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The distances that galactic cosmic ray electrons and positrons can travel are severely limited by energy losses to at most a few kiloparsec, thereby rendering the local spectrum very sensitive to the exact distribution of sources in our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Philipp Mertsch

Recent data from ATIC, CREAM and PAMELA indicate that the cosmic ray energy spectra of protons and nuclei exhibit a remarkable hardening at energies above 100 GeV per nucleon. We propose that the hardening is an interstellar propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-29 N. Tomassetti

The Tibet ASgamma experiment just reported their measurement of sub-PeV diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic disk, with the highest energy up to 957 TeV. These gamma-rays are most likely the hadronic origin by cosmic ray interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Qing Guo

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

Using a three-component, multi-scale diffusion model, we show that the cosmic-ray (CR) proton and helium spectra and the dipole anisotropy can be explained with reasonable parameters. The model includes a nearby source associated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Yiran Zhang , Siming Liu , Houdun Zeng

We present a novel calculation of the spectrum of electrons and positrons from random sources, supernova remnants and pulsars, distributed within the spiral arms of the Galaxy. The pulsar emissivity in terms of electron-positron pairs is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-15 Carmelo Evoli , Elena Amato , Pasquale Blasi , Roberto Aloisio

We perform a consistent modeling of cosmic ray electrons, positrons and of the radio emission of the Galaxy. For the time we reproduce all relevant data sets between 1 GeV and 1 TeV including the recent AMS-02 positron fraction results. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-01 D. Grasso , G. Di Bernardo , C. Evoli , D. Gaggero , L. Maccione

Recent observations show that the cosmic ray nuclei spectra start to harden above 100 GeV, in contradiction with the conventional steady-state cosmic ray model. We had suggested that this anomaly is due to the propagation effect of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Wei Liu , Pierre Salati , Xuelei Chen

Pulsars have been invoked to explain the origin of recently observed high-energy Galactic cosmic-ray positrons. Since the positron propagation distance decreases with energy, the number of pulsars that can contribute to the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Ilias Cholis , Tanvi Karwal , Marc Kamionkowski

At energies above a few TeV, no measurements of the cosmic-ray electron spectrum exist yet. By considering the similarity of air showers induced by electrons and gamma rays as seen by ground-based arrays, we use published limits on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-03 Matthew D. Kistler , Hasan Yuksel

The observations of the total electronic component and the positron fraction in cosmic rays by the FERMI, HESS, ATIC, and PAMELA instruments are studied with analytical propagation models, both for a set of discrete sources and for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 R. Cowsik , B. Burch

The recently observed X-ray synchrotron emission from four supernova remnants (SNR) has strengthened the evidence that cosmic ray electrons are accelerated in SNR. We show, that if this is indeed the case, the local electron spectrum will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Martin Pohl , Joseph A. Esposito

Context: The relation between Galactic cosmic-ray electrons, magnetic fields and synchrotron radiation. Aims: We exploit synchrotron radiation to constrain the low-energy interstellar electron spectrum, using various radio surveys and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-03 A. W. Strong , E. Orlando , T. R. Jaffe

In this paper we fit the observed galactic cosmic ray electron spectrum from a few MeV to 1 TeV. New data from Voyager from 5-60 MeV beyond the heliopause is used along with high energy data from the PAMELA, FERMI and AMS-2 instruments in…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 W. R. Webber

The role of nearby galactic sources, the supernova remnants, in formation of observed energy spectrum and anisotropy of high-energy cosmic rays is studied. The list of these sources is made up based on radio, X-ray and gamma-ray catalogues.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-20 L. G. Sveshnikova , O. N. Strelnikova , V. S. Ptuskin

Conventional cosmic-ray propagation models usually assume an isotropic diffusion coefficient to account for the random deflection of cosmic rays by the turbulent interstellar magnetic field. Such a picture is very successful in explaining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Wei Liu , Su-jie Lin , Hong-bo Hu , Yi-qing Guo , Ai-feng Li

We present a study of the compatibility of some current models of the diffuse Galactic continuum gamma rays with EGRET data. A set of regions sampling the whole sky is chosen to provide a comprehensive range of tests. The range of EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

The precise measurements of energy spectra and anisotropy could help us uncover the local cosmic-ray accelerators. Our recent works have shown that spectral hardening above $200$ GeV in the energy spectra and transition of large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Bing Zhao , Wei Liu , Qiang Yuan , Hong-Bo Hu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Han-Rong Wu , Xun-Xiu Zhou , Yi-Qing Guo

The diffuse $\gamma$-ray spectrum at sub-PeV energy region has been measured for the first time by the Tibet-AS$\gamma$ experiment. It will shed new light on the understanding of origin and propagation of Galactic cosmic rays at very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-11 Pei-pei Zhang , Bing-qiang Qiao , Qiang Yuan , Shu-wang Cui , Yi-qing Guo

Precision measurements by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) on the International Space Station of the primary cosmic-ray electron flux and the positron flux will be discussed. The electron flux and the positron flux each require a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-26 Maura Graziani