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In recent years, a number of experiments have been conducted with the goal of studying cosmic rays at GeV to TeV energies. This is a particularly interesting regime from the perspective of indirect dark matter detection. To draw reliable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Melanie Simet , Dan Hooper

The acceleration of cosmic ray particles and their propagation in the Milky Way and the heliosphere tangle with each other, leading to complexity and degeneracy of the modeling of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). The recent measurements of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Cheng-Rui Zhu , Qiang Yuan , Da-Ming Wei

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

Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission is a key probe of cosmic rays (CRs) distribution within the Galaxy. However, the discrepancies between observations and theoretical model expectations highlight the need for refined uncertainty estimates. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Han-Xiang Hu , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

Accelerated particles are ubiquitous in the Cosmos and play a fundamental role in many processes governing the evolution of the Universe at all scales, from the sub-AU ones relevant for the formation and evolution of stars and planets to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-27 Elena Amato , Sabrina Casanova

Supernova remnants are believed to be the main sources of galactic Cosmic Rays (CR). Within this framework, particles are accelerated at supernova remnant shocks and then released in the interstellar medium. The mechanism through which CRs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-19 Lara Nava , Stefano Gabici , Alexandre Marcowith , Giovanni Morlino , Vladimir S. Ptuskin

We examine the question of the origin of the Galactic cosmic-rays (GCRs) in the light of the data available at the highest energy end of the spectrum. We argue that the data of the Pierre Auger Observatory and of the KASCADE-Grande…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Etienne Parizot

Our understanding of the intensity distribution of the interstellar radiation background is based on the observational data from IRAS, COBE-FIRAS and Planck. The intensity of this radiation field increases rapidly towards the Galactic plane…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 Nayantara Gupta

Diffuse emission from the Milky Way dominates the gamma-ray sky. About 80% of the high-energy luminosity of the Milky Way comes from processes in the interstellar medium. The Galactic diffuse emission traces interactions of energetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-25 T. A. Porter , S. W. Digel , I. A. Grenier , I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong

Cosmic rays up to at least PeV energies are usually described in the framework of an elementary scenario that involves acceleration by objects that are located in the disk of the Milky Way, such as supernova remnants or massive star-forming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Tibaldo , S. W. Digel

Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical feedback strongly suggest that cosmic rays (CRs) may be crucially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Mateusz Ruszkowski , Christoph Pfrommer

The Sun stands out as the closest and clearest astrophysical accelerator of cosmic rays, while other objects within and beyond the galaxy remain enigmatic. It is probable that the cosmic ray spectrum and mass components from these celestial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-21 Yu-Hua Yao , Yi-Qing Guo , Wei Liu

The propagation of high-energy cosmic rays in the Galaxy is investigated. Solutions of a diffusion model are combined with numerically calculated trajectories of particles. The resulting escape path length and interaction path length are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg R. Hoerandel , Nikolai N. Kalmykov , Aleksei V. Timokhin

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 are constructing a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron radiation.…

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

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

Recent results obtained by analyzing diffuse gamma-ray emission detected by Fermi-LAT show a substantial variation of the CR spectrum as a function of the distance from the Galactic Center. For energies up to tens of GeV, the CR proton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 G. Morlino

The unprecedented quality of the data collected by the AMS-02 experiment onboard the International Space Station allowed us to address subtle questions concerning the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. Here we discuss the implications…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 Carmelo Evoli , Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi

A key goal of heliophysics is to understand how cosmic rays propagate in the solar system's complex, dynamic environment. One observable is solar modulation, i.e., how the flux and spectrum of cosmic rays changes as they propagate inward.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-22 Jung-Tsung Li , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter

This work presents preliminary results for the time-dependent cosmic-ray propagation in the Galaxy by a fully 3-dimensional Monte Carlo simulation. The distribution of cosmic-rays (both protons and helium nuclei) in the Galaxy is studied on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-05 C. -Y. Huang , M. Pohl