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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

We constrain the energy at which the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays occurs by computing the anisotropy at Earth of cosmic rays emitted by Galactic sources. Since the diffusion approximation starts to loose its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-17 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz , G. Sigl

We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction distribution with data collected by the HAWC and IceCube observatories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres at the same median primary particle energy of 10 TeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-28 HAWC Collaboration , A. U. Abeysekara , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , J. D. Álvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , C. Brisbois , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , C. De León , E. De la Fuente , S. Dichiara , M. A. DuVernois , C. Espinoza , D. W. Fiorino , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , J. A. García-González , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , B. Hona , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , A. Lara , H. León Vargas , G. Luis-Raya , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , J. Martínez-Castro , O. Martinez , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , J. Pretz , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , H. Salazar , F. 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Terliuk , S. Tilav , M. N. Tobin , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , B. Ty , E. Unger , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , M. Usner , J. Vandenbroucke , W. Van Driessche , D. van Eijk , N. van Eijndhoven , S. Vanheule , J. van Santen , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , M. Wallraff , N. Wandkowsky , F. D. Wandler , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , S. Westerhoff , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , L. Wille , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , M. Wolf , J. Wood , T. R. Wood , E. Woolsey , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan

Cosmic rays in the energy range from about 10's GeV to several 100's TeV are observed on Earth with an energy-dependent anisotropy of order 0.01-0.1%, and a consistent topology that appears to significantly change at higher energy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Desiati , A. Lazarian

The energy spectra and anisotropies are very important probes of the origin of cosmic rays. Recent measurements show that complicated but very interesting structures exist, at similar energies, in both the spectra and energy-dependent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Qing Luo , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Qing Guo

We study the role of local interstellar turbulence in shaping the large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of TeV-PeV cosmic-rays (CRs) on the sky. Assuming pitch-angle diffusion of CRs in a magnetic flux tube containing the Earth,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Gwenael Giacinti , John G. Kirk

Recently, AMS-02 reported their observed results of cosmic rays(CRs). In addition to the AMS-02 data, we add HESS data to estimate the spectra of CR electrons and the diffuse gamma rays above TeV. In the conventional diffusion model, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-06 Ding Chen , Jing Huang , Hong-Bo Jin

The cosmic electrons and positrons have been measured with unprecedented statistics up to several hundreds GeV, thus permitting to explore the role that close single sources can have in shaping the flux at different energies. In the present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-01 Silvia Manconi , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

A TeV spectral break in the total flux of cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs) at which the spectral power index softens from $\sim 3$ to $\sim 4$ has been observed by H.E.S.S. and recently confirmed by DAMPE with a high significance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Yu-Chen Ding , Nan Li , Chun-Cheng Wei , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

Simulations of the cosmic-ray (CR) anisotropy down to TeV energies are presented, using turbulence parameters consistent with those inferred from observations of the interstellar medium. We compute the angular power spectra $C_{\ell}$ of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-15 Wenyi Bian , Gwenael Giacinti , Brian Reville

The spectral hardenings of cosmic ray nuclei above $\sim 200$ GV followed by softenings around 10 TV, the knee of the all-particle spectrum around PeV energies, as well as the pattern change of the amplitude and phase of the large-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-13 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan

We calculate the shape of the large-scale anisotropy of TeV-PeV cosmic-rays (CR) in different models of the interstellar turbulence. In general, the large-scale CR anisotropy (CRA) is not a dipole, and its shape can be used as a new probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 Gwenael Giacinti , John G. Kirk

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 local sources, such as Geminga SNR, may play important role for the anomaly of proton, electron and anisotropy in the past works. In fact, there exists twelve SNRs around solar system within $1$ kpc. One question is that can other SNRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Qing Luo , Bing-qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Shu-wang Cui , Yi-qing Guo

The propagation of cosmic rays (CRs) in turbulent interstellar magnetic fields is typically described as a spatial diffusion process. This formalism predicts only a small deviation from an isotropic CR distribution in the form of a dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-22 Markus Ahlers

Both the acceleration of cosmic rays (CR) in supernova remnant shocks and their subsequent propagation through the random magnetic field of the Galaxy deem to result in an almost isotropic CR spectrum. Yet the MILAGRO TeV observatory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-03 M. A. Malkov , P. H. Diamond , L. 'O. C. Drury , R. Z. Sagdeev

Understanding the acceleration of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays is one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. In this short review, we summarize the general observational constraints on their composition, spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Noemie Globus , Roger Blandford

We calculate the diffusion coefficients of charged cosmic rays (CR) propagating in regular and turbulent magnetic fields. If the magnetic field is dominated by an isotropic turbulent component, we find that CRs reside too long in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-24 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

The arrival directions of multi-TeV cosmic rays show significant anisotropies at small angular scales. It has been argued that this small scale structure is reflecting the local, turbulent magnetic field in the presence of a global dipole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 Philipp Mertsch , Markus Ahlers

The arrival directions of multi-TeV cosmic rays show significant anisotropies at small angular scales. It has been argued that this small-scale structure can naturally arise from cosmic ray scattering in local turbulent magnetic fields that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Markus Ahlers , Philipp Mertsch