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This paper analyzes astrophysical scenarios that may be detected at the upper end of the energy range of the Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), as a result of cosmic-ray (CR) diffusion in the interstellar medium (ISM). Hadronic…

Recent data from CREAM seem to confirm early suggestions that primary cosmic ray (CR) spectra at few TeV/nucleon are harder than in the 10-100 GeV range. Also, helium and heavier nuclei spectra appear systematically harder than the proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 Fiorenza Donato , Pasquale D. Serpico

Gamma-ray observations of nearby radio-line-emitting gas structures in the interstellar medium allow us to probe the spectrum of cosmic rays (CRs). In this paper, we analysed Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) gamma-ray observations of three…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-15 D. A. Prokhorov , S. Colafrancesco

We present a novel interpretation of the $\gamma$-ray diffuse emission measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. in the Galactic center (GC) region and the Galactic ridge (GR). In the first part we perform a data-driven analysis based on PASS8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 D. Gaggero , D. Grasso , A. Marinelli , M. Taoso , A. Urbano

Gamma rays are produced by cosmic ray (CR) protons interacting with the particles at solar photosphere and by cosmic ray electrons and positrons (CRes) via inverse Compton scattering of solar photons. The former come from the solar disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Vahe' Petrosian , Elena Orlando , Andrew Strong

Nonlinear kinetic theory of cosmic ray (CR) acceleration in supernova remnants is employed to calculate CR spectra. The magnetic field in SNRs is assumed to be significantly amplified by the efficiently accelerating nuclear CR component. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Voelk

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 diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-23 LAT Collaboration

We compute cosmic ray (CR) nuclei, proton, antiproton, electron and positron spectra below 1 TeV at Earth by means of a detailed transport description in the galaxy and in the solar system. CR spectra below 10 GeV are strongly modified by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-21 Luca Maccione

We derive observational consequences of the hypothesis that cosmic rays (CR's) of energy $>10^{19}eV$ originate in the same cosmological objects producing gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). Inter-galactic magnetic fields $\gtrsim 10^{-12} G$ are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jordi Miralda-Escude , Eli Waxman

The propagation of cosmic-ray protons in the Galaxy is discussed under the framework of a three dimensional convection-diffusion model. Starting with the assumption of a uniform and continuous distribution of cosmic-ray sources injecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thoudam Satyendra

A shock-accelerated particle flux \propto p^-s, where p is the particle momentum, follows from simple theoretical considerations of cosmic-ray acceleration at nonrelativistic shocks followed by rigidity-dependent escape into the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Charles D. Dermer

Recently, gamma-ray telescopes AGILE and Fermi observed several middle-aged supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds. It is likely that their gamma rays arise from the decay of neutral pions produced by the inelastic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Yutaka Ohira , Kohta Murase , Ryo Yamazaki

An observation-based Galactic Cosmic Ray (GCR) spectral model for heavy nuclei is developed. Zhao and Qin (J. Geophys. Res. Space Phys.118, 1837(2013)) proposed an empirical elemental GCR spectra model for nuclear charge 5-28 over the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Shuai Fu , LingLing Zhao , Gary P. Zank , Miao Wang , Yong Jiang

The recent observations revealed that the cosmic-ray (CR) proton spectrum showed a complex structure: the hardening at $\rm \sim 200~GeV$ and softening at $\rm \sim 10~TeV$. However, so far the physical origins of this spectral feature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Lin Nie , Yang Liu , Zejun Jiang

With experimental results of AMS on the spectra of cosmic ray (CR) $e^{-}$, $e^{+}$, $e^{-}+e^{+}$ and positron fraction, as well as new measurements of CR $e^{-}+e^{+}$ flux by HESS, one can better understand the CR lepton ($e^{-}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-29 Shi Zhao-Dong , Liu Siming

Low-frequency radio observations of diffuse synchrotron radiation offer a unique vantage point for investigating the intricate relationship between gas and magnetic fields in the formation of structures within the Galaxy, spanning from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-29 Andrea Bracco , Marco Padovani , Daniele Galli

We use the GALPROP model for cosmic-ray (CR) propagation to obtain our best prediction of the Galactic component of gamma rays, and show that away from the Galactic plane it gives an accurate prediction of the observed EGRET intensities. On…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Context: Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission from cosmic ray (CR) protons scattering off the gas in the intracluster and intergalactic medium (ICM and IGM) remains out of reach for current observations. Detecting this emission would provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-20 Ludwig M. Böss , Ildar Khabibullin , Daniel Karner , Klaus Dolag , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Elena Hernandez-Martinez , Jenny G. Sorce

It is believed that the observed diffuse gamma ray emission from the galactic plane is the result of interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar gas. Such emission can be amplified if cosmic rays penetrate into dense molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefano Gabici , Felix Aharonian , Pasquale Blasi