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Although supernova remnants remain the main suspects as sources of Galactic cosmic rays up to the knee, the supernova paradigm still has many loose ends. The weakest point in this construction is the possibility that individual supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 P. Cristofari , P. Blasi , E. Amato

Recent accurate measurements of cosmic-ray (CR) protons and nuclei by ATIC-2, CREAM, and PAMELA reveal: a) unexpected spectral hardening in the spectra of CR species above a few hundred GeV per nucleon, b) a harder spectrum of He compared…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-14 Andrey E. Vladimirov , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko , Troy A. Porter

Recently, Zhang & Liu (2024) proposed a turbulent convection model for multiscale anisotropies of cosmic rays (CRs), with an assumption of isotropic diffusion such that the anisotropies are statistically isotropic. However, this assumption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-26 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu

Simulations of Galactic CR transport were performed with the software GALPROP, with the resulting gamma-ray flux calculated up to the PeV regime. The impact of altering parameters such as the number and distribution of CR sources, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Peter Marinos

It is widely believed that supernova remnants are the best candidate sources for the observed cosmic ray flux up to the knee, i.e. up to ~PeV energies. Indeed, the gamma-ray spectra of some supernova remnants can be well explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Nils Nierstenhoefer , Philipp Graeser , Florian Schuppan , Julia Becker Tjus

We performed numerical calculations to test the suggestion by Desiati & Lazarian (2013) that the anisotropies of TeV cosmic rays may arise from their interactions with the heliosphere. For this purpose, we used a magnetic field model of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Vanessa López-Barquero , S. Xu , P. Desiati , A. Lazarian , N. V. Pogorelov , H. Yan

Cosmic Rays (CRs) interact with the diffuse gas, radiation, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) to produce electromagnetic emissions that are a significant component of the all-sky flux across a broad wavelength range. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 P. D. Marinos , G. P. Rowell , T. A. Porter , G. Jóhannesson

The measurement of the anisotropies of cosmic ray arrival direction provides important informations on the propagation mechanisms and on the identification of their sources. In this paper we report the observation of anisotropy regions at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Giuseppe Di Sciascio , Roberto Iuppa

Recent cosmic-ray measurements have found an anomaly in the cosmic-ray energy spectrum at GeV-TeV energies. Although the origin of the anomaly is not clearly understood, suggested explanations include effect of cosmic-ray source spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Satyendra Thoudam , Jörg R. Hörandel

Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are a fundamental non-thermal component of the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding the transport of super-high-energy particles is essential for interpreting observations of Galactic PeVatrons. Classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Yue Hu

The Fermi-LAT collaboration recently confirmed a discrepancy between the observed longitudinal profile of gamma-ray diffuse emission from the Galaxy and that computed with numerical codes assuming that Cosmic Rays (CRs) are produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 Daniele Gaggero , Carmelo Evoli , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione

If cosmic rays with energies <100 TeV originate in the galaxy and are accelerated in shock waves in shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs), gamma-rays will be produced as the result of proton and electron interactions with the local…

We report results on the broad scale anisotropy of cosmic ray arrival directions in the energy rage from $2 \times 10^{17} eV$ to $10^{20} eV$. The data was taken by the Fly's Eye detector in both monocular and stereo modes of operation. We…

The origin of cosmic rays remains an unresolved fundamental problem in astrophysics. The synergy of multiple observational probes, including the energy spectra, the mass composition, and anisotropy is a viable way to jointly uncover this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo

The Pierre Auger Collaboration discovered, in a solid angle of radius about 18\degree, a local group of cosmic rays having energies in the region E0 \geq 5.5\times1019 eV and coming from the region of the Gen A radio galaxy, whose galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 A. V. Glushkov

Latest precise cosmic-ray (CR) measurements and present gamma-ray observations have started challenging our understanding of CR transport and interaction in the Galaxy. Moreover, because the density of CRs is similar to the density of the…

We simulate the propagation of cosmic rays at ultra-high energies, $\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV, in models of extragalactic magnetic fields in constrained simulations of the local Universe. We use constrained initial conditions with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-08 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Jenny G. Sorce , Stefan Gottlöber

The contribution of Source Cosmic Rays (SCRs), accelerated and still confined in Supernova Remnants (SNRs), to the diffuse high energy \gr emission above 1 GeV from the Galactic disk is studied. The \grs produced by the SCRs have a much…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. G. Berezhko , H. J. Voelk

TeV-range cosmic ray electrons and positrons (CREs) have been directly measured in the search for new physics or unknown astrophysical sources. CREs can inverse-Compton scatter solar photons and boost their energies into gamma ray bands.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Hong-Gang Yang , Yu Gao , Yin-Zhe Ma , Roland M. Crocker
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