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We present an analysis of simultaneous multifrequency measurements of the Galactic emission in the 1-10 GHz range with 18 degrees, angular resolution taken from a high altitude site. Our data yield a determination of the synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Platania , M. Bensadoun , M. Bersanelli , G. De Amici , A. Kogut , S. Levin , D. Maino , G. F. Smoot

The $\gamma$-ray emission of star-forming (SF) galaxies is attributed to hadronic interactions of cosmic ray (CR) protons with the interstellar gas and contributions from CR electrons via bremsstrahlung and inverse Compton (IC) scattering.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis , Georg Winner

(Abridged) The inner couple hundred pcs of our Galaxy is characterized by significant amount of synchrotron-emitting gas, which appears to co-exist with a large reservoir of molecular gas. The spatial correlation between fluorescent Fe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Muno , M. Wardle , D. C. Lis

A multichannel analysis of cosmic ray electron and positron spectra and of the diffuse synchrotron emission of the Galaxy is performed by using the DRAGON code. This study is aimed at probing the interstellar electron source spectrum down…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

We investigate the possibility that radio halos of clusters of galaxies are caused by synchrotron emission of cosmic ray electrons (CRe), which were produced by cosmic ray protons (CRp) interacting hadronically with the intra-cluster medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Klaus Dolag , Torsten A. Ensslin

Dark matter annihilations in the Galactic halo inject relativistic electrons and positrons which in turn generate a synchrotron radiation when interacting with the galactic magnetic field. We calculate the synchrotron flux for various dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-11 N. Fornengo , R. A. Lineros , M. Regis , M. Taoso

Various studies firmly establish the fact that gamma-ray observations can act as a unique probe to detect the possible cosmic ray (CR) sources, study the CR density distribution and explore the average properties of interstellar medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Sayan Biswas , Nayantara Gupta

An extinction-free estimator of the star-formation rate (SFR) of galaxies is critical for understanding the high-redshift universe. To this end, the nearly linear, tight correlation of far-infrared (FIR) and radio luminosity of star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-22 Maria Werhahn , Christoph Pfrommer , Philipp Girichidis

The thermal plasma of galaxy clusters lost most of its information on how structure formation proceeded as a result of dissipative processes. In contrast, non-equilibrium distributions of cosmic rays (CR) preserve the information about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christoph Pfrommer , Torsten A. Ensslin , Volker Springel

Synchrotron emission is one of few observable tracers of galactic magnetic fields (\textbf{B}) and cosmic rays (CRs). Much of our understanding of \textbf{B} in galaxies comes from utilizing synchrotron observations in conjunction with…

We introduce a novel diffusion model for the propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) that incorporates an anisotropic diffusion tensor of a general form within a realistically modeled large-scale Galactic magnetic field. The parameters of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 V. D. Borisov , V. O. Yurovsky , I. A. Kudryashov

The spatial diffusion of energetic particles in a magnetic field composed of a large-scale background and a small-scale turbulent component should be expected to be anisotropic. While such anisotropic diffusion has been known for quite a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Julien Dörner , Jonas Hellrung , Julia Becker Tjus , Horst Fichtner

Various studies have implied the existence of a gaseous halo around the Galaxy extending out to 100 kpc. Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) that propagate to the halo, either by diffusion or by convection with the possibly existing large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Ruo-Yu Liu , Huirong Yan , Xiang-Yu Wang , Shi Shao , Hui Li

The antiparticle energy spectra of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) have several exciting features such as the unexpected positron excess at $E\sim$10-200\,GeV and the remarkably hard antiproton flux at $E\sim$\,60--450\,GeV recently measured by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-31 Jie Feng , Nicola Tomassetti , Alberto Oliva

Fluctuations in the Galactic synchrotron emission can be traced by the angular power spectrum of radio maps at low multipoles. At frequencies below few GHz, large-scale anisotropies are mainly induced by magnetic field turbulence. By…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Regis

Analyses of TeV-PeV cosmic ray (CR) diffusion around their sources usually assume either isotropic diffusion or anisotropic diffusion due to the regular Galactic magnetic field. We show that none of them are adequate on distances smaller…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-29 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

An extensive program for the calculation of galactic cosmic-ray propagation has been developed. Primary and secondary nucleons, primary and secondary electrons, and secondary positrons are included. The basic spatial propagation mechanisms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , V. Schoenfelder

Synchrotron emission pervades the Galactic plane at low radio frequencies, originating from cosmic ray electrons interacting with the Galactic magnetic field. Using a low-frequency radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), we…

We present 3D models of the Galactic magnetic field including regular and turbulent components, and of the distribution of matter in the Galaxy including relativistic electrons and dust grains. By integrating along the line of sight, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-03-26 L. Fauvet , J. F. Macías-Pérez , F. X. Désert

The diffuse gamma-ray background radiation (GBR) at high Galactic latitudes could be dominated by inverse Compton scattering (ICS) of cosmic ray (CR) electrons on the cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) and on starlight (SL) in an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arnon Dar