiproton over proton ratio. To explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Michael Korsmeier , Alessandro Cuoco

Cosmic rays (CRs) are an integral component of the interstellar medium, producing broadband emission while interacting with other Galactic matter components like the interstellar gas or magnetic fields. In addition to observations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 Julia Thaler , Ralf Kissmann , Olaf Reimer

Recent measurements of the cosmic ray (CR) antiproton flux have been shown to challenge existing CR propagation models. It was shown that the reacceleration models designed to match secondary to primary nuclei ratios (e.g., boron/carbon)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , S. G. Mashnik , J. F. Ormes

Measurement of the chemical and isotopic composition of cosmic rays is essential for the precise understanding of their propagation in the galaxy. While the model parameters are mainly determined using the B/C ratio, the study of extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-11 01 Collaboration

We use our numerical code, DRAGON, to study the implications of recent data on our knowledge of the propagation properties of cosmic ray nuclei in the Galaxy. We show that B/C (as well as N/O and C/O) data, including those recently taken by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

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

The propagation of high-energy cosmic rays through giant molecular clouds constitutes a fundamental process in astronomy and astrophysics. The diffusion of cosmic-rays through these magnetically turbulent environments is often studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia , Elizabeth Todd , Fred Adams

We have developed a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray (CR) origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

The stable secondary-to-primary flux ratios of cosmic rays (CRs), represented by the boron-to-carbon ratio (B/C), are the main probes of the Galactic CR propagation. However, the fluorine-to-silicon ratio (F/Si) predicted by the CR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang

A comparison of the Helium and Carbon interstellar spectra measured at Voyager in the local interstellar medium leads to a different interpretation than a comparison of the Hydrogen to Helium spectra. This is because the He/C ratio is…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 W. R. Webber , P. R. Higbie

I present the first public releases (v3.4 and v3.5) of the USINE code for cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy (https://lpsc.in2p3.fr/usine). It contains several semi-analytical propagation models previously used in the literature…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-28 D. Maurin

High resolution line profiles are presented for selected forbidden and permitted emission lines of a sample of galactic B[e]-type stars. The spectral resolution corresponds to 5-7 km/s with the exception of some line profiles which were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. -J. Zickgraf

Cosmic ray (CR) physics has entered a precision-driven era. With the latest AMS-02 nuclei data (boron-to-carbon ratio, proton flux, helium flux and antiproton-to-proton ratio), we perform a global fitting and constrain the primary source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Jia-Shu Niu , Tianjun Li